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

On 2025 Attainment 8, South Axholme Academy topped the table in Doncaster with 53.2, 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 Doncaster GCSE results?

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

Doncaster GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

20 state secondary schools in Doncaster 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.

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

Town 20 state secondary schools 2024/25 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Doncaster ranked on Attainment 8

20 of 20 schools have published 2025 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/25.

Secondary schools in Doncaster 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	South Axholme Academy Doncaster · Academy converter	53.2	61%	75%	4.65	178
2 , down 1 place since 2024	The Hayfield School Doncaster · Academy converter	52.6	61%	79%	4.31	205
3 , up 7 places since 2024	Ridgewood School Doncaster · Academy converter	49.5	55%	76%	4.28	224
4 , down 2 places since 2024	Hungerhill School Doncaster · Academy converter	49.2	50%	75%	4.58	217
5 , up 4 places since 2024	De Warenne Academy Doncaster · Academy sponsor led	48.9	54%	74%	4.28	136
6 , up 1 place since 2024	Doncaster UTC Doncaster · University technical college	48.6	35%	69%	3.63	153
7 , down 2 places since 2024	Don Valley Academy Doncaster · Academy converter	48.0	55%	72%	4.38	198
8 , down 5 places since 2024	Hall Cross Academy Doncaster · Academy converter	47.8	46%	66%	4.03	301
9 , down 3 places since 2024	Rossington All Saints Academy Doncaster · Academy sponsor led	47.4	56%	66%	4.26	144
10 , up 2 places since 2024	Ash Hill Academy Doncaster · Academy sponsor led	46.9	49%	68%	4.07	148
11 , up 7 places since 2024	Outwood Academy Adwick Doncaster · Academy sponsor led	43.7	42%	64%	3.71	188
12 , down 4 places since 2024	Sir Thomas Wharton Academy Doncaster · Academy converter	43.3	33%	55%	3.42	163
13 , up 4 places since 2024	Outwood Academy Danum Doncaster · Academy sponsor led	42.8	43%	60%	3.75	226
14 , down 4 places since 2024	The McAuley Catholic High School Doncaster · Academy converter	42.5	35%	55%	3.33	231
15	Trinity Academy Doncaster · Academy sponsor led	42.4	41%	63%	3.73	199
16	Campsmount Academy Doncaster · Academy converter	41.5	40%	61%	3.34	137
17 , down 4 places since 2024	XP School Doncaster · Free schools	39.8	28%	48%	3.53	50
18 , up 1 place since 2024	Armthorpe Academy Doncaster · Academy converter	39.5	29%	52%	3.36	128
19 , down 5 places since 2024	XP East Doncaster · Free schools	36.9	23%	44%	3.31	48
20	Astrea Academy Woodfields Doncaster · Academy sponsor led	36.8	31%	50%	3.36	112

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.

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

See the best secondary schools in Doncaster on our composite score

Doncaster GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Doncaster ranked on Attainment 8

More about schools in Doncaster

Doncaster GCSE results: common questions