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

On 2024 Attainment 8, Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School topped the table in Leeds with 59.1, 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 Leeds GCSE results?

This page is the 2024 archive (the 2023/24 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 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.

Leeds GCSE results 2024: secondary school league table

42 state secondary schools in Leeds 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. 3 schools with no published results are listed at the end. 3 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

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

Local Authority 45 state secondary schools 2023/24 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Leeds ranked on Attainment 8

42 of 45 schools have published 2024 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2023/24.

Secondary schools in Leeds 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	Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School Leeds · Voluntary aided school	59.1	+0.66 (0.45 to 0.87)	69%	88%	5.08	179
2	Abbey Grange Church of England Academy Leeds · Academy converter	58.7	+0.70 (0.53 to 0.87)	70%	85%	5.42	267
3	Allerton High School Leeds · Community school	58.3	+0.89 (0.70 to 1.09)	77%	88%	5.47	222
4	St. Mary's Menston Ilkley · Academy converter	56.5	+0.41 (0.21 to 0.61)	66%	83%	5.21	199
5	Roundhay School Leeds · Community school	56.3	+0.72 (0.55 to 0.88)	68%	83%	5.18	299
6	Horsforth School Leeds · Academy converter	55.8	+0.40 (0.21 to 0.58)	64%	86%	5.17	225
7	Boston Spa Academy Wetherby · Academy converter	54.1	+0.56 (0.36 to 0.75)	64%	76%	5.20	218
8	The Morley Academy Leeds · Academy converter	53.8	+0.56 (0.39 to 0.73)	56%	81%	5.13	291
9	Otley Prince Henry's Grammar School Specialist Language College Otley · Academy converter	53.4	+0.34 (0.18 to 0.51)	63%	84%	4.92	278
10	Leeds Jewish Free School Leeds · Free schools	52.4	+0.45 (-0.12 to 1.01)	55%	90%	4.48	31
11	Mount St Mary's Catholic High School Leeds · Voluntary aided school	51.8	+0.86 (0.64 to 1.07)	41%	69%	4.41	189
12=	Carr Manor Community School Leeds · Foundation school	50.5	+0.56 (0.36 to 0.77)	55%	69%	4.51	199
12=	Garforth Academy Leeds · Academy converter	50.5	+0.34 (0.18 to 0.51)	67%	82%	4.82	298
14	The Ruth Gorse Academy Leeds · Free schools	50.4	+0.99 (0.81 to 1.17)	50%	73%	4.81	255
15	Woodkirk Academy Wakefield · Academy converter	49.8	+0.15 (-0.01 to 0.31)	57%	77%	4.73	307
16	Guiseley School Leeds · Foundation school	49.4	-0.04 (-0.23 to 0.16)	52%	77%	4.40	214
17	The Farnley Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	49.3	+0.53 (0.36 to 0.69)	52%	73%	4.52	297
18	Wetherby High School Wetherby · Foundation school	49.2	+0.29 (0.04 to 0.54)	52%	73%	4.69	124
19	Cockburn School Leeds · Academy converter	48.4	+0.72 (0.53 to 0.90)	54%	68%	4.05	228
20	Bruntcliffe Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	48.2	+0.34 (0.16 to 0.53)	50%	72%	4.25	247
21	Rodillian Academy Wakefield · Academy converter	48.0	+0.24 (0.08 to 0.40)	54%	73%	4.48	292
22	Dixons Trinity Chapeltown Leeds · Free schools	47.8	+0.52 (0.25 to 0.79)	46%	68%	4.50	110
23	Oulton Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	46.9	+0.43 (0.23 to 0.62)	45%	69%	4.10	200
24	Temple Moor High School Leeds · Academy converter	46.3	+0.27 (0.09 to 0.46)	47%	66%	4.24	219
25	Pudsey Grammar School Pudsey · Foundation school	45.5	-0.12 (-0.32 to 0.08)	39%	60%	4.12	192
26	University Technical College Leeds Leeds · University technical college	45.1	-0.10 (-0.34 to 0.15)	44%	69%	3.41	133
27	Allerton Grange School Leeds · Community school	44.9	-0.02 (-0.19 to 0.15)	46%	62%	4.34	267
28	Brigshaw High School Castleford · Academy converter	44.4	+0.05 (-0.15 to 0.24)	42%	62%	4.08	211
29	Lawnswood School Leeds · Community school	43.5	-0.26 (-0.43 to -0.08)	42%	63%	3.84	262
30	Crawshaw Academy Pudsey · Academy sponsor led	42.9	-0.59 (-0.78 to -0.40)	43%	63%	3.70	222
31	Cockburn John Charles Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	41.6	+0.47 (0.28 to 0.66)	28%	48%	3.36	236
32	Ralph Thoresby School Leeds · Foundation school	40.7	-0.50 (-0.72 to -0.28)	35%	50%	3.50	173
33	Leeds City Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	39.8	+0.42 (0.17 to 0.67)	30%	48%	3.45	154
34	Co-op Academy Priesthorpe Pudsey · Academy converter	39.3	-0.40 (-0.60 to -0.20)	37%	52%	3.33	206
35	Leeds West Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	38.6	-0.30 (-0.48 to -0.12)	32%	49%	3.18	247
36	Bishop Young Church of England Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	36.6	-0.30 (-0.57 to -0.03)	25%	48%	2.99	141
37	Corpus Christi Catholic College Leeds · Academy converter	35.7	-0.88 (-1.09 to -0.66)	33%	51%	3.04	173
38	Dixons Unity Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	33.2	-0.54 (-0.79 to -0.29)	23%	37%	3.11	146
39	Co-op Academy Leeds Leeds · Academy sponsor led	33.0	-0.03 (-0.26 to 0.19)	22%	39%	3.16	174
40	John Smeaton Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	32.5	-0.90 (-1.13 to -0.66)	27%	42%	2.85	147
41	Leeds East Academy Leeds · Academy sponsor led	32.3	-0.87 (-1.08 to -0.67)	20%	35%	2.71	221
42	Temple Learning Academy Leeds · Free schools	29.1	-0.63 (-0.90 to -0.35)	19%	36%	2.54	117
–	Benton Park School Leeds · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2024	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Cockburn Laurence Calvert Academy Leeds · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2024	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Trinity Academy Leeds Leeds · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2024	–	–	–	–	–	–

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

Independent schools in Leeds 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
Gateways School Leeds · Other independent school	47.9	0%	51
The Grammar School At Leeds Leeds · Other independent school	44.4	0%	194
Woodhouse Grove School Bradford · Other independent school	17.8	0%	116

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 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 2024: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Leeds ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Leeds with published 2024 GCSE results

More about schools in Leeds

Leeds GCSE results: common questions