Which school had the best GCSE results in Bedford in 2023?

On 2023 Attainment 8, Goldington Academy topped the table in Bedford with 54.3, against an England average of 46.3. Attainment 8 rewards intake as well as teaching, so compare a school's grade 5+ pass rate and, where published, its Progress 8 before reading the rank as a verdict.

Where are the latest Bedford GCSE results?

This page is the 2023 archive (the 2022/23 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Bedford are on the main Bedford GCSE results page, which updates when the DfE releases the next year's performance tables: provisional figures in the autumn, revised figures early in the new year.

What is Attainment 8?

Attainment 8 is the DfE's headline GCSE measure: the average points a school's pupils achieved across eight qualifications, with English and maths counted twice. A score of 50 means pupils averaged roughly a grade 5 across those subjects. Progress 8 measures the same pupils against others nationally with the same primary-school starting point.

Why does a school in Bedford show no 2023 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2023 when it had no Year 11 cohort in that year (a new school, or one that opened with younger year groups), when it converted to an academy and the DfE published that year's results under its previous identity, or when it is independent and its pupils sat IGCSE, Pre-U or IB qualifications that the DfE tables do not count. Independent schools with a published figure are listed separately and unranked for that reason.

Bedford GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

13 state secondary schools in Bedford ranked on their 2023 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2022/23 academic year), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, Progress 8, EBacc average point score and cohort size for each school against the England average. 6 schools with no published results are listed at the end. 4 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2023 archive of the table. See the latest Bedford GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Town 19 state secondary schools 2022/23 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Bedford ranked on Attainment 8

13 of 19 schools have published 2023 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2022/23.

Secondary schools in Bedford ranked on Attainment 8, 2023 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Progress 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	46.3	0.00	45%	65%	4.05	–
1 , up 1 place since 2022	Goldington Academy Bedford · Academy converter	54.3	+0.88 (0.65 to 1.11)	69%	84%	5.00	154
2 , up 2 places since 2022	Bedford Free School Bedford · Free schools	51.0	+0.99 (0.67 to 1.31)	48%	72%	4.94	95
3 , up 4 places since 2022	Wixams Academy Bedford · Free schools	47.6	+0.19 (-0.07 to 0.46)	51%	72%	4.32	114
4= , down 3 places since 2022	Lincroft Academy Bedford · Academy converter	47.5	+0.31 (0.11 to 0.52)	49%	72%	4.20	189
4= , up 2 places since 2022	Redborne Upper School and Community College Bedford · Academy converter	47.5	+0.09 (-0.05 to 0.23)	51%	72%	3.99	393
6 , down 3 places since 2022	Sharnbrook Academy Bedford · Academy converter	47.4	+0.09 (-0.08 to 0.26)	43%	71%	4.01	265
7 , down 2 places since 2022	St Thomas More Catholic School Bedford · Academy converter	46.9	+0.18 (-0.05 to 0.42)	47%	67%	3.92	145
8	Wootton Academy Bedford · Academy converter	44.8	-0.17 (-0.34 to 0.01)	43%	62%	3.73	293
9 , up 1 place since 2022	Mark Rutherford School Bedford · Academy converter	41.9	+0.03 (-0.17 to 0.23)	39%	61%	3.65	197
10 , down 1 place since 2022	Biddenham International School and Sports College Bedford · Foundation school	41.4	+0.29 (0.07 to 0.50)	30%	53%	3.13	191
11	Bedford Academy Bedford · Academy sponsor led	38.8	+0.00 (-0.21 to 0.20)	29%	50%	3.39	205
12	Daubeney Academy Bedford · Academy converter	36.1	–	31%	51%	3.22	88
13	Kempston Academy Bedford · Academy sponsor led	35.5	-0.20 (-0.58 to 0.18)	19%	48%	3.00	75
–	Alameda Middle School Bedford · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Arnold Academy Bedford · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Castle Newnham School Bedford · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Holywell School Bedford · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Marston Vale Middle School Bedford · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Woodland Middle School Academy Bedford · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–

Schools with the same Attainment 8 score share a rank (shown as "=").

Under each rank: the change since the 2022 table, in places gained (+) or lost (−). No figure means the rank is unchanged or the school had no ranked 2022 result.

Independent schools in Bedford with published 2023 GCSE results

Listed as published, not ranked. The DfE tables count only reformed GCSEs, so a school whose pupils sit IGCSE, Pre-U or the IB reports a lower figure than its results merit, or none at all. Compare independent schools on their own published examination results and inspection reports.

School	Attainment 8 (as published)	Grade 5+ English & maths	Pupils
Bedford Girls' School Bedford · Other independent school	14.5	0%	113
Bedford Greenacre Independent School Bedford · Other independent school	47.6	48%	60
Bedford Modern School Bedford · Other independent school	28.9	0%	136
Bedford School Bedford · Other independent school	14.2	0%	154

How to read this table

Attainment 8 is the average points a school's pupils achieved across eight GCSE subjects: English and maths (double-weighted), three EBacc subjects (sciences, computing, history, geography, languages) and three further approved qualifications. The DfE publishes it for every state school; the England average for 2023 was 46.3.

Grade 5+ in English and maths is the share of pupils reaching a "strong pass" in both; grade 4+ is the "standard pass". EBacc APS is the average point score across the English Baccalaureate subjects, including pupils who did not enter them.

Progress 8 measures how much progress pupils made from the end of primary school to their GCSEs against pupils nationally with the same starting point; it is the like-for-like measure, and the range in brackets is its confidence interval.

Ranks are shared where scores tie. Schools are ranked here on published results alone; our composite score, which also weighs Ofsted inspection, progress and attendance, orders the same schools on the best secondary schools page.

This is the 2023 archive of the table: each school's 2023 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2023 figure is listed unranked even where it has results for a later year. The main Bedford GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in Bedford on our composite score

Bedford GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Bedford ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Bedford with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Bedford

Bedford GCSE results: common questions