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

On 2025 Attainment 8, The Ridgeway School & Sixth Form College topped the table in Swindon with 53.5, 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 Swindon GCSE results?

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

Swindon GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

16 state secondary schools in Swindon 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.

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

Town 16 state secondary schools 2024/25 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Swindon ranked on Attainment 8

16 of 16 schools have published 2025 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/25.

Secondary schools in Swindon 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	The Ridgeway School & Sixth Form College Swindon · Academy converter	53.5	62%	78%	5.08	270
2 , up 4 places since 2024	Royal Wootton Bassett Academy Swindon · Academy converter	51.0	56%	75%	4.47	278
3	Swindon Academy Swindon · Academy sponsor led	50.2	57%	76%	4.59	169
4 , up 4 places since 2024	Nova Hreod Academy Swindon · Academy converter	49.1	53%	66%	4.67	179
5 , up 3 places since 2024	Bradon Forest School Swindon · Academy converter	48.1	45%	69%	4.39	134
6 , up 1 place since 2024	Lydiard Park Academy Swindon · Academy converter	47.0	43%	66%	4.09	214
7	The Deanery CofE Academy Swindon · Free schools	46.6	50%	71%	4.14	161
8 , up 2 places since 2024	The Commonweal School Swindon · Academy converter	46.3	38%	64%	4.12	214
9 , up 2 places since 2024	Abbey Park School Swindon · Academy sponsor led	46.2	51%	70%	4.18	231
10 , down 6 places since 2024	Highworth Warneford School Swindon · Academy converter	46.0	50%	73%	3.83	138
11 , down 7 places since 2024	Great Western Academy Swindon · Free schools	45.5	41%	70%	4.09	155
12 , up 2 places since 2024	The Dorcan Academy Swindon · Academy converter	44.3	45%	63%	3.79	163
13 , down 1 place since 2024	Kingsdown School Swindon · Academy converter	41.4	37%	58%	3.55	154
14 , down 12 places since 2024	St Joseph's Catholic College Swindon · Academy converter	38.0	28%	49%	3.22	278
15 , down 2 places since 2024	Lawn Manor Academy Swindon · Academy converter	37.5	30%	46%	3.18	147
16 , down 1 place since 2024	UTC Swindon Swindon · University technical college	32.4	25%	45%	2.46	67

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.

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

See the best secondary schools in Swindon on our composite score

Swindon GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Swindon ranked on Attainment 8

More about schools in Swindon

Swindon GCSE results: common questions