Which school had the best GCSE results in Cheshire East in 2025?

On 2025 Attainment 8, Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College topped the table in Cheshire East with 55.6, 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 Cheshire East GCSE results?

This page is the 2025 archive (the 2024/25 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Cheshire East are on the main Cheshire East 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 Cheshire East 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.

Cheshire East GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

22 state secondary schools in Cheshire East 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. 1 school with no published results is listed at the end. 2 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

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

Local Authority 23 state secondary schools 2024/25 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Cheshire East ranked on Attainment 8

22 of 23 schools have published 2025 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/25.

Secondary schools in Cheshire East 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 3 places since 2024	Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College Sandbach · Academy converter	55.6	59%	80%	5.06	238
2 , up 1 place since 2024	Knutsford Academy Knutsford · Academy converter	54.9	68%	85%	4.91	212
3 , down 1 place since 2024	The Fallibroome Academy Macclesfield · Academy converter	53.4	56%	76%	4.48	240
4 , down 3 places since 2024	Poynton High School Stockport · Academy converter	53.0	53%	77%	4.80	237
5 , up 1 place since 2024	Alsager School Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	51.9	52%	75%	4.72	257
6 , down 1 place since 2024	Wilmslow High School Wilmslow · Community school	51.4	53%	75%	4.52	341
7 , up 1 place since 2024	Tytherington School Macclesfield · Academy converter	50.1	54%	73%	4.53	228
8 , up 1 place since 2024	Brine Leas School Nantwich · Academy converter	49.7	53%	77%	4.36	228
9 , up 1 place since 2024	All Hallows Catholic College Macclesfield · Academy converter	49.6	53%	71%	4.39	209
10= , down 4 places since 2024	Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School Crewe · Academy converter	48.2	44%	70%	4.06	230
10= , up 2 places since 2024	Sandbach School Sandbach · Free schools	48.2	50%	74%	4.00	232
12 , up 2 places since 2024	Shavington Academy Shavington · Academy converter	47.8	43%	74%	3.93	162
13 , down 2 places since 2024	St Thomas More Catholic High School Crewe · Academy converter	47.7	46%	74%	4.24	127
14 , down 1 place since 2024	Eaton Bank Academy Congleton · Academy converter	46.9	40%	69%	3.96	175
15 , up 1 place since 2024	Congleton High School Congleton · Academy converter	44.8	41%	63%	3.94	195
16	The Macclesfield Academy Macclesfield · Academy sponsor led	42.7	34%	59%	3.70	123
17	Middlewich High School Middlewich · Academy converter	41.2	34%	55%	3.85	134
18 , down 3 places since 2024	Ruskin Community High School Crewe · Community school	37.9	26%	48%	3.16	134
19 , down 1 place since 2024	The Oaks Academy Crewe · Academy sponsor led	35.4	20%	48%	2.98	84
20 , down 1 place since 2024	Crewe Engineering and Design UTC Crewe · University technical college	32.4	19%	45%	2.51	101
21 , down 1 place since 2024	Sir William Stanier School Crewe · Academy sponsor led	28.4	11%	27%	2.16	127
22 , down 1 place since 2024	Cheshire Studio School Crewe · Studio schools	24.0	0%	27%	1.68	22
–	Malbank School and Sixth Form College Nantwich · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2025	–	–	–	–	–

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

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 Cheshire East 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
Beech Hall School Macclesfield · Other independent school	36.2	38%	32
The King's School In Macclesfield Macclesfield · Other independent school	28.9	0%	145

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

See the best secondary schools in Cheshire East on our composite score

Cheshire East GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Cheshire East ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Cheshire East with published 2025 GCSE results

More about schools in Cheshire East

Cheshire East GCSE results: common questions