Which school had the best GCSE results in Stoke-on-Trent in 2022?

On 2022 Attainment 8, St Joseph's College topped the table in Stoke-on-Trent with 64.8. 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 Stoke-on-Trent GCSE results?

This page is the 2022 archive (the 2021/22 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Stoke-on-Trent are on the main Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent show no 2022 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2022 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.

Stoke-on-Trent GCSE results 2022: secondary school league table

23 state secondary schools in Stoke-on-Trent ranked on their 2022 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2021/22 academic year), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, Progress 8, EBacc average point score and cohort size for each school. 3 schools with no published results are listed at the end. 4 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2022 archive of the table. See the latest Stoke-on-Trent GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Town 26 state secondary schools 2021/22 results Archive year

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

23 of 26 schools have published 2022 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2021/22.

Secondary schools in Stoke-on-Trent ranked on Attainment 8, 2022 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Progress 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
1	St Joseph's College Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	64.8	+0.57 (0.33 to 0.80)	77%	95%	5.81	155
2	Painsley Catholic College Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	57.4	+0.22 (0.03 to 0.41)	62%	83%	5.16	216
3	Alsager School Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	53.6	+0.25 (0.07 to 0.44)	54%	78%	4.60	230
4	Endon High School Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	52.8	+0.04 (-0.20 to 0.28)	61%	81%	4.92	135
5	Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	50.3	+0.04 (-0.15 to 0.24)	57%	79%	4.14	207
6	Trentham Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	50.2	+0.06 (-0.21 to 0.32)	42%	70%	4.31	113
7	The King's CofE Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	47.1	-0.25 (-0.54 to 0.04)	40%	58%	3.84	93
8	St Thomas More Catholic Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	46.6	-0.15 (-0.35 to 0.06)	41%	67%	3.66	198
9	Moorside High School Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	46.5	-0.27 (-0.50 to -0.05)	36%	65%	4.07	153
10	St Margaret Ward Catholic Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	46.4	-0.45 (-0.65 to -0.25)	43%	63%	3.98	193
11	Sir Thomas Boughey Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	45.9	-0.39 (-0.64 to -0.13)	31%	56%	3.74	121
12	Co-op Academy Stoke-On-Trent Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	45.5	+0.14 (-0.09 to 0.37)	43%	68%	3.47	165
13	Biddulph High School Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	45.0	-0.63 (-0.83 to -0.43)	44%	66%	3.63	197
14	The Excel Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	44.3	-0.15 (-0.34 to 0.05)	37%	59%	3.76	203
15	Thistley Hough Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	43.9	-0.16 (-0.38 to 0.05)	33%	59%	3.60	184
16	Ormiston Meridian Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	43.7	-0.25 (-0.47 to -0.02)	47%	67%	3.71	162
17	Ormiston Horizon Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	41.4	-0.67 (-0.86 to -0.47)	34%	53%	3.37	199
18	Discovery Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	41.0	-0.41 (-0.60 to -0.23)	26%	50%	3.23	225
19	St Peter's CofE Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	39.7	-0.37 (-0.60 to -0.14)	25%	49%	3.40	170
20=	Haywood Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	39.1	-0.50 (-0.70 to -0.30)	26%	44%	3.21	203
20=	Kidsgrove Secondary School Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	39.1	-0.53 (-0.96 to -0.10)	29%	50%	3.32	42
22	Birches Head Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	38.5	-0.53 (-0.79 to -0.27)	30%	51%	2.90	126
23	The Cheadle Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	37.8	-0.75 (-1.11 to -0.40)	29%	55%	3.12	62
–	Blythe Bridge High School Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2022	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Co-op Academy Florence MacWilliams Stoke-on-Trent · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2022	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Woodhouse Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2022	–	–	–	–	–	–

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

Independent schools in Stoke-on-Trent with published 2022 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	39.7	0%	6
North Road Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Other independent school	46.1	57%	7
Phoenix Independent School Stoke-on-Trent · Other independent school	3.7	0%	16
Sporting Stars Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Other independent school	6.6	0%	12

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.

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 2022 archive of the table: each school's 2022 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2022 figure is listed unranked even where it has results for a later year. The main Stoke-on-Trent GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

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

Stoke-on-Trent GCSE results 2022: secondary school league table

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

Independent schools in Stoke-on-Trent with published 2022 GCSE results

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