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

On 2023 Attainment 8, Newport Girls' High School Academy topped the table in Shropshire with 77.5, 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 Shropshire GCSE results?

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

Shropshire GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

28 state secondary schools in Shropshire 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. 9 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

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

County 31 state secondary schools 2022/23 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Shropshire ranked on Attainment 8

28 of 31 schools have published 2023 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2022/23.

Secondary schools in Shropshire 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	Newport Girls' High School Academy Newport · Academy converter	77.5	+0.79 (0.48 to 1.11)	99%	99%	7.57	86
2	Haberdashers' Adams Newport · Academy converter	73.7	+0.40 (0.12 to 0.68)	98%	100%	6.88	121
3	The Priory School Shrewsbury · Academy converter	55.1	+0.37 (0.15 to 0.59)	62%	81%	4.85	167
4 , up 15 places since 2022	Madeley Academy Telford · Academy sponsor led	51.8	+0.17 (-0.02 to 0.36)	54%	74%	4.55	205
5 , up 2 places since 2022	Church Stretton School Church Stretton · Academy converter	48.5	-0.04 (-0.31 to 0.23)	44%	68%	4.17	110
6 , up 7 places since 2022	Mary Webb School and Science College Shrewsbury · Academy converter	48.0	-0.01 (-0.28 to 0.25)	44%	74%	4.03	117
7 , up 2 places since 2022	The Corbet School Shrewsbury · Academy converter	47.8	+0.12 (-0.11 to 0.35)	46%	67%	4.28	148
8 , down 3 places since 2022	The Community College, Bishop's Castle Bishops Castle · Foundation school	47.5	+0.17 (-0.18 to 0.52)	48%	72%	4.27	87
9 , up 3 places since 2022	Oldbury Wells School Bridgnorth · Academy converter	47.2	-0.14 (-0.37 to 0.08)	46%	72%	4.04	156
10 , down 4 places since 2022	Idsall School Shifnal · Academy converter	46.7	-0.34 (-0.53 to -0.15)	41%	68%	3.84	222
11 , up 3 places since 2022	Sir John Talbot's School Whitchurch · Academy sponsor led	46.1	+0.09 (-0.17 to 0.35)	48%	66%	3.97	130
12 , down 8 places since 2022	The Lacon Childe School Kidderminster · Academy converter	45.5	-0.12 (-0.38 to 0.15)	35%	68%	3.80	112
13= , down 3 places since 2022	Belvidere School Shrewsbury · Academy converter	44.5	+0.00 (-0.23 to 0.22)	46%	65%	3.82	161
13= , up 5 places since 2022	Hadley Learning Community - Secondary Phase Telford · Academy converter	44.5	-0.17 (-0.37 to 0.03)	37%	52%	3.79	190
13= , up 4 places since 2022	Meole Brace School Shrewsbury · Academy converter	44.5	-0.51 (-0.70 to -0.33)	31%	63%	3.83	239
16 , up 5 places since 2022	Ercall Wood Academy Telford · Academy converter	43.6	-0.03 (-0.24 to 0.18)	29%	53%	3.64	185
17 , up 8 places since 2022	Bridgnorth Endowed School Bridgnorth · Academy converter	43.4	-0.46 (-0.74 to -0.17)	39%	63%	4.00	96
18 , up 2 places since 2022	The Marches School Oswestry · Academy converter	43.2	-0.34 (-0.52 to -0.15)	38%	61%	3.85	253
19 , down 11 places since 2022	Holy Trinity Academy Telford · Voluntary aided school	43.1	-0.28 (-0.52 to -0.04)	34%	59%	3.56	140
20= , down 4 places since 2022	The Grove School Market Drayton · Academy converter	43.0	-0.42 (-0.65 to -0.19)	37%	62%	3.51	142
20= , down 9 places since 2022	The Thomas Adams School Shrewsbury · Academy converter	43.0	-0.38 (-0.59 to -0.18)	32%	49%	3.63	204
22 , up 1 place since 2022	Ludlow Church of England School Ludlow · Academy converter	42.8	-0.31 (-0.59 to -0.03)	31%	60%	3.53	101
23= , up 1 place since 2022	Lakelands Academy Ellesmere · Academy converter	41.6	-0.36 (-0.66 to -0.06)	29%	58%	3.79	97
23= , down 9 places since 2022	William Brookes School Much Wenlock · Academy converter	41.6	-0.87 (-1.09 to -0.65)	37%	57%	3.67	159
25 , up 3 places since 2022	St Martins School (3-16 Learning Community) Oswestry · Academy sponsor led	35.2	-0.99 (-1.34 to -0.64)	23%	44%	2.64	82
26= , down 4 places since 2022	Haberdashers' Abraham Darby Telford · Academy sponsor led	34.5	-0.89 (-1.09 to -0.68)	24%	42%	2.87	182
26= , up 1 place since 2022	The Telford Langley School Telford · Academy sponsor led	34.5	-0.94 (-1.15 to -0.73)	22%	44%	2.95	174
28 , down 2 places since 2022	Shrewsbury Academy Shrewsbury · Academy converter	32.1	-0.99 (-1.21 to -0.76)	16%	36%	2.90	164
–	New Road Academy Telford · Academy sponsor led · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	The Burton Borough School Newport · Academy sponsor led · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	The Telford Park School Telford · Academy sponsor led · 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 Shropshire 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
Adcote School for Girls Shrewsbury · Other independent school	59.5	69%	29
Concord College Shrewsbury · Other independent school	22.3	0%	106
Ellesmere College Ellesmere · Other independent school	26.4	0%	93
Moreton Hall School Oswestry · Other independent school	31.0	31%	94
Oswestry School Oswestry · Other independent school	20.0	19%	128
Shrewsbury High School Other independent school	60.1	73%	44
Shrewsbury School Shrewsbury · Other independent school	40.7	0%	153
Thomas Telford School Telford · City technology college	60.9	74%	174
Wrekin College Telford · Other independent school	24.7	0%	98

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

See the best secondary schools in Shropshire on our composite score

Shropshire GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Shropshire ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Shropshire with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Shropshire

Shropshire GCSE results: common questions