Which school has the best GCSE results in Cambridgeshire?

On 2025 Attainment 8, Chesterton Community College tops the table in Cambridgeshire with 68.0, against an England average of 46.0. 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.

When are the 2026 GCSE results for Cambridgeshire schools published?

Pupils receive their results in August, but school-by-school figures come from the DfE performance tables, which publish provisional results in the autumn (usually mid-October) and revised figures early in the new year. This table shows 2025 results, the 2024/25 academic year, and updates when the next release is imported.

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 Cambridgeshire show no GCSE results?

A school has no published figure when it had no Year 11 cohort in the year (a new school, or one that opened with younger year groups), when it converted to an academy and the DfE published 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.

Cambridgeshire GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

45 state secondary schools in Cambridgeshire ranked on their 2025 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2024/25 academic year, the latest DfE has published for every school), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc average point score and cohort size for each school against the England average. 3 schools with no published results are listed at the end. 19 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

County 48 state secondary schools 2024/25 results

Secondary schools in Cambridgeshire ranked on Attainment 8

45 of 48 schools have published 2025 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/25.

Secondary schools in Cambridgeshire ranked on Attainment 8, 2025 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	46.0	45%	65%	4.09	–
1	Chesterton Community College Cambridge · Academy converter	68.0	84%	92%	6.35	190
2	Parkside Community College Cambridge · Academy converter	63.5	78%	88%	6.34	128
3	The King's (The Cathedral) School Peterborough · Academy converter	63.2	76%	89%	5.67	147
4	St Bede's Inter-Church School Cambridge · Academy converter	61.6	74%	86%	5.86	180
5	Impington Village College Cambridge · Academy converter	58.6	66%	78%	5.69	236
6	Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology Cambridge · University technical college	56.8	64%	77%	4.44	104
7	Comberton Village College Cambridge · Academy converter	55.7	59%	76%	4.96	297
8	Sawston Village College Cambridge · Academy converter	55.5	61%	75%	5.18	238
9	Coleridge Community College Cambridge · Academy converter	55.1	66%	78%	5.34	110
10	Swavesey Village College Cambridge · Academy converter	54.6	59%	79%	4.98	245
11	Linton Village College Cambridge · Academy converter	52.4	56%	71%	4.75	164
12	Cottenham Village College Cambridge · Academy converter	52.0	57%	75%	5.00	170
13	Cambourne Village College Cambridge · Free schools	51.7	57%	72%	4.66	248
14	Northstowe Learning Community Cambridge · Academy converter	51.4	55%	70%	4.71	114
15	Soham Village College Ely · Academy converter	51.2	55%	73%	4.42	277
16	Bottisham Village College Cambridge · Academy converter	51.1	58%	77%	4.53	293
17	Trumpington Community College Cambridge · Academy converter	50.4	55%	70%	4.87	89
18	Hinchingbrooke School Huntingdon · Academy converter	50.3	52%	73%	4.70	299
19	Ely College Ely · Academy converter	49.7	54%	74%	4.33	284
20	Sawtry Village Academy Huntingdon · Academy converter	49.4	48%	73%	4.43	159
21	Longsands Academy St Neots · Academy converter	48.5	55%	72%	4.74	275
22	St Ivo Academy St Ives · Academy converter	47.1	47%	70%	4.44	284
23	Hampton Gardens Secondary School Peterborough · Free schools	47.0	48%	69%	4.02	208
24	Stanground Academy Peterborough · Academy sponsor led	46.7	43%	69%	3.92	224
25	Arthur Mellows Village College Peterborough · Academy converter	46.5	45%	69%	3.78	259
26	Ormiston Bushfield Academy Peterborough · Academy sponsor led	46.3	44%	64%	3.91	205
27	Abbey College, Ramsey Ramsey · Academy converter	46.1	46%	69%	4.10	189
28	Nene Park Academy Peterborough · Academy sponsor led	45.6	43%	57%	3.92	234
29=	Marshland High School Wisbech · Academy sponsor led	45.5	45%	66%	4.33	147
29=	The Netherhall School Cambridge · Academy sponsor led	45.5	39%	57%	4.17	178
31=	Hampton College Peterborough · Academy converter	44.5	43%	65%	3.72	211
31=	Witchford Village College Ely · Academy converter	44.5	39%	63%	4.16	121
33	Jack Hunt Academy Peterborough · Academy converter	44.2	38%	60%	3.78	325
34	North Cambridge Academy Cambridge · Academy sponsor led	43.9	35%	51%	3.48	125
35	Ken Stimpson Academy Peterborough · Academy converter	41.7	40%	60%	3.55	187
36	Cromwell Community College Chatteris · Academy converter	40.8	39%	58%	3.54	236
37	Sir Harry Smith Community College Peterborough · Academy converter	40.6	34%	57%	3.50	200
38	Ernulf Academy St Neots · Academy sponsor led	40.3	39%	63%	3.76	134
39	St Peter's School Huntingdon · Academy converter	39.6	33%	53%	3.43	259
40	City of Peterborough Academy Peterborough · Free schools	39.3	31%	50%	3.33	155
41	Thomas Deacon Academy Peterborough · Academy sponsor led	39.1	32%	53%	3.13	346
42	Vista Academy Littleport Ely · Academy sponsor led	38.8	34%	53%	3.48	106
43	Thomas Clarkson Academy Wisbech · Academy sponsor led	37.4	28%	52%	3.05	255
44	Neale-Wade Academy March · Academy sponsor led	34.8	24%	44%	3.00	232
45	Queen Katharine Academy Peterborough · Academy sponsor led	32.5	23%	41%	2.70	252
–	Manor Drive Secondary Academy Peterborough · Free schools · No published GCSE results	–	–	–	–	–
–	St John Fisher Catholic High School Peterborough · Academy converter · No published GCSE results	–	–	–	–	–
–	The Wisbech Academy Wisbech · Free schools · No published GCSE results	–	–	–	–	–

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

Independent schools in Cambridgeshire with published 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
Abbey College Cambridge Cambridgeshire · Other independent school	3.3	0%	171
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
Iqra Academy Peterborough · Other independent school	20.1	24%	29
Kimbolton School Huntingdon · Other independent school	33.2	0%	106
King's Ely Ely · Other independent school	47.4	61%	133
Kirkstone House School Peterborough · Other independent school	22.0	10%	21
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
Sancton Wood School Other independent school	52.4	63%	48
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
The Perse School Other independent school	82.5	98%	196
The Peterborough School Peterborough · Other independent school	60.8	73%	45
The Stephen Perse Foundation Other independent school	49.9	0%	138
Waldorf Cambridge School Fulbourn · Other independent school	26.3	43%	7
Wisbech Grammar School Cambridgeshire · Other independent school	48.7	51%	69

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 46.0.

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, and the same applies to 2026. 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.

See the best secondary schools in Cambridgeshire on our composite score

Cambridgeshire GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Cambridgeshire ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Cambridgeshire with published GCSE results

More about schools in Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire GCSE results: common questions