More than 40 per cent of the exams sat resulted in A grades – and an unbelievable one in five students achieved three straight As or better.

Delighted principal Stephen Black said that the results continued to consolidate the school’s reputation for academic excellence.

He added: “The grades and success reflects very positively on the hard work and commitment not only of the pupils but also of the staff of the school.

“This particular year group worked very hard and we had a lot of very talented young people who would not have got these results without that ability or their hard work.”

Antrim teenager Harry Cameron is one pupil who notched up an unbelievable four A grades in his exams earning him a place at the prestigious Cambridge University where he will study computers.

“My results weren’t totally unexpected,” said Harry, who studied maths, further maths, physics and chemistry.

He added: “I picked Cambridge because I’ve been there before and it seems like a nice place and has had good reports.”

Not only has Harry all this to look forward to but on Friday he was flying out to Cairo in Egypt to take part in the International Olympiad in Informatics along with his fellow Irish teammates.

This event is an annual informatics competition for secondary school students which takes the form of two days of computer programming and solving problems of an algorithmic nature.

Up to four students compete from each participating country, taking part in the challenge on an individual basis.

“It should be very challenging,” admitted Harry.

He added: "The IOI consists of two days of five hours programming with three algorithmic problems to solve each day. The problems are of a partly mathematical nature and include ideas such as finding the shortest path between two points on a graph, having been given a list of paths connecting various points.