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

On 2023 Attainment 8, Old Swinford Hospital topped the table in Dudley with 55.1, 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 Dudley GCSE results?

This page is the 2023 archive (the 2022/23 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Dudley are on the main Dudley 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 Dudley 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.

Dudley GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

18 state secondary schools in Dudley 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 school with no published results is listed at the end. 1 independent school with published results is listed separately, unranked.

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

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

Secondary schools in Dudley ranked on Attainment 8

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

Secondary schools in Dudley 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	Old Swinford Hospital Stourbridge · Voluntary aided school	55.1	+0.41 (0.07 to 0.76)	63%	90%	4.74	82
2 , down 1 place since 2022	Summerhill School Kingswinford · Community school	50.8	+0.25 (0.05 to 0.44)	56%	79%	4.46	205
3 , up 2 places since 2022	Kingswinford Academy Kingswinford · Academy converter	47.4	+0.23 (0.02 to 0.45)	44%	63%	3.97	169
4	Redhill School Stourbridge · Academy converter	46.9	-0.07 (-0.25 to 0.11)	46%	72%	4.45	249
5 , up 1 place since 2022	Windsor High School and Sixth Form Halesowen · Academy converter	46.6	+0.12 (-0.04 to 0.29)	42%	63%	3.94	283
6= , down 3 places since 2022	Bishop Milner Catholic College Dudley · Academy converter	45.1	+0.04 (-0.20 to 0.27)	36%	63%	3.64	150
6= , up 3 places since 2022	The Earls High School Halesowen · Academy converter	45.1	-0.19 (-0.37 to -0.01)	44%	63%	3.89	232
8	The Dormston School Dudley · Community school	44.0	-0.08 (-0.26 to 0.11)	43%	62%	3.54	225
9 , up 4 places since 2022	The Crestwood School Dudley · Academy sponsor led	41.9	-0.25 (-0.46 to -0.03)	32%	58%	3.23	173
10 , down 3 places since 2022	Ridgewood High School Stourbridge · Academy converter	41.3	-0.19 (-0.42 to 0.04)	28%	55%	3.42	143
11 , down 1 place since 2022	Ellowes Hall Sports College Dudley · Academy converter	41.1	-0.33 (-0.51 to -0.14)	35%	57%	3.18	220
12 , up 3 places since 2022	Thorns Collegiate Academy Brierley Hill · Academy sponsor led	40.9	-0.25 (-0.47 to -0.04)	33%	56%	3.26	171
13 , up 2 places since 2022	Beacon Hill Academy Dudley · Academy converter	39.6	-0.02 (-0.24 to 0.20)	33%	56%	3.15	165
14	Leasowes High School Halesowen · Academy converter	39.5	-0.44 (-0.65 to -0.24)	29%	51%	3.54	184
15 , down 4 places since 2022	The Link Academy Dudley · Academy sponsor led	39.4	+0.06 (-0.16 to 0.28)	33%	52%	3.22	169
16 , down 4 places since 2022	Pegasus Academy Dudley · Academy converter	39.0	+0.07 (-0.19 to 0.33)	21%	48%	3.25	130
17 , up 1 place since 2022	St James Academy Dudley · Academy converter	38.4	+0.03 (-0.24 to 0.30)	38%	53%	3.30	125
18 , down 3 places since 2022	The Pedmore High School Stourbridge · Academy converter	36.9	-0.39 (-0.67 to -0.11)	17%	39%	2.93	104
–	The Wordsley School Stourbridge · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–

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 Dudley 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
Elmfield Rudolf Steiner School Limited Stourbridge · Other independent school	19.6	26%	38

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

See the best secondary schools in Dudley on our composite score

Dudley GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Dudley ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Dudley with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Dudley

Dudley GCSE results: common questions