Which school had the best GCSE results in Cornwall in 2024?

On 2024 Attainment 8, Newquay Tretherras topped the table in Cornwall with 49.5, against an England average of 45.9. 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 Cornwall GCSE results?

This page is the 2024 archive (the 2023/24 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Cornwall are on the main Cornwall 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 Cornwall show no 2024 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2024 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.

Cornwall GCSE results 2024: secondary school league table

31 state secondary schools in Cornwall ranked on their 2024 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2023/24 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. 4 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2024 archive of the table. See the latest Cornwall GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Local Authority 31 state secondary schools 2023/24 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Cornwall ranked on Attainment 8

31 of 31 schools have published 2024 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2023/24.

Secondary schools in Cornwall ranked on Attainment 8, 2024 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Progress 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	45.9	0.00	46%	65%	4.07	–
1	Newquay Tretherras Newquay · Academy converter	49.5	+0.17 (0.01 to 0.33)	51%	72%	4.22	310
2	The Roseland Academy Truro · Academy converter	49.0	+0.41 (0.16 to 0.65)	44%	70%	4.23	132
3	Falmouth School Falmouth · Academy converter	48.9	-0.08 (-0.30 to 0.14)	52%	67%	4.39	169
4	Penrice Academy St Austell · Academy converter	48.5	+0.32 (0.15 to 0.49)	52%	75%	4.64	269
5	Penair School Truro · Academy converter	48.0	+0.05 (-0.15 to 0.25)	54%	70%	3.90	205
6=	Camborne Science and International Academy Camborne · Academy converter	47.3	-0.15 (-0.32 to 0.01)	43%	64%	3.86	301
6=	Richard Lander School Truro · Community school	47.3	+0.07 (-0.10 to 0.23)	47%	67%	4.05	288
8	Wadebridge School Wadebridge · Academy converter	46.3	+0.05 (-0.14 to 0.24)	45%	66%	3.84	214
9	Launceston College Launceston · Academy converter	46.0	+0.22 (0.03 to 0.40)	51%	72%	4.31	239
10	St Ives School St Ives · Academy sponsor led	45.9	-0.12 (-0.39 to 0.15)	45%	65%	3.91	112
11	Penryn College Penryn · Academy converter	45.7	+0.14 (-0.05 to 0.32)	41%	62%	3.85	226
12	Saltash Community School Saltash · Academy converter	45.4	-0.30 (-0.50 to -0.10)	42%	63%	3.84	195
13	Redruth School Redruth · Foundation school	45.3	-0.17 (-0.34 to 0.00)	43%	65%	3.93	284
14	Poltair School St Austell · Academy sponsor led	43.4	+0.26 (0.03 to 0.49)	30%	52%	3.79	152
15=	Budehaven Community School Bude · Foundation school	43.0	-0.22 (-0.42 to -0.02)	36%	63%	3.59	199
15=	Treviglas Academy Newquay · Academy sponsor led	43.0	+0.01 (-0.21 to 0.24)	35%	57%	3.63	157
17=	Hayle Academy Hayle · Academy converter	42.9	-0.13 (-0.44 to 0.18)	40%	61%	3.54	81
17=	Mullion School Helston · Academy converter	42.9	+0.15 (-0.11 to 0.42)	33%	67%	3.57	114
19	Humphry Davy School Penzance · Foundation school	42.2	-0.27 (-0.47 to -0.07)	36%	59%	3.55	198
20	Torpoint Community College Torpoint · Foundation school	42.1	-0.47 (-0.71 to -0.23)	38%	63%	3.76	136
21	Mounts Bay Academy Penzance · Academy converter	41.7	-0.56 (-0.76 to -0.36)	33%	54%	3.66	196
22	Brannel School St Austell · Academy sponsor led	40.8	+0.02 (-0.20 to 0.25)	28%	51%	3.35	160
23=	Callington Community College Callington · Academy converter	40.1	-0.28 (-0.51 to -0.05)	35%	53%	3.60	153
23=	Liskeard School and Community College Liskeard · Academy converter	40.1	-0.09 (-0.28 to 0.11)	35%	54%	3.40	204
25	Cape Cornwall School Penzance · Academy sponsor led	39.9	-0.08 (-0.52 to 0.37)	26%	59%	3.57	39
26	Fowey River Academy Fowey · Academy sponsor led	39.8	-0.22 (-0.50 to 0.06)	30%	56%	3.46	102
27	Helston Community College Helston · Academy converter	39.2	-0.48 (-0.67 to -0.30)	26%	54%	3.25	223
28	Sir James Smith's School Camelford · Academy converter	38.8	-0.43 (-0.71 to -0.16)	31%	50%	3.54	107
29	Bodmin College Bodmin · Academy converter	38.6	-0.44 (-0.62 to -0.26)	32%	53%	3.08	245
30	Looe Community Academy Looe · Academy converter	37.2	-0.75 (-1.03 to -0.47)	26%	51%	3.17	97
31	Pool Academy Redruth · Academy converter	36.7	-0.59 (-0.88 to -0.31)	30%	54%	3.19	103

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

Independent schools in Cornwall with published 2024 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
St Josephs School Cornwall · Other independent school	46.6	0%	30
The Cornwall Independent School Hayle · Other independent school	53.4	60%	10
Truro High School Truro · Other independent school	46.0	0%	42
Truro School Other independent school	37.9	0%	150

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 2024 was 45.9.

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 2024 archive of the table: each school's 2024 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2024 figure is listed unranked even where it has results for a later year. The main Cornwall GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in Cornwall on our composite score

Cornwall GCSE results 2024: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Cornwall ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Cornwall with published 2024 GCSE results

More about schools in Cornwall

Cornwall GCSE results: common questions