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

On 2025 Attainment 8, The Charter School North Dulwich topped the table in Southwark with 65.0, 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 Southwark GCSE results?

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

Southwark GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

20 state secondary schools in Southwark 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. 3 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

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

Local Authority 20 state secondary schools 2024/25 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Southwark ranked on Attainment 8

20 of 20 schools have published 2025 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/25.

Secondary schools in Southwark 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 1 place since 2024	The Charter School North Dulwich London · Academy converter	65.0	79%	86%	6.07	187
2 , up 1 place since 2024	The St Thomas the Apostle College London · Voluntary aided school	61.7	72%	86%	5.69	161
3 , down 2 places since 2024	Kingsdale Foundation School London · Academy converter	59.9	67%	86%	5.63	429
4=	Sacred Heart Catholic School London · Academy converter	58.0	70%	88%	5.29	129
4=	St Michael's Catholic College London · Academy converter	58.0	66%	83%	5.49	147
6 , up 3 places since 2024	The Charter School East Dulwich London · Free schools	56.3	63%	78%	5.36	175
7 , down 1 place since 2024	Harris Boys' Academy East Dulwich London · Academy sponsor led	55.5	55%	74%	5.02	156
8 , up 3 places since 2024	Harris Academy Bermondsey London · Academy sponsor led	54.6	57%	72%	5.32	155
9 , down 2 places since 2024	Harris Girls' Academy East Dulwich London · Academy sponsor led	54.3	56%	76%	5.22	152
10 , down 2 places since 2024	City of London Academy (Southwark) London · Academy sponsor led	52.9	58%	78%	4.92	230
11 , down 6 places since 2024	St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England School London · Voluntary aided school	52.7	54%	74%	4.43	126
12 , down 2 places since 2024	Bacon's College London · Academy sponsor led	49.4	51%	66%	4.13	172
13	Ark Globe Academy London · Academy sponsor led	48.4	49%	70%	4.60	155
14 , down 2 places since 2024	Haberdashers' Borough Academy London · Free schools	47.8	43%	67%	4.65	175
15 , up 1 place since 2024	Ark All Saints Academy London · Academy sponsor led	45.2	41%	62%	4.08	114
16 , up 2 places since 2024	Ark Walworth Academy London · Academy sponsor led	43.3	44%	67%	4.02	156
17 , down 3 places since 2024	Notre Dame Catholic Girls' School London · Academy converter	42.8	33%	53%	3.80	116
18 , down 2 places since 2024	South Bank University Academy London · Academy sponsor led	41.5	38%	61%	3.60	112
19 , down 4 places since 2024	The Charter School Bermondsey London · Free schools	40.9	32%	53%	3.80	59
20 , down 2 places since 2024	Harris Academy Peckham London · Academy sponsor led	39.3	35%	54%	3.66	136

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 Southwark 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
Alleyn's School London · Other independent school	48.7	0%	155
Dulwich College London · Other independent school	17.0	0%	241
James Allen's Girls' School London · Other independent school	56.8	0%	108

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

See the best secondary schools in Southwark on our composite score

Southwark GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Southwark ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Southwark with published 2025 GCSE results

More about schools in Southwark

Southwark GCSE results: common questions