Which school had the best GCSE results in Cumberland in 2023?

On 2023 Attainment 8, Cockermouth School topped the table in Cumberland with 53.6, against an England average of 46.3. 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 Cumberland GCSE results?

This page is the 2023 archive (the 2022/23 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Cumberland are on the main Cumberland 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 Cumberland show no 2023 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2023 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.

Cumberland GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

19 state secondary schools in Cumberland ranked on their 2023 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2022/23 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. 1 independent school with published results is listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2023 archive of the table. See the latest Cumberland GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Local Authority 19 state secondary schools 2022/23 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Cumberland ranked on Attainment 8

19 of 19 schools have published 2023 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2022/23.

Secondary schools in Cumberland ranked on Attainment 8, 2023 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Progress 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	46.3	0.00	45%	65%	4.05	–
1 , up 1 place since 2022	Cockermouth School Cockermouth · Academy converter	53.6	+0.41 (0.22 to 0.60)	60%	78%	4.91	210
2 , down 1 place since 2022	Keswick School Keswick · Academy converter	52.8	+0.33 (0.13 to 0.52)	62%	83%	4.98	210
3	The Nelson Thomlinson School Wigton · Voluntary controlled school	46.5	-0.11 (-0.31 to 0.09)	45%	67%	4.17	197
4 , up 5 places since 2022	Caldew School Carlisle · Academy converter	45.1	-0.10 (-0.32 to 0.12)	38%	65%	4.03	164
5= , up 2 places since 2022	St Benedict's Catholic High School Whitehaven · Voluntary aided school	44.4	-0.26 (-0.46 to -0.05)	37%	65%	3.78	184
5= , up 1 place since 2022	William Howard School Brampton · Academy converter	44.4	-0.36 (-0.55 to -0.16)	39%	63%	3.85	205
7 , up 6 places since 2022	Richard Rose Morton Academy Carlisle · Academy sponsor led	44.0	+0.04 (-0.19 to 0.27)	30%	58%	3.63	147
8 , down 5 places since 2022	West Lakes Academy Egremont · Academy sponsor led	43.7	-0.37 (-0.56 to -0.18)	35%	59%	3.94	209
9 , up 8 places since 2022	St Josephs Catholic High School, Workington Workington · Academy converter	43.4	-0.31 (-0.56 to -0.05)	33%	55%	3.51	119
10 , up 1 place since 2022	Workington Academy Workington · Academy sponsor led	43.1	+0.15 (-0.08 to 0.37)	41%	62%	3.86	149
11 , down 1 place since 2022	Trinity School Carlisle · Academy converter	42.0	-0.36 (-0.53 to -0.18)	36%	57%	3.71	249
12 , down 4 places since 2022	St John Henry Newman Catholic School Carlisle · Voluntary aided school	41.6	-0.45 (-0.76 to -0.14)	20%	48%	3.71	81
13 , down 8 places since 2022	Millom School Millom · Community school	40.7	-0.50 (-0.79 to -0.21)	35%	54%	3.36	92
14 , down 2 places since 2022	Richard Rose Central Academy Carlisle · Academy sponsor led	40.5	-0.38 (-0.60 to -0.15)	35%	58%	3.60	167
15 , down 1 place since 2022	Netherhall School Maryport · Community school	39.2	-0.76 (-1.02 to -0.50)	27%	56%	3.24	114
16 , down 1 place since 2022	The Whitehaven Academy Whitehaven · Academy sponsor led	34.5	-0.98 (-1.30 to -0.66)	16%	34%	2.82	76
17 , down 1 place since 2022	Solway Community School Wigton · Community school	33.5	-1.29 (-1.84 to -0.73)	12%	42%	2.94	26
18 , up 1 place since 2022	Energy Coast UTC Workington · University technical college	29.3	-1.48 (-1.73 to -1.23)	20%	48%	2.50	122
19 , down 1 place since 2022	Beacon Hill Community School Wigton · Community school	27.8	-1.18 (-1.76 to -0.60)	4%	17%	2.44	23

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

Under each rank: the change since the 2022 table, in places gained (+) or lost (−). No figure means the rank is unchanged or the school had no ranked 2022 result.

Independent schools in Cumberland with published 2023 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
Austin Friars Carlisle · Other independent school	9.9	0%	42

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 2023 was 46.3.

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 2023 archive of the table: each school's 2023 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2023 figure is listed unranked even where it has results for a later year. The main Cumberland GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in Cumberland on our composite score

Cumberland GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Cumberland ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Cumberland with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Cumberland

Cumberland GCSE results: common questions