Which school had the best GCSE results in Stoke-on-Trent in 2023?

On 2023 Attainment 8, St Joseph's College topped the table in Stoke-on-Trent with 64.5, 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 Stoke-on-Trent GCSE results?

This page is the 2023 archive (the 2022/23 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 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.

Stoke-on-Trent GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

23 state secondary schools in Stoke-on-Trent 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. 5 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2023 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 2022/23 results Archive year

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

23 of 26 schools have published 2023 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2022/23.

Secondary schools in Stoke-on-Trent 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	St Joseph's College Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	64.5	+0.67 (0.44 to 0.90)	79%	95%	6.19	152
2	Painsley Catholic College Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	57.2	+0.72 (0.53 to 0.91)	63%	82%	5.20	215
3	Trentham Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	49.1	+0.02 (-0.21 to 0.26)	43%	62%	4.22	143
4	Alsager School Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	48.8	+0.01 (-0.16 to 0.19)	46%	74%	4.38	248
5	Biddulph High School Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	46.2	-0.25 (-0.44 to -0.05)	45%	71%	3.71	204
6	Endon High School Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	46.1	-0.16 (-0.40 to 0.08)	49%	69%	4.29	136
7	Moorside High School Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	45.2	+0.08 (-0.14 to 0.31)	43%	63%	4.03	154
8	The Cheadle Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	45.0	-0.36 (-0.66 to -0.06)	30%	63%	3.77	86
9	St Margaret Ward Catholic Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	44.8	-0.25 (-0.45 to -0.05)	43%	67%	4.04	204
10	Thistley Hough Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	44.5	+0.19 (-0.03 to 0.41)	35%	58%	3.66	175
11	Co-op Academy Stoke-On-Trent Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	44.2	+0.05 (-0.15 to 0.25)	36%	55%	3.42	205
12	St Thomas More Catholic Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	42.3	-0.11 (-0.31 to 0.09)	31%	56%	3.38	199
13	The Excel Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	42.2	-0.40 (-0.59 to -0.20)	37%	64%	3.46	203
14	Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	41.3	-0.29 (-0.48 to -0.10)	37%	59%	3.39	208
15	Ormiston Meridian Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	40.6	-0.27 (-0.48 to -0.07)	34%	57%	3.29	190
16	Sir Thomas Boughey Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	40.3	-0.21 (-0.53 to 0.10)	33%	58%	3.32	81
17	The King's CofE Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	39.5	-0.62 (-0.85 to -0.39)	27%	46%	3.05	146
18	Discovery Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	38.5	-0.37 (-0.55 to -0.19)	28%	49%	3.09	233
19	Ormiston Horizon Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	36.6	-0.99 (-1.19 to -0.79)	26%	52%	3.09	201
20	St Peter's CofE Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy sponsor led	36.3	-0.56 (-0.76 to -0.36)	26%	38%	2.95	226
21	Haywood Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	35.0	-0.74 (-0.94 to -0.54)	24%	46%	2.83	203
22	Kidsgrove Secondary School Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	34.5	-1.21 (-1.56 to -0.85)	19%	40%	3.04	62
23	Birches Head Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter	30.8	-0.87 (-1.09 to -0.65)	15%	35%	2.39	179
–	Blythe Bridge High School Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Co-op Academy Florence MacWilliams Stoke-on-Trent · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Woodhouse Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–

Independent schools in Stoke-on-Trent 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
Excellence Girls Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Other independent school	46.3	17%	6
Kinetic Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Other independent school	3.6	0%	14
North Road Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Other independent school	20.2	0%	10
Phoenix Independent School Stoke-on-Trent · Other independent school	12.4	0%	10
Sporting Stars Academy Stoke-on-Trent · Other independent school	10.8	5%	20

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 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 2023: secondary school league table

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

Independent schools in Stoke-on-Trent with published 2023 GCSE results

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