Which school has the best GCSE results in Hackney?

On 2026 Attainment 8, Mossbourne Community Academy tops the table in Hackney with 67.2, against an England average of 46.2. 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.

When are the 2026 GCSE results for Hackney schools published?

Pupils receive their results in August, but school-by-school figures come from the DfE performance tables, which publish provisional results in the autumn (usually mid-October) and revised figures early in the new year. This table shows 2026 results, the 2025/26 academic year, and updates when the next release is imported.

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 2026 because these pupils sat no Key Stage 2 tests in 2021.

Why does a school in Hackney show no GCSE results?

A school has no published figure when it had no Year 11 cohort in the year (a new school, or one that opened with younger year groups), when it converted to an academy and the DfE published 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.

Hackney GCSE results 2026: secondary school league table

16 state secondary schools in Hackney ranked on their 2026 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2025/26 academic year, the latest DfE has published for every school), with grade 7+, grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, cohort size for each school against the England average. 9 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

Local Authority 16 state secondary schools 2025/26 results

Secondary schools in Hackney ranked on Attainment 8

16 of 16 schools have published 2026 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2025/26.

Secondary schools in Hackney ranked on Attainment 8, 2026 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Grade 7+ English & maths	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	46.2	14%	46%	65%	–	–
1	Mossbourne Community Academy London · Academy sponsor led	67.2	47%	81%	88%	–	202
2	Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy London · Academy sponsor led	65.1	48%	75%	85%	–	162
3	Clapton Girls' Academy London · Academy converter	60.7	34%	72%	84%	–	179
4	Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School London · Voluntary aided school	55.8	11%	70%	91%	–	74
5 , up 2 places since 2025	Haggerston School London · Academy converter	53.4	19%	61%	79%	–	157
6 , up 2 places since 2025	The City Academy, Hackney London · Academy sponsor led	53.2	26%	62%	77%	–	188
7 , up 2 places since 2025	Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form London · Community school	52.2	21%	54%	74%	–	256
8 , down 3 places since 2025	The Bridge Academy London · Academy sponsor led	51.6	23%	51%	71%	–	175
9= , down 3 places since 2025	City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park London · Free schools	50.9	16%	57%	76%	–	168
9= , up 1 place since 2025	Skinners' Academy London · Academy sponsor led	50.9	21%	53%	73%	–	165
11 , up 4 places since 2025	Lubavitch House School (Senior Girls) London · Academy converter	48.2	12%	60%	92%	–	25
12 , up 1 place since 2025	All Saints Catholic High School London · Voluntary aided school	48.1	13%	51%	73%	–	78
13 , down 2 places since 2025	The Excelsior Academy London · Academy sponsor led	46.6	15%	48%	66%	–	163
14	Cardinal Pole Catholic School London · Academy converter	46.1	11%	49%	70%	–	162
15 , down 3 places since 2025	Waterside Academy London · Free schools	45.5	16%	40%	57%	–	94
16	The Urswick School London · Voluntary aided school	41.7	9%	35%	63%	–	139

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

Under each rank: the change since the 2025 table, in places gained (+) or lost (−). No figure means the rank is unchanged or the school had no ranked 2025 result.

Independent schools in Hackney with published 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
Beis Chinuch Lebonos Girls School London · Other independent school	40.7	54%	54
Beis Malka Girls' School London · Other independent school	35.5	72%	32
Beis Rochel d'Satmar Girls' School London · Other independent school	17.5	49%	59
Beis Trana Girls' School London · Other independent school	10.8	23%	13
Bnos Zion of Bobov Other independent school	47.2	65%	23
Tawhid Boys School, Tawhid Educational Trust London · Other independent school	49.2	65%	17
Tayyibah Girls' School London · Other independent school	59.6	82%	11
Vishnitz Girls School Other independent school	22.2	36%	47
Yesodey Hatorah School London · Other independent school	9.4	10%	10

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 2026 was 46.2.

Grade 7+ in English and maths is the share of pupils reaching the top grades, 7 to 9, in both; grade 5+ is the "strong pass"; grade 4+ is the "standard pass". The DfE stopped publishing EBacc entry and the EBacc average point score from the 2025/26 results, so that column is empty for 2026.

Progress 8 is not shown: the DfE published no Progress 8 for 2026 because these pupils sat no Key Stage 2 tests in 2021, 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.

See the best secondary schools in Hackney on our composite score

Hackney GCSE results 2026: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Hackney ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Hackney with published GCSE results

More about schools in Hackney

Hackney GCSE results: common questions