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

On 2025 Attainment 8, Wickersley School and Sports College topped the table in Rotherham with 49.0, 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 Rotherham GCSE results?

This page is the 2025 archive (the 2024/25 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Rotherham are on the main Rotherham 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 Rotherham 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.

Rotherham GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

15 state secondary schools in Rotherham 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.

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

Local Authority 16 state secondary schools 2024/25 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Rotherham ranked on Attainment 8

15 of 16 schools have published 2025 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/25.

Secondary schools in Rotherham 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 1 place since 2024	Wickersley School and Sports College Rotherham · Academy converter	49.0	56%	72%	4.41	327
2 , up 1 place since 2024	St Bernard's Catholic High School Rotherham · Academy converter	48.9	43%	66%	4.08	163
3 , down 2 places since 2024	Wath Academy Rotherham · Academy sponsor led	47.8	45%	65%	4.01	286
4 , up 1 place since 2024	Oakwood High School Rotherham · Academy converter	47.5	38%	66%	3.89	207
5 , down 1 place since 2024	Wingfield Academy Rotherham · Academy converter	47.0	50%	65%	3.79	204
6 , down 1 place since 2024	Wales High School Sheffield · Academy converter	45.3	41%	66%	4.09	315
7 , up 2 places since 2024	Brinsworth Academy Rotherham · Academy converter	44.5	39%	61%	3.65	236
8 , down 1 place since 2024	Aston Academy Sheffield · Academy converter	44.2	45%	63%	3.92	276
9	Dinnington High School Sheffield · Academy converter	42.3	39%	58%	3.41	192
10 , down 2 places since 2024	Maltby Academy Rotherham · Academy sponsor led	42.0	34%	52%	3.57	189
11	Swinton Academy Mexborough · Academy sponsor led	41.1	42%	61%	3.57	163
12 , down 2 places since 2024	Winterhill School Rotherham · Academy converter	39.3	37%	58%	3.15	155
13 , down 1 place since 2024	Rawmarsh Community School Rotherham · Academy sponsor led	38.8	36%	52%	3.18	207
14 , down 1 place since 2024	Clifton Community School Rotherham · Academy sponsor led	29.4	18%	38%	2.56	188
15 , down 1 place since 2024	Thrybergh Academy Rotherham · Academy converter	28.8	13%	30%	2.41	100
–	Saint Pius X Catholic High School A Specialist School in Humanities Rotherham · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2025	–	–	–	–	–

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.

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

See the best secondary schools in Rotherham on our composite score

Rotherham GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Rotherham ranked on Attainment 8

More about schools in Rotherham

Rotherham GCSE results: common questions