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

On 2025 Attainment 8, Newport Girls' High School Academy topped the table in Shropshire with 75.3, 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 Shropshire GCSE results?

This page is the 2025 archive (the 2024/25 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. No Progress 8 exists for 2025 because these pupils sat no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020.

Why does a school in Shropshire 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.

Shropshire GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

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

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

County 31 state secondary schools 2024/25 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Shropshire ranked on Attainment 8

31 of 31 schools have published 2025 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/25.

Secondary schools in Shropshire 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	Newport Girls' High School Academy Newport · Academy converter	75.3	97%	99%	7.36	87
2	Haberdashers' Adams Newport · Academy converter	71.8	95%	99%	6.70	149
3	The Priory School Shrewsbury · Academy converter	52.7	56%	78%	4.72	167
4= , up 4 places since 2024	Madeley Academy Telford · Academy sponsor led	47.2	37%	64%	4.16	185
4= , up 1 place since 2024	The Corbet School Shrewsbury · Academy converter	47.2	45%	63%	4.18	150
6 , up 1 place since 2024	Sir John Talbot's School Whitchurch · Academy sponsor led	46.8	48%	70%	4.05	159
7 , down 3 places since 2024	Church Stretton School Church Stretton · Academy converter	46.0	45%	67%	3.82	96
8 , up 2 places since 2024	Holy Trinity Academy Telford · Voluntary aided school	45.9	48%	63%	4.27	148
9 , up 4 places since 2024	The Lacon Childe School Kidderminster · Academy converter	45.8	40%	64%	3.99	91
10 , up 5 places since 2024	Oldbury Wells School Bridgnorth · Academy converter	44.9	44%	66%	3.89	125
11 , down 2 places since 2024	Meole Brace School Shrewsbury · Academy converter	44.6	38%	62%	3.92	256
12= , down 1 place since 2024	Bridgnorth Endowed School Bridgnorth · Academy converter	44.4	39%	66%	3.94	120
12= , up 4 places since 2024	Hadley Learning Community - Secondary Phase Telford · Academy converter	44.4	28%	58%	3.78	239
14 , down 8 places since 2024	Mary Webb School and Science College Shrewsbury · Academy converter	43.5	38%	60%	3.84	129
15= , down 2 places since 2024	The Community College, Bishop's Castle Bishops Castle · Foundation school	43.4	35%	55%	3.81	102
15= , up 2 places since 2024	The Thomas Adams School Shrewsbury · Academy converter	43.4	36%	62%	3.74	209
17= , up 8 places since 2024	Lakelands Academy Ellesmere · Academy converter	43.1	34%	61%	3.93	106
17= , down 5 places since 2024	The Marches School Oswestry · Academy converter	43.1	39%	62%	3.87	257
19 , up 2 places since 2024	Ercall Wood Academy Telford · Academy converter	42.5	35%	58%	3.69	192
20 , down 2 places since 2024	Ludlow Church of England School Ludlow · Academy converter	41.9	30%	56%	3.52	110
21 , up 2 places since 2024	William Brookes School Much Wenlock · Academy converter	41.4	38%	54%	3.57	168
22 , down 2 places since 2024	Idsall School Shifnal · Academy converter	41.0	32%	56%	3.35	217
23 , down 5 places since 2024	Belvidere School Shrewsbury · Academy converter	39.8	34%	52%	3.57	169
24	The Burton Borough School Newport · Academy sponsor led	39.7	30%	54%	3.39	214
25 , up 1 place since 2024	The Grove School Market Drayton · Academy converter	39.5	28%	55%	3.41	142
26	New Road Academy Telford · Academy sponsor led	38.6	24%	37%	3.12	227
27 , down 5 places since 2024	Haberdashers' Abraham Darby Telford · Academy sponsor led	37.7	32%	52%	3.19	180
28 , down 4 places since 2024	St Martins School (3-16 Learning Community) Oswestry · Academy sponsor led	36.4	26%	47%	3.39	86
29 , down 1 place since 2024	The Telford Langley School Telford · Academy sponsor led	35.0	22%	44%	2.96	202
30 , down 3 places since 2024	Shrewsbury Academy Shrewsbury · Academy converter	33.2	20%	38%	2.78	118
31	The Telford Park School Telford · Academy sponsor led	28.4	16%	30%	2.48	125

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 Shropshire 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
Adcote School for Girls Shrewsbury · Other independent school	51.7	38%	21
Concord College Shrewsbury · Other independent school	24.5	0%	103
Ellesmere College Ellesmere · Other independent school	31.6	0%	76
Moreton Hall School Oswestry · Other independent school	50.4	54%	43
Oswestry School Oswestry · Other independent school	48.6	49%	67
Shrewsbury High School Other independent school	65.6	74%	42
Shrewsbury School Shrewsbury · Other independent school	23.6	0%	168
Thomas Telford School Telford · City technology college	59.1	71%	201
Wrekin College Telford · Other independent school	15.6	0%	177

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 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 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Shropshire ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Shropshire with published 2025 GCSE results

More about schools in Shropshire

Shropshire GCSE results: common questions