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

On 2023 Attainment 8, Q3 Academy Langley topped the table in Sandwell with 55.1, 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 Sandwell GCSE results?

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

Sandwell GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

19 state secondary schools in Sandwell 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. 3 schools with no published results are listed at the end. 3 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

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

Local Authority 22 state secondary schools 2022/23 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Sandwell ranked on Attainment 8

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

Secondary schools in Sandwell 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	Q3 Academy Langley Oldbury · Academy sponsor led	55.1	+0.81 (0.63 to 1.00)	60%	76%	5.18	231
2 , up 1 place since 2022	Sandwell Academy West Bromwich · Academy sponsor led	47.9	+0.01 (-0.19 to 0.21)	47%	70%	4.17	196
3= , down 1 place since 2022	St Michael's Church of England High School Rowley Regis · Voluntary aided school	47.1	+0.41 (0.23 to 0.60)	33%	55%	3.78	228
3= , up 5 places since 2022	Wood Green Academy Wednesbury · Academy converter	47.1	-0.10 (-0.28 to 0.08)	46%	71%	3.89	252
5 , up 1 place since 2022	Shireland Collegiate Academy Smethwick · Academy sponsor led	47.0	+0.37 (0.19 to 0.56)	41%	63%	3.90	245
6 , up 5 places since 2022	Q3 Academy Great Barr Birmingham · Academy sponsor led	45.5	-0.15 (-0.34 to 0.05)	48%	67%	4.02	206
7 , down 2 places since 2022	Stuart Bathurst Catholic High School Wednesbury · Academy sponsor led	45.2	-0.13 (-0.37 to 0.10)	46%	66%	3.50	145
8 , down 1 place since 2022	Bristnall Hall Academy Oldbury · Academy converter	44.5	+0.57 (0.36 to 0.78)	33%	54%	4.06	189
9 , up 1 place since 2022	George Salter Academy West Bromwich · Academy sponsor led	44.4	-0.13 (-0.33 to 0.07)	40%	62%	3.78	196
10 , down 6 places since 2022	Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy Oldbury · Academy sponsor led	43.2	-0.18 (-0.37 to 0.02)	39%	56%	3.70	207
11 , up 1 place since 2022	The Phoenix Collegiate West Bromwich · Foundation school	42.2	-0.16 (-0.32 to 0.00)	35%	53%	3.51	333
12 , down 3 places since 2022	Perryfields Academy Oldbury · Academy converter	41.3	-0.36 (-0.56 to -0.16)	34%	56%	3.57	221
13 , up 2 places since 2022	Holly Lodge High School College of Science Smethwick · Foundation school	41.2	+0.19 (0.01 to 0.37)	32%	51%	3.33	275
14 , down 2 places since 2022	Ormiston Forge Academy Cradley Heath · Academy sponsor led	40.7	-0.15 (-0.32 to 0.02)	30%	54%	3.31	285
15 , up 4 places since 2022	Shireland Biomedical Utc West Bromwich · University technical college	40.3	-0.32 (-0.80 to 0.16)	34%	50%	2.84	38
16 , up 1 place since 2022	Wodensborough Ormiston Academy Wednesbury · Academy sponsor led	39.3	-0.21 (-0.41 to -0.02)	28%	45%	3.35	221
17 , down 3 places since 2022	Oldbury Academy Oldbury · Academy converter	39.2	-0.08 (-0.26 to 0.10)	30%	48%	3.30	285
18 , down 2 places since 2022	Gospel Oak School Tipton · Academy sponsor led	35.6	-0.86 (-1.05 to -0.67)	23%	38%	2.78	213
19 , down 1 place since 2022	Q3 Academy Tipton Tipton · Academy sponsor led	32.7	-0.75 (-0.93 to -0.56)	12%	29%	2.51	246
–	Shireland CBSO Academy West Bromwich · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	West Bromwich Collegiate Academy West Bromwich · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Windsor Olympus Academy Birmingham · Free schools · 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 Sandwell 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
Impact Independent School Other independent school	2.8	0%	29
Sandwell Valley School West Bromwich · Other independent school	2.8	0%	75
The British Muslim School West Midlands · Other independent school	33.7	19%	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 Sandwell GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in Sandwell on our composite score

Sandwell GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Sandwell ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Sandwell with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Sandwell

Sandwell GCSE results: common questions