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

On 2024 Attainment 8, Heckmondwike Grammar School topped the table in Kirklees with 78.5, 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 Kirklees GCSE results?

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

Kirklees GCSE results 2024: secondary school league table

25 state secondary schools in Kirklees 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. 2 schools with no published results are listed at the end. 5 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2024 archive of the table. See the latest Kirklees GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Local Authority 27 state secondary schools 2023/24 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Kirklees ranked on Attainment 8

25 of 27 schools have published 2024 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2023/24.

Secondary schools in Kirklees 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	Heckmondwike Grammar School Heckmondwike · Academy converter	78.5	+1.00 (0.80 to 1.19)	99%	100%	6.88	207
2	Holmfirth High School Holmfirth · Community school	55.3	+0.72 (0.55 to 0.90)	66%	82%	4.69	261
3=	BBG Academy Birkenshaw · Academy sponsor led	52.1	+0.48 (0.28 to 0.67)	61%	77%	4.76	199
3=	Shelley College Huddersfield · Academy converter	52.1	+0.56 (0.41 to 0.71)	61%	80%	4.96	357
5	Honley High School Holmfirth · Academy converter	51.3	+0.28 (0.11 to 0.46)	65%	76%	4.57	254
6	Salendine Nook High School Huddersfield · Academy converter	49.9	+0.21 (0.04 to 0.38)	52%	76%	4.57	277
7	Manor Croft Academy Dewsbury · Academy sponsor led	47.8	+0.25 (0.04 to 0.45)	49%	69%	4.19	198
8	Whitcliffe Mount Cleckheaton · Academy converter	47.0	+0.13 (-0.05 to 0.30)	49%	68%	4.12	240
9	Batley Girls' High School Batley · Academy converter	46.9	+0.23 (0.04 to 0.41)	43%	66%	4.22	233
10	King James's School Huddersfield · Academy converter	46.8	+0.00 (-0.19 to 0.19)	51%	65%	4.39	211
11	Moor End Academy Huddersfield · Academy converter	46.1	+0.45 (0.25 to 0.65)	46%	62%	3.79	204
12	All Saints Catholic College Huddersfield · Voluntary aided school	45.9	+0.11 (-0.11 to 0.32)	48%	69%	3.65	176
13=	Thornhill Community Academy Dewsbury · Academy converter	45.5	+0.30 (0.09 to 0.51)	46%	64%	4.02	177
13=	Upper Batley High School Batley · Academy sponsor led	45.5	+0.12 (-0.10 to 0.35)	47%	70%	4.21	161
15	The Mirfield Free Grammar Mirfield · Academy converter	45.2	-0.40 (-0.59 to -0.21)	46%	69%	3.93	217
16	Batley Grammar School Batley · Free schools	45.1	-0.22 (-0.44 to 0.00)	45%	73%	3.94	157
17	Westborough High School Dewsbury · Foundation school	42.4	+0.17 (-0.03 to 0.38)	35%	59%	3.75	187
18	Royds Hall Huddersfield · Academy sponsor led	42.0	+0.00 (-0.24 to 0.23)	34%	62%	3.69	155
19	Colne Valley High School Huddersfield · Academy sponsor led	41.9	-0.40 (-0.57 to -0.24)	35%	60%	3.65	284
20	Castle Hall Academy Mirfield · Academy converter	41.8	+0.15 (-0.09 to 0.39)	39%	57%	3.64	146
21	Newsome Academy Huddersfield · Academy sponsor led	41.6	-0.19 (-0.44 to 0.05)	33%	61%	3.87	139
22	Netherhall Learning Campus High School Select · Community school	39.3	-0.09 (-0.32 to 0.15)	32%	57%	3.13	142
23	North Huddersfield Trust School Huddersfield · Foundation school	35.3	-0.35 (-0.58 to -0.11)	24%	41%	2.92	157
24	Spen Valley High School Liversedge · Foundation school	34.1	-0.77 (-0.98 to -0.57)	26%	47%	2.90	188
25	St John Fisher Catholic Voluntary Academy Dewsbury · Academy converter	31.4	-0.99 (-1.20 to -0.78)	17%	36%	2.79	187
–	Kirkburton Middle School Huddersfield · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2024	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Scissett Middle School Huddersfield · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2024	–	–	–	–	–	–

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

Independent schools in Kirklees 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
Brian Jackson College Heckmondwike · Other independent school	0.6	0%	26
Cambridge Street School Batley · Other independent school	20.2	9%	22
Huddersfield Grammar School Huddersfield · Other independent school	62.5	76%	74
Madni Academy Dewsbury · Other independent school	48.6	37%	27
Rida Girls High School West Yorkshire · Other independent school	60.0	82%	28

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

See the best secondary schools in Kirklees on our composite score

Kirklees GCSE results 2024: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Kirklees ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Kirklees with published 2024 GCSE results

More about schools in Kirklees

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