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

On 2023 Attainment 8, Bolton Muslim Girls School topped the table in Bolton with 57.4, 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 Bolton GCSE results?

This page is the 2023 archive (the 2022/23 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Bolton are on the main Bolton 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 Bolton 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.

Bolton GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

18 state secondary schools in Bolton 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. 2 schools with no published results are listed at the end. 6 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

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

Local Authority 20 state secondary schools 2022/23 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Bolton ranked on Attainment 8

18 of 20 schools have published 2023 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2022/23.

Secondary schools in Bolton 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	Bolton Muslim Girls School Bolton · Academy converter	57.4	+1.01 (0.75 to 1.27)	70%	78%	5.45	120
2	Sharples School Bolton · Academy converter	56.3	+0.82 (0.63 to 1.01)	68%	77%	4.76	230
3	Canon Slade School Bolton · Academy converter	54.8	+0.14 (-0.02 to 0.31)	64%	84%	4.62	296
4 , up 2 places since 2022	Eden Boys' School, Bolton Bolton · Free schools	52.6	+0.73 (0.47 to 0.98)	65%	82%	4.74	124
5 , up 2 places since 2022	St James's Church of England High School Bolton · Academy converter	49.0	-0.24 (-0.43 to -0.05)	48%	73%	4.21	209
6 , up 3 places since 2022	Kearsley Academy Bolton · Academy sponsor led	48.1	+0.24 (-0.01 to 0.49)	50%	69%	4.32	139
7 , down 3 places since 2022	St Joseph's RC High School Bolton · Voluntary aided school	47.8	-0.11 (-0.31 to 0.09)	51%	69%	4.21	203
8 , down 3 places since 2022	Thornleigh Salesian College Bolton · Voluntary aided school	47.3	-0.07 (-0.25 to 0.11)	41%	68%	4.08	256
9 , down 1 place since 2022	Turton School Bolton · Community school	46.2	-0.19 (-0.37 to -0.01)	40%	61%	4.12	255
10 , up 2 places since 2022	Rivington and Blackrod High School Bolton · Academy converter	45.8	-0.16 (-0.33 to 0.02)	47%	64%	3.76	262
11	Essa Academy Bolton · Academy sponsor led	45.7	+0.25 (0.04 to 0.46)	41%	61%	3.91	211
12 , down 2 places since 2022	Little Lever School Bolton · Academy converter	44.4	+0.09 (-0.11 to 0.28)	41%	64%	3.60	207
13	Ladybridge High School Bolton · Community school	44.3	-0.20 (-0.40 to 0.00)	36%	58%	3.79	211
14 , up 1 place since 2022	Westhoughton High School Bolton · Community school	43.3	-0.74 (-0.92 to -0.56)	41%	61%	3.63	247
15 , down 1 place since 2022	Harper Green School Bolton · Academy converter	40.3	-0.22 (-0.40 to -0.05)	33%	53%	3.35	286
16	Smithills School Bolton · Academy converter	38.9	-0.34 (-0.57 to -0.11)	27%	47%	3.40	171
17	Bolton St Catherine's Academy Bolton · Academy converter	34.5	-0.58 (-0.82 to -0.35)	27%	45%	2.76	148
18	University Collegiate School Bolton · University technical college	33.7	-0.87 (-1.33 to -0.40)	27%	53%	2.93	51
–	King's Leadership Academy Bolton Bolton · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Mount St Joseph RC High School a Voluntary Academy Bolton · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–

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 Bolton 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
Al Jamiah Al Islamiyyah Bolton · Other independent school	29.7	13%	15
Bolton Islamic Girls School Bolton · Other independent school	46.7	48%	21
Bolton School Boys' Division Bolton · Other independent school	51.4	0%	149
Bolton School Girls' Division Bolton · Other independent school	57.0	0%	123
Lord's School Bolton · Other independent school	4.0	0%	12
Madrasatul Imam Muhammad Zakariya Bolton · Other independent school	46.5	52%	23

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 Bolton GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in Bolton on our composite score

Bolton GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Bolton ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Bolton with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Bolton

Bolton GCSE results: common questions