Which school has the best GCSE results in Leeds?

On 2025 Attainment 8, Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School tops the table in Leeds with 58.0, against an England average of 46.0. 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 Leeds 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 2025 results, the 2024/25 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 2025 because these pupils sat no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020.

Why does a school in Leeds 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.

Leeds GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

42 state secondary schools in Leeds ranked on their 2025 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2024/25 academic year, the latest DfE has published for every school), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc average point score and cohort size for each school against the England average. 3 schools with no published results are listed at the end. 4 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

Local Authority 45 state secondary schools 2024/25 results

Secondary schools in Leeds ranked on Attainment 8

42 of 45 schools have published 2025 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/25.

Secondary schools in Leeds ranked on Attainment 8, 2025 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	46.0	45%	65%	4.09	–
1	Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School Leeds · Voluntary aided school	58.0	73%	83%	5.13	175
2	Horsforth School Leeds · Academy converter	57.3	62%	83%	5.47	251
3	Abbey Grange Church of England Academy Leeds · Academy converter	55.9	62%	84%	5.19	239
4	Boston Spa Academy Wetherby · Academy converter	55.6	71%	84%	5.28	229
5	Leeds Jewish Free School Leeds · Free schools	55.2	59%	74%	4.94	27
6	Roundhay School Leeds · Community school	55.1	67%	82%	5.15	304
7	St. Mary's Menston Ilkley · Academy converter	55.0	60%	80%	5.10	192
8=	Otley Prince Henry's Grammar School Specialist Language College Otley · Academy converter	54.6	62%	82%	5.02	252
8=	The Morley Academy Leeds · Academy converter	54.6	60%	77%	5.22	273
10	Allerton High School Leeds · Community school	54.3	69%	84%	5.17	227
11	Garforth Academy Leeds · Academy converter	53.1	65%	81%	5.11	301
12	Woodkirk Academy Wakefield · Academy converter	52.8	63%	78%	5.05	280
13=	Guiseley School Leeds · Foundation school	49.6	52%	74%	4.40	222
13=	Mount St Mary's Catholic High School Leeds · Voluntary aided school	49.6	39%	65%	4.19	190
15	Wetherby High School Wetherby · Foundation school	49.4	53%	72%	4.65	130
16=	Cockburn School Leeds · Academy converter	49.1	45%	69%	4.03	274
16=	The Farnley Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	49.1	51%	71%	4.54	293
16=	The Ruth Gorse Academy Leeds · Free schools	49.1	53%	75%	4.70	255
19	Carr Manor Community School Leeds · Foundation school	48.8	51%	67%	4.44	217
20	Allerton Grange School Leeds · Community school	48.2	50%	67%	4.70	304
21	Brigshaw High School Castleford · Academy converter	47.4	46%	68%	4.15	233
22	Dixons Trinity Chapeltown Leeds · Free schools	46.6	39%	68%	4.35	109
23	Rodillian Academy Wakefield · Academy converter	46.4	52%	69%	4.31	314
24	University Technical College Leeds Leeds · University technical college	46.2	45%	67%	3.47	131
25	Bruntcliffe Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	46.0	45%	67%	4.06	276
26	Temple Moor High School Leeds · Academy converter	45.9	47%	65%	4.12	223
27	Crawshaw Academy Pudsey · Academy sponsor led	45.2	46%	66%	3.82	220
28	Oulton Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	44.9	52%	67%	3.94	210
29	Pudsey Grammar School Pudsey · Foundation school	44.0	43%	63%	3.86	225
30	Cockburn John Charles Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	43.8	37%	53%	3.65	241
31	Lawnswood School Leeds · Community school	42.3	40%	57%	3.67	261
32	Leeds West Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	41.7	38%	61%	3.48	282
33	Co-op Academy Priesthorpe Pudsey · Academy converter	41.1	35%	62%	3.47	206
34	Ralph Thoresby School Leeds · Foundation school	39.7	36%	56%	3.50	174
35	Leeds City Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	38.3	34%	48%	3.39	214
36	Bishop Young Church of England Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	36.9	31%	51%	3.12	173
37	Dixons Unity Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	36.0	24%	47%	3.46	174
38	Corpus Christi Catholic College Leeds · Academy converter	35.1	30%	51%	3.21	173
39	Temple Learning Academy Leeds · Free schools	33.7	28%	41%	2.94	117
40	Leeds East Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	32.7	22%	36%	2.69	219
41	Co-op Academy Leeds Leeds · Academy sponsor led	30.5	18%	34%	2.91	172
42	John Smeaton Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	29.5	14%	35%	2.57	112
–	Benton Park School Leeds · Academy converter · No published GCSE results	–	–	–	–	–
–	Cockburn Laurence Calvert Academy Leeds · Free schools · No published GCSE results	–	–	–	–	–
–	Trinity Academy Leeds Leeds · Free schools · No published GCSE results	–	–	–	–	–

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

Independent schools in Leeds 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
Al Kauthar Girls Academy Leeds · Other independent school	35.4	57%	7
Gateways School Leeds · Other independent school	45.1	0%	45
The Grammar School At Leeds Leeds · Other independent school	44.8	0%	209
Woodhouse Grove School Bradford · Other independent school	22.2	0%	107

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 46.0.

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, and the same applies to 2026. 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 Leeds on our composite score

Leeds GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Leeds ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Leeds with published GCSE results

More about schools in Leeds

Leeds GCSE results: common questions