Westminster is one of the most successful areas in England for GCSE results, according to new statistics.

The borough had an impressive haul of results this year, with 66.7% of pupils gaining at least five A*-C grades including English and maths.

Kensington & Chelsea students also performed well, with 66.4% of pupils gaining at least five A*-C grades.

However, this figure was down from last year's impressive score of 73.8%.

King Solomon Academy, in Westminster, was the top performing west London school, in terms of GSCE results, with 93% of students achieving five or more A*-C grades in 2015.

The school also had three quarters of its pupils successfully achieving the English Baccalaureate (EBacc).

The EBacc percentage score demonstrates how many pupils achieved a grade C or above in the core academic subjects at Key Stage 4. The core academic subjects are English, maths, science, a language and history or geography.

Gunnersbury Catholic School, in Hounslow, also performed extremely well, with 90% of pupils achieving at least five A*-C grades and 64% of pupils achieving the Ebacc.

Less than half of pupils in Hammersmith & Fulham gained at least five A*-C grades including English and Maths, a big drop from nearly two-thirds achieving this in 2014.

However, The London Oratory school was the borough's best performing school and saw 87% of its pupils achieving the five key A*-C passes. The school also saw 71% of its pupils achieving the EBacc.

According to the statistics, released on Thursday (October 15), pupils in Westminster and Ealing were most likely to make the expected progress levels between finishing primary school and completing their GCSEs.

Across England as a whole, the proportion of pupils gaining at least five A*-C grades at GCSE including English and Maths rose slightly, by 2%.

These figures are based on the results data that awarding organisations supply to the department by August 2015.

The statistics include the vast majority of all pupils' results, but do not take into account the accepted amendment requests made by schools to remove pupils, nor the addition of late results and remarks.

How did your child's school do?

If you want to see how well your local school performed in last year's GCSEs, you can now find out easily using our handy results tracker.

Using results from both 2014 and 2015 for the proportion of pupils gaining at least five A*-C grades, simply search for any school in the area to see how it fared: