Which school had the best GCSE results in Northamptonshire in 2023?

On 2023 Attainment 8, Bishop Stopford School topped the table in Northamptonshire with 60.7, 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 Northamptonshire GCSE results?

This page is the 2023 archive (the 2022/23 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Northamptonshire are on the main Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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.

Northamptonshire GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

37 state secondary schools in Northamptonshire 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. 3 schools with no published results are listed at the end. 2 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2023 archive of the table. See the latest Northamptonshire GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

County 40 state secondary schools 2022/23 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Northamptonshire ranked on Attainment 8

37 of 40 schools have published 2023 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2022/23.

Secondary schools in Northamptonshire 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	Bishop Stopford School Kettering · Academy converter	60.7	+0.88 (0.69 to 1.08)	71%	84%	5.77	213
2	Northampton School for Boys Northampton · Academy converter	59.1	+0.57 (0.37 to 0.76)	78%	89%	5.44	213
3	Northampton School for Girls Northampton · Academy converter	56.6	+0.68 (0.51 to 0.85)	61%	80%	5.10	276
4	Sponne School Towcester · Academy converter	54.3	+0.21 (0.02 to 0.39)	68%	87%	4.85	230
5	Northampton Academy Northampton · Academy sponsor led	53.1	+1.00 (0.83 to 1.18)	60%	77%	4.56	267
6	Kettering Buccleuch Academy Kettering · Academy sponsor led	53.0	+0.58 (0.39 to 0.76)	53%	77%	4.91	234
7	Sir Christopher Hatton Academy Wellingborough · Academy converter	52.7	+0.59 (0.40 to 0.78)	55%	75%	4.82	218
8	Brooke Weston Academy Great Oakley · Academy sponsor led	52.6	+0.57 (0.36 to 0.78)	57%	78%	4.94	180
9	Caroline Chisholm School Northampton · Academy converter	51.9	+0.10 (-0.07 to 0.27)	57%	77%	4.66	276
10	Guilsborough Academy Northampton · Academy converter	49.4	+0.00 (-0.19 to 0.18)	54%	70%	4.41	230
11	Prince William School Oundle · Academy sponsor led	48.8	+0.14 (-0.06 to 0.34)	51%	75%	4.23	199
12	Southfield School for Girls Kettering · Academy converter	48.6	+0.04 (-0.16 to 0.24)	50%	71%	4.51	195
13	The Latimer Arts College Kettering · Foundation school	48.5	+0.36 (0.16 to 0.56)	49%	69%	4.10	195
14	Moulton School and Science College Northampton · Academy converter	46.7	-0.21 (-0.39 to -0.02)	40%	68%	4.16	235
15	The Duston School Northampton · Academy converter	46.5	+0.17 (-0.02 to 0.35)	45%	69%	4.33	239
16	Campion School Northampton · Academy converter	46.4	-0.04 (-0.24 to 0.15)	39%	73%	4.02	215
17	Corby Technical School Corby · Free schools	46.3	+0.01 (-0.23 to 0.24)	46%	67%	4.21	147
18	Wollaston School Wellingborough · Academy converter	45.2	-0.05 (-0.23 to 0.13)	44%	68%	3.77	232
19	The Ferrers School Rushden · Academy converter	44.3	-0.23 (-0.44 to -0.02)	35%	65%	3.85	173
20	Rushden Academy Rushden · Academy sponsor led	43.9	-0.01 (-0.26 to 0.23)	32%	60%	3.61	133
21	Kingsthorpe College Northampton · Academy converter	42.6	-0.05 (-0.24 to 0.13)	36%	62%	3.61	242
22	Kingswood Secondary Academy Corby · Academy sponsor led	42.1	+0.16 (-0.03 to 0.36)	32%	58%	3.48	205
23	Malcolm Arnold Academy Northampton · Academy sponsor led	42.0	-0.15 (-0.34 to 0.05)	36%	58%	3.75	229
24	Weavers Academy Wellingborough · Academy sponsor led	41.2	-0.11 (-0.29 to 0.08)	31%	54%	3.50	234
25=	Corby Business Academy Corby · Academy sponsor led	40.3	+0.00 (-0.21 to 0.20)	40%	55%	3.53	187
25=	Wrenn School Wellingborough · Academy sponsor led	40.3	+0.06 (-0.16 to 0.27)	28%	51%	3.37	195
27=	Abbeyfield School Northampton · Academy sponsor led	40.1	-0.29 (-0.47 to -0.10)	31%	57%	3.52	233
27=	Huxlow Academy Irthlingborough · Academy converter	40.1	-0.32 (-0.56 to -0.08)	31%	52%	3.53	147
29	Kettering Science Academy Kettering · Academy sponsor led	40.0	-0.04 (-0.23 to 0.14)	29%	50%	3.64	234
30	DSLV E-ACT Academy Daventry · Academy sponsor led	39.9	-0.30 (-0.61 to 0.00)	33%	61%	3.22	87
31	Manor School Wellingborough · Academy converter	39.8	-0.50 (-0.71 to -0.29)	27%	50%	3.37	171
32=	The Parker E-ACT Academy Daventry · Academy sponsor led	38.2	-0.32 (-0.53 to -0.10)	34%	55%	3.05	182
32=	Weston Favell Academy Northampton · Academy sponsor led	38.2	-0.22 (-0.42 to -0.03)	32%	49%	3.22	232
34	Silverstone UTC Towcester · University technical college	37.7	-0.83 (-1.10 to -0.56)	21%	57%	2.56	111
35	St Thomas Becket Catholic School Northampton · Academy converter	36.9	-0.23 (-0.50 to 0.04)	33%	46%	3.25	131
36	Lodge Park Academy Corby · Academy sponsor led	34.8	-0.60 (-0.82 to -0.38)	21%	39%	3.08	188
37	Northampton International Academy Northampton · Free schools	34.5	-0.78 (-0.96 to -0.61)	21%	42%	3.00	281
–	Montsaye Academy Kettering · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Northampton School Northampton · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Weldon Village Academy Corby · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–

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

Independent schools in Northamptonshire 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
Pitsford School Northampton · Other independent school	55.3	74%	39
Wellingborough School Wellingborough · Other independent school	32.2	0%	100

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

See the best secondary schools in Northamptonshire on our composite score

Northamptonshire GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Northamptonshire ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Northamptonshire with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire GCSE results: common questions