TWO leading schools are celebrating top GCSE grades as thousands of teenagers collect their results this morning.

Lancing College has seen GCSE results improve for the third year in a row while Roedean School has achieved its best ever results.

The success for Roedean, which sees almost 93 per cent of all grades A* to B, comes just a week after the independent school’s best ever A-Level results.

More than one fifth of the school’s pupils sitting exams got at least eight A*s.

Similarly impressive is Lancing College which will have nine pupils opening envelopes to show straight A and A*s including four pupils with A*s in at least ten subjects.

More than four of five results were A* to B with 59 per cent of results A* to A.

Nationally, girls are expected to maintain their dominance over boys across the vast majority of subjects when the full picture of GCSE results is revealed.

It is the final time students will be graded in the traditional manner ahead of Government reforms coming into force in the next academic year.

Last year's results showed 73.1 per cent of female students were awarded at least a C grade compared with just 64.7 per cent of male students.

Education bosses locally will be hoping for a repeat of last year when Brighton and Hove beat the national average by more than eight percentage points while West Sussex schools improved to edge closer to the national average.

The results are released amid worrying reports of a postcode lottery in careers advice with youngsters unaware of the majority of career options open to them.

Youngsters in our region were the best prepared for future careers but were still only aware of a third of career paths open to them, according to research by the City and Guilds.

More than 44 per cent of local youngsters are worried that the economy might affect their ability to find work after school.

Lancing College head master Dominic Oliver said: “Our pupils this year have performed exceptionally well, improving on results from 2014 and 2015.

"They should feel proud of the results that they have achieved."