Which school had the best GCSE results in Cambridge in 2025?

On 2025 Attainment 8, Chesterton Community College topped the table in Cambridge with 68.0, against an England average of 46.1. 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 Cambridge GCSE results?

This page is the 2025 archive (the 2024/25 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Cambridge are on the main Cambridge 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. No Progress 8 exists for 2025 because these pupils sat no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020.

Why does a school in Cambridge show no 2025 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2025 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.

Cambridge GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

17 state secondary schools in Cambridge ranked on their 2025 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2024/25 academic year), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc average point score and cohort size for each school against the England average. 8 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2025 archive of the table. See the latest Cambridge GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Town 17 state secondary schools 2024/25 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Cambridge ranked on Attainment 8

17 of 17 schools have published 2025 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/25.

Secondary schools in Cambridge ranked on Attainment 8, 2025 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	46.1	45%	65%	4.09	–
1 , up 1 place since 2024	Chesterton Community College Cambridge · Academy converter	68.0	84%	92%	6.35	190
2 , up 1 place since 2024	Parkside Community College Cambridge · Academy converter	63.5	78%	88%	6.34	128
3 , down 2 places since 2024	St Bede's Inter-Church School Cambridge · Academy converter	61.6	74%	86%	5.86	180
4 , up 2 places since 2024	Impington Village College Cambridge · Academy converter	58.6	66%	78%	5.69	236
5	Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology Cambridge · University technical college	56.8	64%	77%	4.44	104
6 , up 1 place since 2024	Comberton Village College Cambridge · Academy converter	55.7	59%	76%	4.96	297
7 , down 3 places since 2024	Sawston Village College Cambridge · Academy converter	55.5	61%	75%	5.18	238
8 , up 9 places since 2024	Coleridge Community College Cambridge · Academy converter	55.1	66%	78%	5.34	110
9 , down 1 place since 2024	Swavesey Village College Cambridge · Academy converter	54.6	59%	79%	4.98	245
10 , up 5 places since 2024	Linton Village College Cambridge · Academy converter	52.4	56%	71%	4.75	164
11	Cottenham Village College Cambridge · Academy converter	52.0	57%	75%	5.00	170
12 , up 2 places since 2024	Cambourne Village College Cambridge · Free schools	51.7	57%	72%	4.66	248
13 , down 3 places since 2024	Northstowe Learning Community Cambridge · Academy converter	51.4	55%	70%	4.71	114
14 , down 3 places since 2024	Bottisham Village College Cambridge · Academy converter	51.1	58%	77%	4.53	293
15 , down 6 places since 2024	Trumpington Community College Cambridge · Academy converter	50.4	55%	70%	4.87	89
16 , down 3 places since 2024	The Netherhall School Cambridge · Academy sponsor led	45.5	39%	57%	4.17	178
17 , down 1 place since 2024	North Cambridge Academy Cambridge · Academy sponsor led	43.9	35%	51%	3.48	125

Under each rank: the change since the 2024 table, in places gained (+) or lost (−). No figure means the rank is unchanged or the school had no ranked 2024 result.

Independent schools in Cambridge with published 2025 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
Cambridge Arts and Sciences (CATS and CSVPA) Cambridge · Other independent school	6.3	0%	47
Heritage School Cambridge · Other independent school	28.0	0%	16
Landmark International School Cambridge · Other independent school	7.8	0%	8
Mander Portman Woodward Cambridge · Other independent school	20.6	0%	17
Red Balloon Learner Centre - Cambridge Cambridge · Other independent school	6.3	8%	12
St. Andrew's College Cambridge Cambridge · Other independent school	0.2	0%	132
St Mary's School Cambridge · Other independent school	51.8	68%	100
The Leys School Cambridge · Other independent school	45.1	0%	95

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 2025 was 46.1.

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 is not shown: the DfE published no Progress 8 for 2025 because these pupils sat no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020, the baseline it is measured from. Attainment 8 rewards intake as well as teaching, so a selective school will usually top an attainment-only table.

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 2025 archive of the table: each school's 2025 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2025 figure is listed unranked even where it has results for a later year. The main Cambridge GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in Cambridge on our composite score

Cambridge GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Cambridge ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Cambridge with published 2025 GCSE results

More about schools in Cambridge

Cambridge GCSE results: common questions