When are the 2026 GCSE results for Reading schools published?

Pupils receive their results in August, but school-by-school figures come from the DfE performance tables, which publish provisional results in the autumn (usually mid-October) and revised figures early in the new year. This table shows 2025 results, the 2024/25 academic year, and updates when the next release is imported.

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 Reading show no GCSE results?

A school has no published figure when it had no Year 11 cohort in the year (a new school, or one that opened with younger year groups), when it converted to an academy and the DfE published 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.

Reading GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

Q: Which school has the best GCSE results in Reading?

On 2025 Attainment 8, Kendrick School tops the table in Reading with 84.0, against an England average of 46.0. 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.

19 state secondary schools in Reading ranked on their 2025 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2024/25 academic year, the latest DfE has published for every school), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, 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. 6 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

Town 22 state secondary schools 2024/25 results

Secondary schools in Reading ranked on Attainment 8

19 of 22 schools have published 2025 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/25.

Secondary schools in Reading ranked on Attainment 8, 2025 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	46.0	45%	65%	4.09	–
1	Kendrick School Reading · Academy converter	84.0	100%	100%	8.29	128
2	Reading School Reading · Academy converter	83.0	100%	100%	8.25	149
3	The Piggott School Reading · Academy converter	61.9	75%	91%	5.49	213
4	Langtree School Reading · Academy converter	58.0	71%	80%	5.22	116
5	Maiden Erlegh School Reading · Academy converter	55.5	65%	77%	5.15	279
6	The Willink School Reading · Community school	51.9	57%	73%	5.02	203
7	Reading Girls' School Reading · Academy sponsor led	51.8	55%	75%	4.62	167
8	Waingels Reading · Academy converter	50.8	54%	77%	4.68	239
9	The Bulmershe School Reading · Academy converter	50.7	56%	73%	4.48	238
10	Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre Reading · Academy converter	50.4	57%	75%	4.61	248
11	Little Heath School Reading · Voluntary aided school	48.2	47%	72%	4.03	252
12	Denefield School Reading · Academy converter	47.0	50%	70%	4.13	183
13	Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic School Reading · Voluntary aided school	46.0	39%	64%	4.05	186
14	Maiden Erlegh School in Reading Reading · Free schools	45.6	47%	59%	4.26	180
15	The WREN School Reading · Free schools	44.8	41%	60%	3.89	156
16	Maiden Erlegh Chiltern Edge Reading · Academy sponsor led	44.3	45%	63%	4.02	67
17	UTC Reading Reading · University technical college	42.0	38%	57%	3.06	79
18	Theale Green School Reading · Academy sponsor led	38.5	31%	52%	3.27	108
19	King's Academy Prospect Reading · Academy converter	36.8	29%	47%	3.43	205
–	Hartland High School Reading · Academy sponsor led · No published GCSE results	–	–	–	–	–
–	Oakbank School Reading · Free schools · No published GCSE results	–	–	–	–	–
–	River Academy Reading · Free schools · No published GCSE results	–	–	–	–	–

Independent schools in Reading with published 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
Crosfields School Reading · Other independent school	69.9	97%	39
Leighton Park School Reading · Other independent school	15.0	0%	185
Pangbourne College Reading · Other independent school	33.7	0%	80
Queen Anne's School Reading · Other independent school	36.0	0%	73
Red Balloon Learner Centre Reading Reading · Other independent school · 2024 results	7.5	0%	8
The Abbey School Reading Reading · Other independent school	27.6	0%	118

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 46.0.

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, and the same applies to 2026. 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.

See the best secondary schools in Reading on our composite score

Reading GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Reading ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Reading with published GCSE results

More about schools in Reading

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