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Key stage 4 · 2025/26 · provisional

GCSE results 2026 by school

3,261 mainstream state secondary schools with 30 or more pupils. Median school: Attainment 8 46.0. Provisional; revised figures follow in early 2027.

Median Attainment 8, every local authority

DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisional

East Midlands

  1. Rutland 49.7
  2. Leicester 49.6
  3. Nottinghamshire 46.8
  4. Leicestershire 46.7
  5. North Northamptonshire 45.0
  6. West Northamptonshire 44.8
  7. Nottingham 44.1
  8. Derbyshire 43.8
  9. Derby 43.0
  10. Lincolnshire 41.8

East of England

  1. Southend-on-Sea 51.2
  2. Hertfordshire 49.4
  3. Cambridgeshire 49.0
  4. Luton 47.2
  5. Peterborough 46.7
  6. Thurrock 46.5
  7. Essex 45.6
  8. Norfolk 44.6
  9. Bedford 44.4
  10. Suffolk 43.6
  11. Central Bedfordshire 43.2

London

  1. Hammersmith and Fulham 58.1
  2. Ealing 57.7
  3. Kingston upon Thames 57.2
  4. Sutton 56.5
  5. Barnet 56.4
  6. Richmond upon Thames 56.4
  7. Merton 55.8
  8. Harrow 55.0
  9. Redbridge 54.3
  10. Westminster 54.0
  11. Kensington and Chelsea 53.1
  12. Hackney 51.6
  13. Islington 51.5
  14. Southwark 51.3
  15. Bromley 50.8
  16. Newham 50.3
  17. Wandsworth 50.2
  18. Hillingdon 49.9
  19. Hounslow 49.7
  20. Lewisham 49.6
  21. Waltham Forest 49.1
  22. Brent 48.7
  23. Havering 48.2
  24. Haringey 47.9
  25. Tower Hamlets 47.9
  26. Barking and Dagenham 47.4
  27. Greenwich 47.4
  28. Bexley 47.3
  29. Croydon 46.5
  30. Camden 45.8
  31. Lambeth 45.2
  32. Enfield 44.9

North East

  1. Gateshead 48.4
  2. County Durham 47.3
  3. Stockton-on-Tees 46.8
  4. North Tyneside 44.4
  5. Hartlepool 44.2
  6. Redcar and Cleveland 44.2
  7. Northumberland 43.6
  8. Sunderland 43.1
  9. Darlington 42.3
  10. South Tyneside 42.0
  11. Middlesbrough 41.7
  12. Newcastle upon Tyne 41.6

North West

  1. Trafford 52.6
  2. Stockport 49.2
  3. Cheshire East 48.6
  4. Manchester 48.5
  5. Cheshire West and Chester 46.6
  6. Warrington 46.3
  7. Salford 46.1
  8. Wigan 45.5
  9. Bolton 45.4
  10. Oldham 44.5
  11. Westmorland and Furness 44.1
  12. Lancashire 44.0
  13. St. Helens 43.9
  14. Tameside 43.4
  15. Rochdale 43.3
  16. Bury 43.2
  17. Sefton 42.9
  18. Cumberland 41.5
  19. Blackburn with Darwen 41.0
  20. Liverpool 40.1
  21. Wirral 39.4
  22. Halton 37.5
  23. Blackpool 35.2
  24. Knowsley 34.8

South East

  1. Wokingham 53.3
  2. Slough 52.2
  3. Surrey 51.3
  4. West Berkshire 48.8
  5. Buckinghamshire 48.7
  6. Bracknell Forest 47.9
  7. Windsor and Maidenhead 47.6
  8. Brighton and Hove 46.7
  9. Reading 46.3
  10. Oxfordshire 46.2
  11. West Sussex 46.0
  12. East Sussex 45.6
  13. Hampshire 45.5
  14. Milton Keynes 44.0
  15. Medway 43.7
  16. Isle of Wight 42.3
  17. Kent 42.1
  18. Southampton 40.6
  19. Portsmouth 40.1

South West

  1. Bath and North East Somerset 48.1
  2. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 47.4
  3. Gloucestershire 47.3
  4. North Somerset 47.2
  5. Bristol, City of 46.0
  6. Devon 45.9
  7. Plymouth 45.6
  8. Wiltshire 45.5
  9. Swindon 45.4
  10. Torbay 45.1
  11. Cornwall 45.0
  12. South Gloucestershire 44.6
  13. Somerset 44.0
  14. Dorset 43.2

West Midlands

  1. Solihull 46.1
  2. Warwickshire 46.0
  3. Wolverhampton 45.7
  4. Birmingham 45.3
  5. Herefordshire, County of 45.0
  6. Telford and Wrekin 44.8
  7. Coventry 44.6
  8. Dudley 44.2
  9. Worcestershire 43.9
  10. Staffordshire 43.5
  11. Shropshire 41.9
  12. Sandwell 41.5
  13. Walsall 41.0
  14. Stoke-on-Trent 40.7

Yorkshire and the Humber

  1. York 50.2
  2. Calderdale 48.1
  3. Leeds 47.8
  4. North Yorkshire 47.4
  5. Doncaster 46.8
  6. Wakefield 46.1
  7. East Riding of Yorkshire 46.0
  8. Kirklees 45.1
  9. Rotherham 44.5
  10. Sheffield 43.9
  11. North Lincolnshire 43.5
  12. Barnsley 43.3
  13. Kingston upon Hull, City of 43.1
  14. Bradford 41.8
  15. North East Lincolnshire 39.1

Medians of schools, not pupils; authorities with 3 or more schools. Progress 8 is not published for this year.

Highest Attainment 8 in England: non-selective schools

Highest Attainment 8 in England: selective (grammar) schools