Which school had the best GCSE results in South Gloucestershire in 2025?

On 2025 Attainment 8, Yate Academy topped the table in South Gloucestershire with 54.8, 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 South Gloucestershire GCSE results?

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

South Gloucestershire GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

16 state secondary schools in South Gloucestershire 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.

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

Local Authority 17 state secondary schools 2024/25 results Archive year

Secondary schools in South Gloucestershire ranked on Attainment 8

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

Secondary schools in South Gloucestershire 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 8 places since 2024	Yate Academy Yate · Academy converter	54.8	60%	74%	5.12	134
2 , up 1 place since 2024	The Castle School Bristol · Academy converter	52.4	58%	75%	4.93	223
3 , down 1 place since 2024	John Cabot Academy Bristol · Academy sponsor led	52.1	60%	80%	4.22	160
4 , up 3 places since 2024	Winterbourne Academy Bristol · Academy sponsor led	52.0	59%	74%	4.46	293
5	Downend School Bristol · Academy converter	51.0	54%	76%	4.61	233
6 , down 5 places since 2024	Bradley Stoke Community School Bristol · Academy converter	50.6	56%	70%	4.24	179
7 , up 3 places since 2024	Abbeywood Community School Bristol · Academy sponsor led	46.0	46%	67%	3.68	189
8 , down 4 places since 2024	Brimsham Green School Bristol · Community school	44.9	43%	67%	3.78	152
9 , down 3 places since 2024	Sir Bernard Lovell Academy Bristol · Academy sponsor led	44.5	43%	66%	3.74	204
10 , up 4 places since 2024	Hanham Woods Academy Bristol · Academy sponsor led	44.1	39%	63%	3.86	148
11 , up 2 places since 2024	Chipping Sodbury School Bristol · Academy converter	43.7	37%	66%	3.88	113
12 , down 4 places since 2024	Marlwood School Bristol · Academy sponsor led	43.2	39%	61%	4.03	109
13 , down 1 place since 2024	King's Oak Academy Bristol · Academy sponsor led	42.0	35%	57%	3.51	108
14 , down 3 places since 2024	Mangotsfield School Bristol · Academy sponsor led	41.3	35%	56%	3.65	207
15 , up 1 place since 2024	Patchway Community School Almondsbury · Academy converter	37.0	27%	45%	3.14	172
16 , down 1 place since 2024	Digitech Studio School Bristol · Studio schools	31.2	18%	46%	2.48	79
–	Lyde Green Community School Bristol · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2025	–	–	–	–	–

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.

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

See the best secondary schools in South Gloucestershire on our composite score

South Gloucestershire GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in South Gloucestershire ranked on Attainment 8

More about schools in South Gloucestershire

South Gloucestershire GCSE results: common questions