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

On 2025 Attainment 8, St Patrick's RC High School topped the table in Salford with 53.8, 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 Salford GCSE results?

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

Salford GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

15 state secondary schools in Salford 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. 11 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

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

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

Secondary schools in Salford ranked on Attainment 8

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

Secondary schools in Salford 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 2 places since 2024	St Patrick's RC High School Manchester · Voluntary aided school	53.8	56%	79%	5.18	183
2=	All Hallows RC High School Salford · Voluntary aided school	49.3	55%	71%	4.42	127
2= , down 1 place since 2024	Beis Yaakov High School Salford · Academy converter	49.3	46%	79%	4.43	63
4 , up 7 places since 2024	The Albion Academy Salford · Academy converter	47.4	49%	64%	4.32	170
5	Salford City Academy Manchester · Academy sponsor led	46.1	42%	67%	4.08	175
6 , up 2 places since 2024	Ellesmere Park High School Manchester · Academy converter	45.8	43%	69%	3.73	147
7 , up 3 places since 2024	The Lowry Academy Manchester · Academy sponsor led	44.7	44%	62%	4.03	172
8 , up 1 place since 2024	Co-op Academy Swinton Manchester · Academy converter	44.6	31%	61%	3.85	200
9 , down 5 places since 2024	St Ambrose Barlow Roman Catholic High School Manchester · Voluntary aided school	44.2	38%	67%	3.85	205
10= , down 4 places since 2024	Co-op Academy Walkden Manchester · Academy converter	43.6	41%	61%	3.78	297
10= , up 2 places since 2024	Irlam and Cadishead Academy Manchester · Academy sponsor led	43.6	47%	63%	3.90	107
12	Buile Hill Academy Salford · Academy converter	42.9	51%	67%	3.84	170
13 , down 6 places since 2024	Moorside High School Manchester · Academy converter	41.8	46%	64%	3.49	198
14 , down 1 place since 2024	Oasis Academy MediaCityUK Manchester · Academy sponsor led	38.7	27%	49%	3.40	206
15 , down 1 place since 2024	AldridgeUTC@MediaCityUK Salford · University technical college	35.6	17%	42%	2.55	90
–	Star Salford Academy Worsley · 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 Salford 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
Beis Hatalmud School Salford · Other independent school	14.3	0%	24
Beis Malka Girls school Salford · Other independent school	18.0	0%	20
Beis Ruchel Girls School Other independent school	4.5	0%	43
Bnos Yisroel School Manchester Salford · Other independent school	33.8	0%	48
Bridgewater School Manchester · Other independent school	38.0	0%	60
Edstart Other independent school	8.0	0%	52
Etz Chaim Boys School Other independent school	27.0	24%	50
Manchester Senior Girls School Salford · Other independent school	31.1	56%	32
Oholei Yosef Yitzchok Lubavitch Schools Salford · Other independent school	23.4	0%	11
OYY Lubavitch Boys School Salford · Other independent school	27.5	24%	33
Tiferes Salford · Other independent school	43.8	39%	28

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

See the best secondary schools in Salford on our composite score

Salford GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Salford ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Salford with published 2025 GCSE results

More about schools in Salford

Salford GCSE results: common questions