Teenager Danielle Farrington has every reason to celebrate this Cup Match ¿ she has just scored a result that places her in the top six percent of International Baccalaureate students worldwide.

The 18-year-old, from Paget, is one of 23 Bermuda High School (BHS) students awarded full IB diplomas this year. Twenty six students sat the full diploma exams, giving a pass rate of more than 88 percent, which is above the world average. All thirty students in the class of 2007 received IB certificates.

Danielle was the Pembroke private school's top scorer and she now intends to take up a place at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

She said: "I got pretty much what I was predicted by the teachers but I was surprised just because you never know what you are going to get. It's been a hard year."

Other IB graduates from BHS are going on to Johns Hopkins University, Edinburgh University, University of Toronto, University of Virginia, Guelph University, York University, University of Exeter, South Carolina College of Art and Design, Dalhousie, St Mary's and other colleges.

Principal Roy Napier said: "Warmest congratulations to all students and teachers on the successful completion of the highly acclaimed, internationally recognised IB diploma and certificate programmes. BHS continues to confirm its mission of educating students to the highest international standards by obtaining excellent results in the demanding academic programme of the International Baccalaureate organisation through the IB Diploma programme."

Twelve students out of 16 who sat the full IB diploma at Warwick Academy passed, giving the school a success rate of 75 percent. This was the second year students at the school have taken the IB.

Forty two students attempted five or six individual subject certificate entries and the pass rate at this level was 100 per cent.

The school's top IB scorer was Katy Lennox, daughter of headmaster Robert Lennox. He said students and staff had made a "tremendous effort" this year. "The world average pass-rate at diploma level is the same as ours and at certificate level we are soundly ahead, by about 30 percent.

"We are now solidly in the company of good schools across the world who follow this curriculum."