When are the 2026 GCSE results for Sefton 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 Sefton 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.

Sefton GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

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

On 2025 Attainment 8, Formby High School tops the table in Sefton with 54.3, 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.

17 state secondary schools in Sefton 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. 1 school with no published results is listed at the end. 2 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

Local Authority 18 state secondary schools 2024/25 results

Secondary schools in Sefton ranked on Attainment 8

17 of 18 schools have published 2025 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/25.

Secondary schools in Sefton 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	Formby High School Liverpool · Academy converter	54.3	66%	79%	4.53	187
2	Birkdale High School Southport · Academy converter	51.9	57%	74%	4.90	176
3	Greenbank High School Southport · Academy converter	50.6	51%	70%	4.69	208
4	Chesterfield High School Liverpool · Academy converter	48.4	53%	75%	4.27	257
5	Holy Family Catholic High School Liverpool · Voluntary aided school	44.8	44%	63%	3.70	172
6	Meols Cop High School Southport · Academy converter	44.7	36%	60%	3.82	173
7	Maricourt Catholic High School Liverpool · Voluntary aided school	44.5	44%	65%	3.57	199
8	Range High School Liverpool · Academy converter	44.2	39%	64%	3.84	174
9	Deyes High School Liverpool · Academy converter	42.8	36%	60%	3.66	217
10	Sacred Heart Catholic Academy Liverpool · Academy sponsor led	42.4	38%	58%	3.53	170
11	Christ The King Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre Southport · Voluntary aided school	41.8	37%	58%	3.51	113
12	Litherland High School Liverpool · Academy sponsor led	41.7	37%	60%	3.34	134
13	Stanley High School Southport · Academy sponsor led	40.6	31%	53%	3.66	176
14	Hillside High School Bootle · Academy sponsor led	39.8	35%	52%	3.62	130
15	Maghull High School Liverpool · Academy converter	39.6	30%	57%	3.39	203
16=	King's Leadership Academy Hawthornes Bootle · Free schools	32.2	17%	35%	2.94	106
16=	The Salesian Academy of St John Bosco Bootle · Academy sponsor led	32.2	19%	33%	2.55	75
–	St Michaels Church of England Academy Crosby · Academy sponsor led · No published GCSE results	–	–	–	–	–

Schools with the same Attainment 8 score share a rank (shown as "=").

Independent schools in Sefton 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
Merchant Taylors' Schools Liverpool · Other independent school	21.4	0%	125
St. Mary's College Liverpool · Other independent school	63.3	77%	86

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 Sefton on our composite score

Sefton GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Sefton ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Sefton with published GCSE results

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