Which school had the best GCSE results in Oxfordshire in 2025?

On 2025 Attainment 8, Gillotts School topped the table in Oxfordshire with 61.3, against an England average of 46.1. 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 Oxfordshire GCSE results?

This page is the 2025 archive (the 2024/25 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Oxfordshire are on the main Oxfordshire 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. No Progress 8 exists for 2025 because these pupils sat no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020.

Why does a school in Oxfordshire show no 2025 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2025 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.

Oxfordshire GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

41 state secondary schools in Oxfordshire ranked on their 2025 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2024/25 academic year), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc average point score and cohort size for each school against the England average. 1 school with no published results is listed at the end. 21 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2025 archive of the table. See the latest Oxfordshire GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Local Authority 42 state secondary schools 2024/25 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Oxfordshire ranked on Attainment 8

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

Secondary schools in Oxfordshire ranked on Attainment 8, 2025 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	46.1	45%	65%	4.09	–
1 , up 4 places since 2024	Gillotts School Henley-on-Thames · Academy converter	61.3	76%	87%	5.74	171
2 , down 1 place since 2024	Didcot Girls' School Didcot · Academy converter	58.8	72%	87%	5.57	262
3 , down 1 place since 2024	The Cherwell School Oxford · Academy converter	58.3	66%	79%	5.32	269
4	Langtree School Reading · Academy converter	58.0	71%	80%	5.22	116
5 , down 2 places since 2024	Bartholomew School Witney · Academy converter	57.0	67%	80%	5.00	213
6 , up 5 places since 2024	Matthew Arnold School Oxford · Academy converter	56.5	65%	83%	5.28	207
7= , up 2 places since 2024	The Marlborough Church of England School Woodstock · Academy converter	55.4	63%	80%	5.02	179
7= , down 1 place since 2024	The Swan School Oxford · Free schools	55.4	68%	80%	5.44	120
9 , up 1 place since 2024	Wallingford School Wallingford · Academy converter	53.9	63%	81%	4.86	221
10 , up 4 places since 2024	Burford School Burford · Academy converter	52.4	60%	81%	4.54	245
11 , down 4 places since 2024	Wheatley Park School Oxford · Academy converter	51.5	57%	77%	4.58	174
12 , up 5 places since 2024	Icknield Community College Watlington · Academy converter	51.2	52%	66%	4.91	130
13 , down 5 places since 2024	Chipping Norton School Chipping Norton · Academy converter	49.3	60%	77%	3.93	166
14 , down 1 place since 2024	Blessed George Napier Catholic School and Sixth Form Banbury · Academy converter	48.5	42%	73%	4.31	139
15 , down 3 places since 2024	St Birinus School Didcot · Academy converter	48.2	51%	71%	4.44	171
16 , up 6 places since 2024	The Bicester School Bicester · Academy sponsor led	47.9	49%	65%	4.37	204
17 , up 7 places since 2024	North Oxfordshire Academy Banbury · Academy sponsor led	46.8	52%	68%	4.31	174
18	Whitelands Academy Bicester · Free schools	46.4	54%	71%	4.26	114
19 , down 4 places since 2024	Oxford Spires Academy Oxford · Academy sponsor led	46.3	50%	71%	4.17	215
20= , down 4 places since 2024	Lord Williams's School Thame · Academy converter	46.2	48%	68%	4.04	345
20= , up 10 places since 2024	Wood Green School Witney · Academy converter	46.2	48%	71%	3.95	215
22= , down 4 places since 2024	Cheney School Oxford · Academy converter	46.0	49%	62%	4.10	282
22= , down 2 places since 2024	Fitzharrys School Abingdon · Academy converter	46.0	53%	69%	4.34	114
24 , up 3 places since 2024	King Alfred's Wantage · Academy converter	45.4	44%	63%	3.93	233
25 , down 2 places since 2024	Gosford Hill School Kidlington · Academy converter	45.3	42%	62%	3.97	123
26 , up 5 places since 2024	John Mason School Abingdon · Academy converter	44.5	42%	59%	4.14	179
27= , up 7 places since 2024	Maiden Erlegh Chiltern Edge Reading · Academy sponsor led	44.3	45%	63%	4.02	67
27= , down 7 places since 2024	The Warriner School Banbury · Academy converter	44.3	43%	62%	3.89	266
29 , down 10 places since 2024	Faringdon Community College Faringdon · Academy converter	43.7	40%	57%	3.73	229
30 , up 3 places since 2024	The Henry Box School Witney · Academy converter	42.2	36%	57%	3.57	168
31 , down 7 places since 2024	The Cooper School Bicester · Academy converter	41.7	40%	60%	3.59	220
32 , down 4 places since 2024	Futures Institute Banbury Banbury · Studio schools	41.1	38%	64%	3.35	47
33 , down 4 places since 2024	Heyford Park School Bicester · Free schools	39.7	36%	58%	3.37	59
34 , down 8 places since 2024	Larkmead School Abingdon · Academy converter	39.4	35%	55%	3.44	144
35 , up 3 places since 2024	Wykham Park Banbury · Academy sponsor led	34.8	25%	50%	3.31	114
36 , down 4 places since 2024	Greyfriars Catholic School Oxford · Academy converter	34.0	29%	44%	2.78	90
37 , down 1 place since 2024	Carterton Community College Carterton · Community school	33.8	19%	42%	3.07	111
38 , down 1 place since 2024	Aureus School Didcot · Academy sponsor led	33.7	19%	45%	2.83	98
39	The Oxford Academy Oxford · Academy sponsor led	33.6	21%	42%	2.71	200
40 , down 5 places since 2024	UTC Oxfordshire Didcot · University technical college	32.5	26%	49%	2.46	73
41 , down 1 place since 2024	Europa School UK Abingdon · Free schools	0.9	2%	2%	0.10	58
–	St Johns CofE Academy Wantage · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2025	–	–	–	–	–

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

Under each rank: the change since the 2024 table, in places gained (+) or lost (−). No figure means the rank is unchanged or the school had no ranked 2024 result.

Independent schools in Oxfordshire with published 2025 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
Abingdon School Abingdon · Other independent school	16.4	0%	196
Bloxham School Banbury · Other independent school	40.6	0%	91
Bruern Abbey School Bicester · Other independent school	26.3	0%	30
Cokethorpe School Witney · Other independent school	32.0	0%	73
Cranford School Wallingford · Other independent school	18.7	0%	136
d'Overbroeck's Oxford · Other independent school	64.8	91%	46
Headington School Oxford Oxford · Other independent school	32.6	38%	314
Kingham Hill School Chipping Norton · Other independent school	34.7	0%	51
Magdalen College School Oxford · Other independent school	45.0	0%	113
Oxford High School GDST Oxford · Other independent school	19.4	0%	92
Oxford International College Other independent school	1.7	0%	133
Oxford Montessori Schools Oxford · Other independent school	25.8	0%	11
Radley College Other independent school	36.0	0%	154
Shiplake College Henley-on-Thames · Other independent school	31.5	0%	84
Sibford School Banbury · Other independent school	40.6	38%	63
St Edward's School Oxford · Other independent school	10.8	0%	152
St Helen and St Katharine Abingdon · Other independent school	71.8	98%	98
The King's School Witney · Other independent school	54.8	68%	22
The Oratory School Other independent school	29.2	0%	71
Tudor Hall School Banbury · Other independent school	26.6	0%	44
Wychwood School Oxford · Other independent school	46.4	0%	24

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 46.1.

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. 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.

This is the 2025 archive of the table: each school's 2025 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2025 figure is listed unranked even where it has results for a later year. The main Oxfordshire GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in Oxfordshire on our composite score

Oxfordshire GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Oxfordshire ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Oxfordshire with published 2025 GCSE results

More about schools in Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire GCSE results: common questions