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

On 2025 Attainment 8, Debenham High School topped the table in Suffolk with 55.7, 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 Suffolk GCSE results?

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

Suffolk GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

43 state secondary schools in Suffolk 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. 10 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

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

Local Authority 43 state secondary schools 2024/25 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Suffolk ranked on Attainment 8

43 of 43 schools have published 2025 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/25.

Secondary schools in Suffolk 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	Debenham High School Stowmarket · Academy converter	55.7	68%	85%	4.74	138
2	Hartismere School Eye · Academy converter	53.0	58%	79%	5.04	158
3	Northgate High School Ipswich · Community school	50.6	55%	75%	4.30	250
4= , up 10 places since 2024	Bury St Edmunds County High School Bury St Edmunds · Academy converter	49.8	53%	70%	4.64	168
4=	St Benedict's Catholic School Bury St Edmunds · Academy converter	49.8	50%	72%	4.60	159
6 , down 1 place since 2024	Kesgrave High School Ipswich · Academy converter	49.7	52%	72%	4.09	307
7 , up 3 places since 2024	Sybil Andrews Academy Bury St Edmunds · Academy sponsor led	49.5	56%	78%	4.52	102
8	Thomas Mills High School & Sixth Form Woodbridge · Academy converter	48.4	46%	71%	4.33	173
9 , up 2 places since 2024	East Bergholt High School Colchester · Academy converter	47.8	48%	73%	4.11	183
10= , down 4 places since 2024	Copleston High School Ipswich · Academy converter	46.9	48%	70%	4.15	320
10= , down 3 places since 2024	St Alban's Catholic High School Ipswich · Academy converter	46.9	42%	65%	3.99	173
10= , up 11 places since 2024	Thurston Community College Bury St Edmunds · Community school	46.9	51%	67%	4.11	265
13 , down 4 places since 2024	Thomas Gainsborough School Sudbury · Academy converter	46.1	46%	65%	4.17	254
14 , up 11 places since 2024	Newmarket Academy Newmarket · Academy sponsor led	45.9	46%	73%	3.98	160
15 , up 9 places since 2024	King Edward VI CEVC School Bury St Edmunds · Voluntary controlled school	45.4	38%	63%	3.93	229
16 , up 6 places since 2024	Claydon High School Ipswich · Academy converter	45.0	42%	66%	3.97	154
17 , down 4 places since 2024	Benjamin Britten Academy of Music and Mathematics Lowestoft · Academy sponsor led	44.9	46%	63%	3.85	235
18 , down 3 places since 2024	Sir John Leman High School Beccles · Academy converter	44.8	41%	68%	3.68	244
19 , down 8 places since 2024	Stour Valley Community School Sudbury · Free schools	44.5	43%	60%	3.71	113
20 , down 3 places since 2024	Stradbroke High School Eye · Academy converter	44.3	47%	73%	4.02	55
21 , up 15 places since 2024	Ixworth High School Ixworth · Free schools	44.0	37%	64%	4.00	100
22= , down 4 places since 2024	Farlingaye High School Woodbridge · Academy converter	43.8	40%	62%	3.66	299
22= , up 1 place since 2024	Samuel Ward Academy Haverhill · Academy converter	43.8	42%	61%	3.76	195
24 , down 4 places since 2024	Hadleigh High School Ipswich · Academy converter	43.6	40%	64%	3.79	156
25 , up 8 places since 2024	Ormiston Endeavour Academy Ipswich · Academy sponsor led	42.8	34%	58%	3.61	111
26 , up 9 places since 2024	Breckland School Brandon · Free schools	42.4	33%	60%	3.72	104
27 , down 11 places since 2024	Bungay High School Bungay · Academy converter	41.7	36%	59%	3.67	187
28 , up 6 places since 2024	Holbrook Academy Ipswich · Academy converter	41.2	34%	60%	3.65	117
29	Stowupland High School Stowmarket · Academy converter	41.1	40%	60%	3.52	173
30= , up 8 places since 2024	Ormiston Denes Academy Lowestoft · Academy sponsor led	40.5	30%	53%	3.43	130
30= , down 11 places since 2024	Stowmarket High School Stowmarket · Academy sponsor led	40.5	35%	58%	3.52	178
32 , down 3 places since 2024	Castle Manor Academy Haverhill · Academy converter	40.3	32%	51%	3.04	146
33 , down 7 places since 2024	Westbourne Academy Ipswich · Academy converter	39.7	34%	52%	3.38	200
34 , down 6 places since 2024	Ormiston Sudbury Academy Sudbury · Academy sponsor led	39.6	42%	54%	3.18	101
35 , down 9 places since 2024	East Point Academy Lowestoft · Academy sponsor led	39.5	43%	61%	3.43	150
36 , up 1 place since 2024	Felixstowe School Felixstowe · Academy sponsor led	38.5	27%	49%	3.42	231
37 , down 5 places since 2024	Pakefield High School Lowestoft · Academy converter	38.4	28%	57%	2.98	136
38	Ipswich Academy Ipswich · Academy sponsor led	37.6	30%	48%	3.23	190
39 , down 8 places since 2024	Mildenhall College Academy Mildenhall · Academy converter	37.4	27%	52%	3.34	222
40 , up 1 place since 2024	Stoke High School - Ormiston Academy Ipswich · Academy sponsor led	34.3	22%	38%	2.86	144
41 , down 1 place since 2024	Chantry Academy Ipswich · Academy sponsor led	33.9	26%	45%	2.77	176
42 , down 12 places since 2024	Alde Valley Academy Leiston · Academy sponsor led	33.7	24%	42%	3.01	135
43 , down 1 place since 2024	Beccles High School Beccles · Free schools	27.6	18%	31%	2.35	67

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 Suffolk 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
Culford School Bury St Edmunds · Other independent school	31.3	0%	108
Finborough School Stowmarket · Other independent school	37.5	1%	82
Framlingham College Woodbridge · Other independent school	43.5	0%	71
Ipswich High School Other independent school	48.6	0%	68
Ipswich School Ipswich · Other independent school	68.1	92%	141
OneSchool Global UK Colchester Campus Colchester · Other independent school	58.2	69%	13
Royal Hospital School Ipswich · Other independent school	50.9	1%	92
Saint Felix School Southwold · Other independent school	41.1	34%	47
St Joseph's College Ipswich · Other independent school	54.7	66%	91
Woodbridge School Woodbridge · Other independent school	40.4	0%	72

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

See the best secondary schools in Suffolk on our composite score

Suffolk GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Suffolk ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Suffolk with published 2025 GCSE results

More about schools in Suffolk

Suffolk GCSE results: common questions