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

On 2023 Attainment 8, Saint George Catholic Voluntary Aided College Southampton topped the table in Southampton with 59.2, 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 Southampton GCSE results?

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

Southampton GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

20 state secondary schools in Southampton 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. 2 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

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

Town 23 state secondary schools 2022/23 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Southampton ranked on Attainment 8

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

Secondary schools in Southampton 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	Saint George Catholic Voluntary Aided College Southampton Southampton · Voluntary aided school	59.2	+0.86 (0.67 to 1.06)	66%	88%	5.25	208
2	St Anne's Catholic School Southampton · Academy converter	55.8	+0.62 (0.42 to 0.81)	66%	82%	4.76	206
3	Swanmore College Southampton · Community school	51.2	+0.14 (-0.03 to 0.30)	55%	74%	4.48	281
4	Brookfield Community School Southampton · Community school	50.5	+0.20 (0.05 to 0.35)	58%	76%	4.35	350
5	Hounsdown School Southampton · Academy converter	49.6	-0.16 (-0.34 to 0.01)	47%	73%	4.52	259
6	Wildern School Southampton · Academy converter	48.1	+0.00 (-0.14 to 0.14)	46%	70%	4.29	391
7	The Hamble School Southampton · Community school	47.1	-0.12 (-0.29 to 0.06)	50%	68%	4.13	257
8	Upper Shirley High School Southampton · Academy converter	46.8	-0.11 (-0.32 to 0.10)	51%	69%	4.21	180
9	Cantell School Southampton · Foundation school	45.1	+0.09 (-0.11 to 0.28)	41%	64%	3.79	229
10	Noadswood School Southampton · Academy converter	44.6	-0.42 (-0.62 to -0.23)	45%	66%	3.96	205
11	Bitterne Park School Southampton · Foundation school	43.3	-0.48 (-0.63 to -0.33)	33%	57%	3.58	360
12	Testwood School Southampton · Academy converter	42.4	-0.39 (-0.63 to -0.16)	36%	59%	3.59	137
13	Applemore College Southampton · Foundation school	41.5	-0.64 (-0.89 to -0.40)	35%	53%	3.55	129
14	Oasis Academy Sholing Southampton · Academy sponsor led	40.9	-0.52 (-0.72 to -0.31)	33%	52%	3.64	208
15	Oasis Academy Lord's Hill Southampton · Academy sponsor led	39.5	-1.00 (-1.26 to -0.74)	24%	51%	3.44	127
16	Redbridge Community School Southampton · Foundation school	37.9	-1.00 (-1.19 to -0.80)	27%	47%	3.22	209
17	Oasis Academy Mayfield Southampton · Academy sponsor led	36.9	-0.38 (-0.60 to -0.16)	34%	47%	3.11	163
18	Lift New Forest Southampton · Academy sponsor led	36.3	-0.67 (-0.95 to -0.39)	20%	53%	2.92	103
19	Weston Secondary School Southampton · Academy sponsor led	34.6	-0.51 (-0.90 to -0.13)	22%	46%	2.81	59
20	Woodlands Community College Southampton · Foundation school	31.4	-1.01 (-1.27 to -0.75)	19%	34%	2.71	127
–	Deer Park School Southampton · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Regents Park Community College Southampton · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	St Mark's Church of England School Southampton · Voluntary controlled school · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–

Independent schools in Southampton 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
King Edward VI School Southampton · Other independent school	14.8	0%	168
The Gregg School Southampton · Other independent school	37.9	0%	69

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

See the best secondary schools in Southampton on our composite score

Southampton GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Southampton ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Southampton with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Southampton

Southampton GCSE results: common questions