A COLLEGE once branded a failure by Ofsted is celebrating after it was named fourth best in the country.
Riverside and Cronton Sixth Form College achieved the distinction in the latest Department for Education (DfE) league tables, which scored more than 300 colleges on the average number of points per exam their students achieved.
The DfE figures also put the college top locally, above its main competitors for attracting Halton school leavers such as Warrington’s Priestly College, and Carmel College in St Helens.
The news marks a spectacular turnaround for the college, which three years ago scored bottom in six out of eight curriculum areas following an inspection by Government education watchdog Ofsted,
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