Which school has the best GCSE results in Stoke-on-Trent?

On 2025 Attainment 8, St Joseph's College tops the table in Stoke-on-Trent with 62.4, against an England average of 46.0. 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.

When are the 2026 GCSE results for Stoke-on-Trent schools published?

Pupils receive their results in August, but school-by-school figures come from the DfE performance tables, which publish provisional results in the autumn (usually mid-October) and revised figures early in the new year. This table shows 2025 results, the 2024/25 academic year, and updates when the next release is imported.

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 Stoke-on-Trent show no GCSE results?

A school has no published figure when it had no Year 11 cohort in the year (a new school, or one that opened with younger year groups), when it converted to an academy and the DfE published 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.

Stoke-on-Trent GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

24 state secondary schools in Stoke-on-Trent ranked on their 2025 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2024/25 academic year, the latest DfE has published for every school), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc average point score and cohort size for each school against the England average. 2 schools with no published results are listed at the end. 5 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

Town 26 state secondary schools 2024/25 results

Secondary schools in Stoke-on-Trent ranked on Attainment 8

24 of 26 schools have published 2025 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/25.

Secondary schools in Stoke-on-Trent ranked on Attainment 8, 2025 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	46.0	45%	65%	4.09	–
1	St Joseph's College Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	62.4	78%	91%	5.94	152
2	Painsley Catholic College Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	58.8	64%	82%	5.41	221
3	Endon High School Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	54.2	64%	85%	4.93	138
4	Alsager School Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	51.9	52%	75%	4.72	257
5	Thistley Hough Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	47.9	52%	71%	4.02	200
6=	Blythe Bridge High School Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	46.6	41%	64%	4.51	165
6=	Trentham Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	46.6	44%	69%	4.22	147
8	Moorside High School Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	45.4	45%	69%	4.22	144
9	St Thomas More Catholic Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	43.4	36%	64%	3.68	195
10	Biddulph High School Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	43.3	36%	60%	3.60	205
11	St Margaret Ward Catholic Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	43.0	40%	64%	3.94	206
12	Co-op Academy Stoke-On-Trent Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	42.7	38%	48%	3.52	215
13	Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	41.0	35%	57%	3.58	232
14	Ormiston Meridian Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	40.2	34%	57%	3.40	194
15	The King's CofE Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	40.1	27%	49%	3.20	152
16	The Cheadle Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	40.0	31%	48%	3.31	75
17	The Excel Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	37.5	29%	52%	3.06	242
18	Discovery Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	37.4	28%	53%	3.01	289
19	Ormiston Horizon Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	37.3	29%	51%	3.13	198
20	Haywood Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	36.1	17%	44%	2.85	206
21	Kidsgrove Secondary School Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	35.9	15%	42%	3.15	60
22	Sir Thomas Boughey Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	35.1	19%	37%	2.87	108
23	St Peter's CofE Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	34.4	19%	37%	2.81	206
24	Birches Head Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	31.3	17%	39%	2.62	199
–	Co-op Academy Florence MacWilliams Stoke-on-Trent · Free schools · No published GCSE results	–	–	–	–	–
–	Woodhouse Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter · No published GCSE results	–	–	–	–	–

Schools with the same Attainment 8 score share a rank (shown as "=").

Independent schools in Stoke-on-Trent with published 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
Excellence Girls Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Other independent school	46.8	58%	12
Kinetic Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Other independent school · 2023 results	3.6	0%	14
North Road Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Other independent school	29.2	5%	21
Phoenix Independent School Stoke-on-Trent · Other independent school	6.1	0%	19
Sporting Stars Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Other independent school	10.5	0%	24

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 46.0.

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, and the same applies to 2026. 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.

See the best secondary schools in Stoke-on-Trent on our composite score

Stoke-on-Trent GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Stoke-on-Trent ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Stoke-on-Trent with published GCSE results

More about schools in Stoke-on-Trent

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