Which school had the best GCSE results in Southend-on-Sea in 2023?

On 2023 Attainment 8, Westcliff High School for Girls topped the table in Southend-on-Sea with 78.5, 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 Southend-on-Sea GCSE results?

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

Southend-on-Sea GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

12 state secondary schools in Southend-on-Sea 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. 1 independent school with published results is listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2023 archive of the table. See the latest Southend-on-Sea GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Local Authority 12 state secondary schools 2022/23 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Southend-on-Sea ranked on Attainment 8

12 of 12 schools have published 2023 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2022/23.

Secondary schools in Southend-on-Sea 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	Westcliff High School for Girls Westcliff-on-Sea · Academy converter	78.5	+0.89 (0.68 to 1.11)	99%	100%	7.61	184
2	Westcliff High School for Boys Academy Westcliff-on-Sea · Academy converter	78.2	+0.90 (0.69 to 1.12)	99%	100%	7.65	180
3	Southend High School for Boys Southend-on-Sea · Academy converter	75.3	+0.67 (0.46 to 0.89)	99%	100%	6.82	178
4	Southend High School for Girls Southend-on-Sea · Academy converter	73.4	+0.49 (0.28 to 0.71)	97%	99%	6.89	178
5	St Bernard's High School Westcliff-on-Sea · Academy converter	58.5	+0.77 (0.53 to 1.01)	68%	86%	5.24	143
6	St Thomas More High School Westcliff-on-Sea · Academy converter	54.4	+0.35 (0.14 to 0.56)	65%	84%	4.40	176
7	The Eastwood Academy Leigh-on-Sea · Academy converter	50.7	+0.48 (0.29 to 0.68)	56%	79%	4.68	205
8	Belfairs Academy Leigh-on-Sea · Academy converter	43.2	-0.39 (-0.56 to -0.22)	37%	66%	3.84	277
9	Shoeburyness High School Southend-on-Sea · Academy converter	42.0	-0.50 (-0.66 to -0.34)	34%	54%	3.35	309
10	Southchurch High School Southend-on-Sea · Academy sponsor led	37.5	-0.81 (-1.04 to -0.58)	23%	45%	3.23	152
11	Cecil Jones Academy Southend-on-Sea · Academy sponsor led	36.5	-0.61 (-0.89 to -0.32)	25%	39%	3.13	102
12	Chase High School Westcliff-on-Sea · Academy sponsor led	35.1	-0.64 (-0.87 to -0.42)	23%	48%	3.10	166

Independent schools in Southend-on-Sea 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
Thorpe Hall School Other independent school	53.0	58%	45

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 Southend-on-Sea GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in Southend-on-Sea on our composite score

Southend-on-Sea GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Southend-on-Sea ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Southend-on-Sea with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Southend-on-Sea

Southend-on-Sea GCSE results: common questions