Which school had the best GCSE results in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 2023?

On 2023 Attainment 8, St Mary's Catholic School topped the table in Newcastle-upon-Tyne with 56.0, against an England average of 46.3. 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 Newcastle-upon-Tyne GCSE results?

This page is the 2023 archive (the 2022/23 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Newcastle-upon-Tyne are on the main Newcastle-upon-Tyne 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 Newcastle-upon-Tyne show no 2023 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2023 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.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

16 state secondary schools in Newcastle-upon-Tyne ranked on their 2023 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2022/23 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. 5 schools with no published results are listed at the end. 5 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2023 archive of the table. See the latest Newcastle-upon-Tyne GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Town 21 state secondary schools 2022/23 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Newcastle-upon-Tyne ranked on Attainment 8

16 of 21 schools have published 2023 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2022/23.

Secondary schools in Newcastle-upon-Tyne ranked on Attainment 8, 2023 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Progress 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	46.3	0.00	45%	65%	4.05	–
1	St Mary's Catholic School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Academy converter	56.0	+0.47 (0.29 to 0.66)	61%	79%	5.23	233
2	Gosforth Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Academy converter	55.5	+0.44 (0.30 to 0.57)	64%	78%	5.19	406
3	Sacred Heart Catholic High School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Academy converter	53.5	+0.21 (0.03 to 0.40)	51%	74%	4.53	224
4	Whickham School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Academy converter	52.3	+0.15 (-0.02 to 0.33)	47%	72%	4.60	253
5 , up 2 places since 2022	George Stephenson High School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Foundation school	49.3	-0.05 (-0.24 to 0.15)	44%	71%	4.29	201
6	Jesmond Park Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Academy sponsor led	47.9	+0.03 (-0.14 to 0.19)	47%	69%	4.34	304
7 , down 2 places since 2022	St Cuthbert's High School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Academy converter	44.6	-0.44 (-0.65 to -0.24)	35%	63%	4.12	197
8 , up 2 places since 2022	Walbottle Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Academy sponsor led	41.5	-0.63 (-0.80 to -0.46)	46%	63%	3.77	298
9 , down 1 place since 2022	Longbenton High School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Foundation school	40.7	-0.58 (-0.84 to -0.32)	28%	44%	3.33	119
10 , down 1 place since 2022	North Gosforth Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Academy sponsor led	39.9	-0.45 (-0.74 to -0.15)	34%	47%	3.41	91
11 , up 2 places since 2022	Kenton School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Academy converter	37.3	-0.71 (-0.90 to -0.53)	34%	52%	3.11	268
12	Walker Riverside Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Academy converter	33.4	-1.21 (-1.40 to -1.01)	19%	40%	2.86	216
13 , up 2 places since 2022	Benfield School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Academy converter	33.2	-1.15 (-1.37 to -0.92)	22%	41%	2.89	175
14	Excelsior Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Academy sponsor led	31.9	-0.68 (-0.89 to -0.47)	19%	32%	2.65	204
15 , up 1 place since 2022	North East Futures UTC Newcastle-upon-Tyne · University technical college	31.5	-1.74 (-2.07 to -1.42)	25%	42%	2.56	85
16 , down 5 places since 2022	Studio West Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Studio schools	27.7	-1.46 (-1.74 to -1.17)	5%	19%	2.07	98
–	Callerton Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Gosforth Central Middle School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Foundation school · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Gosforth East Middle School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Foundation school · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Gosforth Junior High Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Great Park Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–

Under each rank: the change since the 2022 table, in places gained (+) or lost (−). No figure means the rank is unchanged or the school had no ranked 2022 result.

Independent schools in Newcastle-upon-Tyne with published 2023 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
Bahr Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Other independent school	14.4	0%	7
Dame Allan's Schools Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Other independent school	35.6	0%	160
Royal Grammar School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Other independent school	14.7	0%	139
The Newcastle School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Other independent school	42.3	0%	36
Westfield School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Other independent school	56.7	56%	25

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 2023 was 46.3.

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 2023 archive of the table: each school's 2023 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2023 figure is listed unranked even where it has results for a later year. The main Newcastle-upon-Tyne GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on our composite score

Newcastle-upon-Tyne GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Newcastle-upon-Tyne ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Newcastle-upon-Tyne with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Newcastle-upon-Tyne GCSE results: common questions