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

On 2025 Attainment 8, Richard Lander School topped the table in Cornwall with 51.0, 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 Cornwall GCSE results?

This page is the 2025 archive (the 2024/25 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. No Progress 8 exists for 2025 because these pupils sat no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020.

Why does a school in Cornwall 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.

Cornwall GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

31 state secondary schools in Cornwall 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. 4 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

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

Local Authority 31 state secondary schools 2024/25 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Cornwall ranked on Attainment 8

31 of 31 schools have published 2025 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/25.

Secondary schools in Cornwall 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 5 places since 2024	Richard Lander School Truro · Community school	51.0	55%	72%	4.43	280
2 , up 2 places since 2024	Penrice Academy St Austell · Academy converter	50.9	52%	74%	4.85	272
3 , up 3 places since 2024	Camborne Science and International Academy Camborne · Academy converter	49.7	47%	69%	4.21	302
4 , up 7 places since 2024	Penryn College Penryn · Academy converter	49.2	49%	69%	4.11	226
5	Penair School Truro · Academy converter	49.1	56%	71%	4.08	232
6 , down 5 places since 2024	Newquay Tretherras Newquay · Academy converter	48.4	47%	68%	4.16	280
7= , down 4 places since 2024	Falmouth School Falmouth · Academy converter	48.3	47%	70%	4.22	146
7= , down 5 places since 2024	The Roseland Academy Truro · Academy converter	48.3	45%	68%	4.10	119
9	Launceston College Launceston · Academy converter	48.0	55%	68%	4.36	250
10 , up 4 places since 2024	Poltair School St Austell · Academy sponsor led	47.4	48%	69%	4.22	161
11 , up 18 places since 2024	Bodmin College Bodmin · Academy converter	46.0	45%	63%	3.78	238
12 , up 1 place since 2024	Redruth School Redruth · Foundation school	45.7	42%	67%	3.98	269
13 , up 2 places since 2024	Budehaven Community School Bude · Foundation school	45.4	36%	62%	3.79	177
14 , down 4 places since 2024	St Ives School St Ives · Academy sponsor led	45.0	45%	60%	3.80	109
15 , down 7 places since 2024	Wadebridge School Wadebridge · Academy converter	44.7	43%	65%	3.65	216
16 , up 7 places since 2024	Callington Community College Callington · Academy converter	44.0	41%	69%	3.99	132
17= , up 4 places since 2024	Mounts Bay Academy Penzance · Academy converter	43.7	38%	66%	3.82	191
17=	Mullion School Helston · Academy converter	43.7	41%	58%	3.74	107
19 , up 8 places since 2024	Helston Community College Helston · Academy converter	43.6	47%	63%	3.68	214
20 , down 5 places since 2024	Treviglas Academy Newquay · Academy sponsor led	43.0	42%	62%	3.52	162
21 , down 9 places since 2024	Saltash Community School Saltash · Academy converter	42.9	39%	60%	3.57	191
22 , up 1 place since 2024	Liskeard School and Community College Liskeard · Academy converter	42.8	36%	56%	3.62	203
23 , up 5 places since 2024	Sir James Smith's School Camelford · Academy converter	42.7	43%	58%	3.67	100
24 , down 7 places since 2024	Hayle Academy Hayle · Academy converter	42.4	33%	59%	3.41	95
25 , up 6 places since 2024	Pool Academy Redruth · Academy converter	41.8	38%	61%	3.57	103
26 , down 4 places since 2024	Brannel School St Austell · Academy sponsor led	41.6	31%	55%	3.39	164
27 , down 8 places since 2024	Humphry Davy School Penzance · Foundation school	41.5	36%	56%	3.45	146
28 , down 8 places since 2024	Torpoint Community College Torpoint · Foundation school	41.0	38%	56%	3.76	135
29 , down 3 places since 2024	Fowey River Academy Fowey · Academy sponsor led	39.7	33%	52%	3.44	129
30	Looe Community Academy Looe · Academy converter	39.0	24%	50%	3.33	111
31 , down 6 places since 2024	Cape Cornwall School Penzance · Academy sponsor led	38.4	32%	58%	3.59	57

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 Cornwall 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
St Josephs School Cornwall · Other independent school	46.7	0%	28
The Cornwall Independent School Hayle · Other independent school	55.5	50%	6
Truro High School Truro · Other independent school	46.6	0%	56
Truro School Other independent school	34.1	0%	125

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 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 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Cornwall ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Cornwall with published 2025 GCSE results

More about schools in Cornwall

Cornwall GCSE results: common questions