Which school had the best GCSE results in Leeds in 2022?

On 2022 Attainment 8, Horsforth School topped the table in Leeds with 59.9. 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 Leeds GCSE results?

This page is the 2022 archive (the 2021/22 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Leeds are on the main Leeds 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 Leeds show no 2022 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2022 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.

Leeds GCSE results 2022: secondary school league table

41 state secondary schools in Leeds ranked on their 2022 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2021/22 academic year), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, Progress 8, EBacc average point score and cohort size for each school. 4 schools with no published results are listed at the end. 3 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2022 archive of the table. See the latest Leeds GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Local Authority 45 state secondary schools 2021/22 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Leeds ranked on Attainment 8

41 of 45 schools have published 2022 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2021/22.

Secondary schools in Leeds ranked on Attainment 8, 2022 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Progress 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
1	Horsforth School Leeds · Academy converter	59.9	+0.51 (0.32 to 0.69)	73%	86%	5.52	225
2	Abbey Grange Church of England Academy Leeds · Academy converter	59.8	+0.60 (0.42 to 0.78)	68%	85%	5.46	239
3	Leeds Jewish Free School Leeds · Free schools	58.9	+0.40 (-0.15 to 0.95)	82%	86%	5.25	28
4	Boston Spa Academy Wetherby · Academy converter	58.7	+0.75 (0.53 to 0.98)	73%	84%	5.11	160
5	Otley Prince Henry's Grammar School Specialist Language College Otley · Academy converter	58.4	+0.55 (0.37 to 0.72)	66%	84%	5.36	256
6	Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School Leeds · Voluntary aided school	58.0	+0.58 (0.38 to 0.79)	71%	84%	5.39	182
7	St. Mary's Menston Ilkley · Academy converter	57.5	+0.35 (0.15 to 0.54)	66%	84%	5.19	203
8	The Morley Academy Leeds · Academy converter	56.7	+0.86 (0.71 to 1.01)	59%	83%	4.94	335
9	Guiseley School Leeds · Foundation school	55.5	+0.23 (0.04 to 0.41)	67%	83%	5.12	225
10	Woodkirk Academy Wakefield · Academy converter	55.3	+0.48 (0.32 to 0.64)	69%	84%	5.12	307
11	Allerton High School Leeds · Community school	55.0	+0.19 (0.00 to 0.37)	76%	87%	5.22	221
12	Garforth Academy Leeds · Academy converter	54.1	+0.42 (0.26 to 0.58)	67%	83%	4.88	302
13	Wetherby High School Wetherby · Foundation school	53.3	+0.26 (-0.02 to 0.53)	63%	78%	4.72	105
14	The Farnley Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	53.0	+0.66 (0.49 to 0.84)	58%	73%	4.41	255
15	Roundhay School Leeds · Community school	52.8	+0.36 (0.20 to 0.52)	63%	79%	4.89	295
16	Bruntcliffe Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	51.6	+0.70 (0.47 to 0.93)	64%	75%	4.45	151
17	Brigshaw High School Castleford · Academy converter	51.2	+0.47 (0.29 to 0.66)	55%	75%	4.49	229
18=	Co-op Academy Priesthorpe Pudsey · Academy converter	49.3	+0.30 (0.09 to 0.50)	58%	73%	4.25	191
18=	Mount St Mary's Catholic High School Leeds · Voluntary aided school	49.3	+0.97 (0.74 to 1.19)	46%	71%	4.18	177
20	Temple Moor High School Leeds · Academy converter	49.0	+0.20 (0.01 to 0.39)	48%	68%	4.46	222
21	Carr Manor Community School Leeds · Foundation school	48.9	+0.35 (0.14 to 0.57)	51%	67%	4.36	210
22	The Ruth Gorse Academy Leeds · Free schools	48.8	+0.61 (0.43 to 0.79)	45%	63%	4.26	252
23=	Allerton Grange School Leeds · Community school	48.4	-0.01 (-0.18 to 0.16)	54%	69%	4.71	268
23=	Pudsey Grammar School Pudsey · Foundation school	48.4	+0.08 (-0.11 to 0.26)	45%	71%	4.15	216
25	Cockburn School Leeds · Academy converter	47.6	+0.39 (0.21 to 0.56)	45%	61%	3.73	251
26	Oulton Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	47.2	+0.11 (-0.09 to 0.31)	51%	67%	3.89	193
27	Cockburn John Charles Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	46.6	+0.53 (0.29 to 0.77)	39%	55%	3.72	170
28	Rodillian Academy Wakefield · Academy converter	46.3	-0.06 (-0.23 to 0.11)	51%	72%	4.46	273
29	Ralph Thoresby School Leeds · Foundation school	46.1	+0.00 (-0.21 to 0.21)	37%	62%	3.85	175
30	Crawshaw Academy Pudsey · Academy sponsor led	45.7	-0.38 (-0.59 to -0.17)	52%	70%	3.86	178
31	University Technical College Leeds Leeds · University technical college	42.9	-0.54 (-0.81 to -0.27)	38%	64%	3.19	107
32	Bishop Young Church of England Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	42.8	-0.32 (-0.62 to -0.02)	40%	61%	3.40	97
33	Lawnswood School Leeds · Community school	42.7	-0.18 (-0.36 to 0.00)	39%	55%	3.68	256
34	Leeds West Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	42.6	-0.21 (-0.39 to -0.03)	45%	62%	3.56	241
35	Corpus Christi Catholic College Leeds · Academy converter	41.9	-0.67 (-0.88 to -0.47)	39%	59%	3.47	180
36	Leeds East Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	37.8	-0.44 (-0.67 to -0.21)	31%	54%	3.10	174
37	Leeds City Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	37.5	+0.04 (-0.26 to 0.34)	25%	43%	3.36	141
38	John Smeaton Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	34.8	-0.80 (-1.02 to -0.58)	23%	46%	3.14	157
39	Dixons Unity Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	32.9	-0.89 (-1.14 to -0.63)	30%	42%	3.18	139
40	Co-op Academy Leeds Leeds · Academy sponsor led	29.7	-0.55 (-0.80 to -0.31)	26%	38%	2.74	156
41	Temple Learning Academy Leeds · Free schools	29.0	-0.86 (-1.19 to -0.54)	21%	34%	2.62	86
–	Benton Park School Leeds · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2022	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Cockburn Laurence Calvert Academy Leeds · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2022	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Dixons Trinity Chapeltown Leeds · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2022	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Trinity Academy Leeds Leeds · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2022	–	–	–	–	–	–

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

Independent schools in Leeds with published 2022 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
Gateways School Leeds · Other independent school	53.0	0%	25
The Grammar School At Leeds Leeds · Other independent school	45.2	0%	215
Woodhouse Grove School Bradford · Other independent school	16.8	2%	169

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.

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 2022 archive of the table: each school's 2022 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2022 figure is listed unranked even where it has results for a later year. The main Leeds GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in Leeds on our composite score

Leeds GCSE results 2022: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Leeds ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Leeds with published 2022 GCSE results

More about schools in Leeds

Leeds GCSE results: common questions