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

On 2023 Attainment 8, Penwortham Girls' High School topped the table in Preston with 59.5, 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 Preston GCSE results?

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

Preston GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

18 state secondary schools in Preston 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. 4 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 Preston GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Town 22 state secondary schools 2022/23 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Preston ranked on Attainment 8

18 of 22 schools have published 2023 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2022/23.

Secondary schools in Preston 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 , up 3 places since 2022	Penwortham Girls' High School Preston · Community school	59.5	+0.73 (0.50 to 0.95)	69%	92%	5.72	154
2 , down 1 place since 2022	Preston Muslim Girls High School Preston · Voluntary aided school	57.6	+1.15 (0.87 to 1.43)	66%	87%	5.57	101
3	Broughton High School Preston · Community school	57.3	+0.51 (0.30 to 0.71)	69%	86%	5.17	181
4 , up 1 place since 2022	Archbishop Temple Church of England High School Preston · Voluntary aided school	56.3	+0.12 (-0.10 to 0.35)	62%	87%	4.99	158
5 , down 4 places since 2022	All Hallows Catholic High School Preston · Voluntary aided school	52.8	+0.27 (0.06 to 0.48)	52%	84%	4.44	182
6 , up 1 place since 2022	Eden Boys' School, Preston Preston · Free schools	52.2	+0.97 (0.70 to 1.23)	59%	75%	4.84	120
7 , down 1 place since 2022	Hutton Church of England Grammar School Preston · Voluntary aided school	51.2	+0.18 (-0.07 to 0.42)	56%	78%	4.49	145
8 , up 2 places since 2022	Tarleton Academy Preston · Academy converter	48.5	+0.18 (-0.07 to 0.43)	53%	75%	4.20	129
9	Our Lady's Catholic High School Preston · Voluntary aided school	47.9	-0.05 (-0.26 to 0.16)	45%	66%	4.04	177
10 , up 3 places since 2022	St Cecilia's RC High School Preston · Voluntary aided school	47.3	+0.11 (-0.19 to 0.41)	42%	67%	4.13	93
11 , down 3 places since 2022	Lostock Hall Academy Preston · Academy converter	46.1	+0.00 (-0.28 to 0.29)	45%	68%	3.92	96
12 , down 1 place since 2022	Penwortham Priory Academy Preston · Academy converter	45.3	-0.18 (-0.39 to 0.04)	43%	64%	3.97	172
13= , up 3 places since 2022	Corpus Christi Catholic High School Preston · Voluntary aided school	45.0	+0.00 (-0.25 to 0.25)	38%	64%	3.60	150
13= , down 1 place since 2022	Garstang Community Academy Preston · Academy converter	45.0	-0.32 (-0.54 to -0.10)	40%	64%	3.84	166
15 , up 2 places since 2022	Brownedge St Mary's Catholic High School Preston · Voluntary aided school	44.8	+0.01 (-0.22 to 0.24)	46%	64%	3.85	149
16 , down 2 places since 2022	Ashton Community Science College Preston · Community school	42.0	-0.09 (-0.32 to 0.14)	36%	53%	3.65	156
17 , down 2 places since 2022	Moor Park High School Preston · Foundation school	39.8	-0.28 (-0.55 to 0.00)	34%	50%	3.37	109
18	Fulwood Academy Preston · Academy sponsor led	35.2	-0.54 (-0.81 to -0.26)	23%	47%	2.90	129
–	Carr Hill High School Preston · Academy sponsor led · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Christ The King Catholic High School Preston · Academy sponsor led · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Longridge High School Preston · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Walton-Le-Dale High School Preston · Academy sponsor led · 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 Preston 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
Abrar Academy Preston · Other independent school	48.9	72%	18
Kirkham Grammar School Preston · Other independent school	42.9	0%	106

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

See the best secondary schools in Preston on our composite score

Preston GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Preston ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Preston with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Preston

Preston GCSE results: common questions