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

On 2024 Attainment 8, Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Penrith topped the table in Cumbria with 65.0, 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 Cumbria GCSE results?

This page is the 2024 archive (the 2023/24 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Cumbria are on the main Cumbria 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 Cumbria 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.

Cumbria GCSE results 2024: secondary school league table

39 state secondary schools in Cumbria 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 Cumbria GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

County 39 state secondary schools 2023/24 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Cumbria ranked on Attainment 8

39 of 39 schools have published 2024 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2023/24.

Secondary schools in Cumbria 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	Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Penrith Penrith · Academy converter	65.0	+0.35 (0.13 to 0.58)	92%	99%	5.92	161
2	Queen Elizabeth School Academy converter	58.5	+0.37 (0.09 to 0.64)	75%	91%	5.16	106
3 , up 1 place since 2023	Keswick School Keswick · Academy converter	54.1	+0.39 (0.19 to 0.58)	66%	88%	5.19	209
4 , down 1 place since 2023	Cockermouth School Cockermouth · Academy converter	51.4	+0.23 (0.04 to 0.42)	55%	76%	4.64	216
5 , up 3 places since 2023	Kirkbie Kendal School Kendal · Academy converter	49.3	+0.12 (-0.10 to 0.34)	49%	74%	4.45	168
6 , up 3 places since 2023	The Queen Katherine School Kendal · Academy converter	49.1	+0.08 (-0.14 to 0.31)	45%	66%	4.28	160
7	Ulverston Victoria High School Ulverston · Community school	48.8	-0.11 (-0.32 to 0.09)	45%	75%	4.33	194
8 , up 6 places since 2023	Kirkby Stephen Grammar School Kirkby Stephen · Academy converter	48.6	-0.02 (-0.43 to 0.39)	47%	63%	4.06	49
9 , down 3 places since 2023	John Ruskin School Coniston · Community school	48.4	+0.50 (0.10 to 0.90)	31%	63%	4.22	49
10	Settlebeck School Sedbergh · Academy converter	47.8	+0.45 (0.02 to 0.88)	43%	71%	3.91	44
11 , up 12 places since 2023	The Lakes School Windermere · Community school	47.4	-0.11 (-0.41 to 0.19)	43%	71%	4.00	90
12 , down 1 place since 2023	The Nelson Thomlinson School Wigton · Voluntary controlled school	47.0	-0.10 (-0.29 to 0.10)	50%	71%	4.18	207
13 , down 8 places since 2023	Cartmel Priory CofE School Grange-over-Sands · Academy converter	46.4	-0.08 (-0.41 to 0.25)	45%	66%	3.86	71
14 , up 15 places since 2023	Appleby Grammar School Appleby-in-Westmorland · Academy converter	45.5	+0.01 (-0.37 to 0.38)	49%	70%	3.96	59
15 , up 10 places since 2023	Trinity School Carlisle · Academy converter	45.2	-0.14 (-0.31 to 0.04)	46%	67%	4.02	269
16 , up 4 places since 2023	Dowdales School Dalton-in-Furness · Community school	44.1	-0.29 (-0.50 to -0.08)	36%	59%	3.67	180
17 , up 7 places since 2023	Chetwynde School Barrow-in-Furness · Free schools	44.0	-0.39 (-0.76 to -0.01)	47%	57%	3.74	58
18= , down 6 places since 2023	Dallam School Cumbria · Academy converter	43.7	-0.43 (-0.64 to -0.22)	38%	63%	3.75	183
18=	Richard Rose Morton Academy Carlisle · Academy sponsor led	43.7	+0.06 (-0.15 to 0.28)	36%	57%	3.70	174
20 , down 5 places since 2023	St Benedict's Catholic High School Whitehaven · Voluntary aided school	42.6	-0.29 (-0.51 to -0.07)	30%	55%	3.59	165
21 , down 8 places since 2023	Caldew School Carlisle · Academy converter	42.4	-0.19 (-0.42 to 0.05)	39%	50%	3.72	145
22= , down 3 places since 2023	West Lakes Academy Egremont · Academy sponsor led	42.0	-0.42 (-0.62 to -0.21)	37%	53%	3.77	197
22= , down 7 places since 2023	William Howard School Brampton · Academy converter	42.0	-0.19 (-0.38 to 0.00)	34%	60%	3.70	224
24= , up 8 places since 2023	Richard Rose Central Academy Carlisle · Academy sponsor led	41.7	-0.33 (-0.52 to -0.14)	40%	60%	3.76	222
24= , up 12 places since 2023	The Whitehaven Academy Whitehaven · Academy sponsor led	41.7	-0.24 (-0.49 to 0.01)	39%	55%	3.54	127
26 , up 9 places since 2023	Queen Elizabeth Studio School Studio schools	41.5	-0.48 (-0.72 to -0.24)	30%	63%	3.36	140
27 , up 3 places since 2023	Millom School Millom · Community school	41.2	-0.28 (-0.57 to 0.02)	33%	62%	3.46	90
28	Furness Academy Barrow-in-Furness · Academy sponsor led	40.9	-0.36 (-0.55 to -0.17)	33%	55%	3.27	209
29 , up 4 places since 2023	Ullswater Community College Penrith · Foundation school	40.7	+0.01 (-0.15 to 0.18)	34%	58%	3.65	284
30 , down 8 places since 2023	Workington Academy Workington · Academy sponsor led	39.9	-0.19 (-0.40 to 0.03)	32%	52%	3.60	166
31 , down 4 places since 2023	St Bernards Catholic High School, Barrow Barrow-in-Furness · Academy converter	39.2	-0.63 (-0.88 to -0.38)	34%	57%	3.28	131
32 , up 2 places since 2023	Netherhall School Maryport · Community school	38.0	-0.69 (-0.94 to -0.44)	27%	50%	3.02	127
33= , down 7 places since 2023	St John Henry Newman Catholic School Carlisle · Voluntary aided school	36.9	-0.69 (-1.01 to -0.37)	20%	46%	3.36	95
33= , down 12 places since 2023	St Josephs Catholic High School, Workington Workington · Academy converter	36.9	-0.63 (-0.90 to -0.35)	24%	44%	3.02	102
35 , down 20 places since 2023	Samuel King's School Alston · Foundation school	36.4	-0.24 (-1.01 to 0.53)	23%	54%	2.92	13
36 , down 5 places since 2023	Walney Academy Barrow-in-Furness · Academy sponsor led	34.4	-1.20 (-1.55 to -0.84)	25%	41%	2.99	61
37 , up 2 places since 2023	Beacon Hill Community School Wigton · Community school	30.7	-1.37 (-1.87 to -0.87)	22%	31%	2.67	32
38	Energy Coast UTC Workington · University technical college	27.5	-1.60 (-1.86 to -1.35)	23%	48%	2.65	125
39 , down 2 places since 2023	Solway Community School Wigton · Community school	24.0	-1.90 (-2.47 to -1.34)	4%	20%	2.17	25

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

Under each rank: the change since the 2023 table, in places gained (+) or lost (−). No figure means the rank is unchanged or the school had no ranked 2023 result.

Independent schools in Cumbria 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
Austin Friars Carlisle · Other independent school	12.4	0%	39
Sedbergh School Sedbergh (La10 5hg) · Other independent school	20.7	0%	206
St Bees School Other independent school	2.2	0%	19
Windermere School The Lake District · Other independent school	12.0	0%	29

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

See the best secondary schools in Cumbria on our composite score

Cumbria GCSE results 2024: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Cumbria ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Cumbria with published 2024 GCSE results

More about schools in Cumbria

Cumbria GCSE results: common questions