The UK’s Daily Mail reported on September 22 that eight pupils from King's School in Grantham, Lincolnshire, are considered as clever as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking after they sat the Mensa test。
Thirty pupils had scores high enough to be admitted to the club of the super-smart。
The school where Sir Isaac Newton studied in 1655 is celebrating after 80 pupils took the test - with the majority missing out on a Mensa place by just a few marks。
Edward Roberts, 16, topped the scores at a staggering 161 points - one point higher than Stephen Hawking and the estimated score of Albert Einstein。
In order to be admitted into Mensa, those tested must score an IQ of 148 – which is the top two percent of the population in the UK – while the average in the country is 100.
John Stevenage, Chief Executive of British Mensa Ltd, praised the result as "excellent". "It is good to see so many pupils from the King's School have demonstrated an IQ in the top two percent of the population, which is an excellent result for the school."