Which school had the best GCSE results in Sunderland in 2023?

On 2023 Attainment 8, St Aidan's Catholic Academy topped the table in Sunderland with 53.1, 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 Sunderland GCSE results?

This page is the 2023 archive (the 2022/23 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Sunderland are on the main Sunderland 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 Sunderland 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.

Sunderland GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

17 state secondary schools in Sunderland 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. 1 school with no published results is listed at the end. 1 independent school with published results is listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2023 archive of the table. See the latest Sunderland GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Local Authority 18 state secondary schools 2022/23 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Sunderland ranked on Attainment 8

17 of 18 schools have published 2023 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2022/23.

Secondary schools in Sunderland 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 Aidan's Catholic Academy Sunderland · Academy converter	53.1	+0.28 (0.03 to 0.53)	54%	77%	4.87	127
2	St Anthony's Girls' Catholic Academy Sunderland · Academy converter	52.9	+0.02 (-0.16 to 0.21)	54%	79%	4.72	224
3	St Robert of Newminster Catholic School and Sixth Form College, Washington Washington · Academy converter	50.6	+0.04 (-0.14 to 0.23)	55%	75%	4.46	220
4 , up 2 places since 2022	Kepier Houghton le Spring · Academy converter	49.9	-0.16 (-0.36 to 0.03)	50%	69%	4.34	205
5 , up 4 places since 2022	Monkwearmouth Academy Sunderland · Academy converter	46.6	-0.52 (-0.72 to -0.32)	45%	64%	4.07	194
6 , up 5 places since 2022	Oxclose Community Academy Washington · Academy converter	45.9	-0.02 (-0.20 to 0.17)	39%	61%	3.73	228
7 , down 3 places since 2022	Southmoor Academy Sunderland · Academy converter	45.8	-0.56 (-0.74 to -0.37)	40%	57%	3.89	235
8 , down 1 place since 2022	Biddick Academy Washington · Academy converter	42.5	-0.47 (-0.65 to -0.28)	36%	58%	3.57	227
9	Hetton Academy Houghton le Spring · Academy converter	42.1	-0.41 (-0.67 to -0.14)	46%	62%	3.67	111
10 , up 2 places since 2022	Venerable Bede Church of England Academy Sunderland · Academy converter	41.9	-1.00 (-1.21 to -0.79)	35%	59%	3.69	175
11 , down 1 place since 2022	Christ's College Sunderland · Free schools	41.6	-0.56 (-0.95 to -0.17)	38%	55%	3.65	58
12 , down 4 places since 2022	Castle View Enterprise Academy Sunderland · Academy sponsor led	40.4	-0.90 (-1.10 to -0.70)	37%	55%	3.69	192
13	Sandhill View Academy Sunderland · Academy sponsor led	38.5	-0.73 (-0.96 to -0.50)	27%	48%	2.92	149
14 , down 9 places since 2022	Red House Academy Sunderland · Academy sponsor led	38.4	-0.50 (-0.86 to -0.14)	40%	59%	3.40	63
15	Thornhill Academy Sunderland · Academy sponsor led	38.0	-0.67 (-0.95 to -0.40)	32%	46%	3.15	117
16=	Academy 360 Sunderland · Academy sponsor led	33.3	-0.82 (-1.08 to -0.56)	13%	39%	2.59	116
16= , down 2 places since 2022	Washington Academy Washington · Academy converter	33.3	-0.91 (-1.15 to -0.67)	12%	32%	2.65	139
–	Farringdon Community Academy Sunderland · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–

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

Under each rank: the change since the 2022 table, in places gained (+) or lost (−). No figure means the rank is unchanged or the school had no ranked 2022 result.

Independent schools in Sunderland 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
Argyle House School Sunderland · Other independent school	41.5	42%	26

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

See the best secondary schools in Sunderland on our composite score

Sunderland GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Sunderland ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Sunderland with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Sunderland

Sunderland GCSE results: common questions