A CRICKHOWELL school has been named amongst the top ten state secondary schools in Wales.

Crickhowell High School has been listed in The Sunday Times as the 7th best performing school in the country. The top performing schools in Wales have been revealed in Parent Power, The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2022.The 29th edition of Parent Power identifies the highest-achieving schools in the UK, ranked by their examination results from 2017-19.Jackie Parker headteacher at Crickhhowell said: "We are absolutely thrilled and delighted to receive this ranking amongst so many excellent schools in Wales. This achievement reflects the dedication, commitment, hard work and creativity of staff, students, parents, governors and everyone in our wider school community."She added: "I am very privileged to be Headteacher of such a fantastic group of students and staff."As well as assessment of all academic results on a school-by-school basis, Parent Power enables parents to compare the performance of a given school with other schools in the same town, local authority or nationally.There are also live links to school websites and schools’ most recent inspection reports. Parent Power is widely acknowledged as the most authoritative survey of the country’s highest-achieving schools.The rankings in the secondary school league tables are determined by the average percentage of examination entries in the three years, 2017-19, gaining A* to B grades at A-level, which is given a double weighting, and the average percentage of entries returning 9-7 or A* and A grades at GCSE.Only schools that published their results in those years or disclosed them to The Sunday Times have been included in this edition of The Sunday Times Schools Guide, which includes around 1,700 schools. Examination outcomes from 2020 and 2021 have not been used in determining this year’s Parent Power rankings.The Sunday Times Schools Guide, Parent Power, was first published in 1993. All schools are ranked by the latest available public examination data.