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

On 2023 Attainment 8, Devonport High School for Girls topped the table in Plymouth with 73.4, 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 Plymouth GCSE results?

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

Plymouth GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

18 state secondary schools in Plymouth 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. 1 school with no published results is listed at the end. 1 independent school with published results is listed separately, unranked.

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

Town 19 state secondary schools 2022/23 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Plymouth ranked on Attainment 8

18 of 19 schools have published 2023 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2022/23.

Secondary schools in Plymouth 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	Devonport High School for Girls Plymouth · Academy converter	73.4	+0.50 (0.25 to 0.76)	98%	100%	6.91	124
2	Devonport High School for Boys Plymouth · Academy converter	69.1	+0.36 (0.14 to 0.57)	96%	97%	5.94	179
3	Plymouth High School for Girls Plymouth · Academy converter	65.6	+0.19 (-0.07 to 0.46)	89%	99%	6.03	115
4 , up 2 places since 2022	Hele's School Plymouth · Academy converter	50.0	+0.13 (-0.07 to 0.32)	57%	76%	4.69	208
5 , up 9 places since 2022	Scott Medical and Healthcare College Plymouth · Studio schools	47.2	+0.06 (-0.27 to 0.40)	49%	69%	3.37	74
6 , up 4 places since 2022	Lipson Co-operative Academy Plymouth · Academy converter	45.4	+0.24 (0.03 to 0.46)	40%	60%	3.62	178
7= , down 3 places since 2022	Coombe Dean School Plymouth · Academy converter	45.1	+0.01 (-0.22 to 0.23)	40%	75%	4.04	163
7= , down 2 places since 2022	Plymstock School Plymouth · Academy converter	45.1	-0.15 (-0.31 to 0.02)	39%	61%	4.03	292
9	Plympton Academy Plymouth · Academy converter	43.2	-0.21 (-0.43 to 0.00)	34%	53%	3.47	175
10 , up 6 places since 2022	Stoke Damerel Community College Plymouth · Academy converter	43.1	+0.21 (0.01 to 0.41)	36%	53%	3.39	211
11 , down 3 places since 2022	Marine Academy Plymouth Plymouth · Academy sponsor led	42.7	-0.33 (-0.57 to -0.09)	33%	55%	3.56	139
12 , down 5 places since 2022	Notre Dame RC School Plymouth · Academy converter	40.9	-0.31 (-0.56 to -0.06)	30%	54%	3.36	133
13 , down 2 places since 2022	Eggbuckland Community College Plymouth · Academy converter	39.1	-0.35 (-0.57 to -0.13)	29%	48%	3.38	168
14 , down 1 place since 2022	Tor Bridge High Plymouth · Academy converter	38.2	-0.50 (-0.70 to -0.30)	22%	51%	3.08	200
15 , down 3 places since 2022	All Saints Church of England Academy Plymouth · Academy sponsor led	36.8	-0.31 (-0.59 to -0.02)	26%	48%	2.96	101
16 , down 1 place since 2022	St Boniface's RC College Plymouth · Academy sponsor led	36.6	-0.63 (-0.99 to -0.28)	24%	56%	3.13	63
17	Millbay Academy Plymouth · Free schools	31.2	-0.68 (-0.99 to -0.37)	14%	33%	2.57	91
18	UTC Plymouth Plymouth · University technical college	30.4	-1.14 (-1.45 to -0.83)	14%	40%	2.16	88
–	Sir John Hunt Community Sports College Plymouth · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–

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

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 Plymouth 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
Oneschool Global Uk Plymouth Campus Plymouth · Other independent school	21.3	24%	21

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

See the best secondary schools in Plymouth on our composite score

Plymouth GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Plymouth ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Plymouth with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Plymouth

Plymouth GCSE results: common questions