Which school had the best GCSE results in Tower Hamlets in 2023?

On 2023 Attainment 8, Swanlea School topped the table in Tower Hamlets with 58.7, 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 Tower Hamlets GCSE results?

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

Tower Hamlets GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

16 state secondary schools in Tower Hamlets 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. 2 schools with no published results are listed at the end. 7 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

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

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

Secondary schools in Tower Hamlets ranked on Attainment 8

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

Secondary schools in Tower Hamlets 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 , up 4 places since 2022	Swanlea School London · Community school	58.7	+1.27 (1.07 to 1.46)	74%	85%	5.32	208
2 , up 2 places since 2022	Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School London · Voluntary aided school	57.7	+0.74 (0.54 to 0.94)	70%	80%	5.36	194
3 , down 2 places since 2022	Mulberry School for Girls London · Academy converter	56.5	+0.61 (0.42 to 0.79)	56%	74%	5.17	233
4 , up 2 places since 2022	St Paul's Way Trust School London · Academy converter	55.5	+0.50 (0.32 to 0.68)	65%	79%	4.87	235
5 , down 3 places since 2022	Central Foundation Girls' School London · Voluntary aided school	54.6	+0.67 (0.49 to 0.85)	63%	82%	4.79	239
6 , up 1 place since 2022	Mulberry Stepney Green Mathematics and Computing College London · Academy converter	52.8	+0.23 (0.02 to 0.44)	60%	79%	4.94	187
7 , up 4 places since 2022	Morpeth School London · Community school	50.2	+0.30 (0.11 to 0.48)	48%	71%	3.96	228
8 , down 6 places since 2022	Canary Wharf Secondary London · Free schools	49.6	+0.13 (-0.20 to 0.45)	58%	71%	4.73	79
9	Mulberry Academy Shoreditch London · Academy converter	49.4	+0.47 (0.22 to 0.71)	57%	65%	4.47	142
10 , up 3 places since 2022	Langdon Park Community School London · Community school	49.2	-0.13 (-0.34 to 0.09)	46%	69%	4.40	177
11 , down 3 places since 2022	Oaklands School London · Community school	49.0	+0.20 (-0.05 to 0.45)	55%	70%	4.34	140
12 , down 2 places since 2022	Bow School London · Community school	47.7	-0.12 (-0.32 to 0.09)	50%	68%	4.15	223
13 , down 1 place since 2022	George Green's School London · Voluntary controlled school	45.5	+0.01 (-0.20 to 0.22)	50%	68%	4.19	191
14	Wapping High School London · Free schools	40.9	-0.37 (-0.80 to 0.06)	34%	59%	3.70	68
15	London Enterprise Academy London · Free schools	39.2	-0.65 (-1.02 to -0.27)	35%	52%	3.56	86
16	Mulberry UTC London · University technical college	35.5	-1.39 (-1.96 to -0.83)	36%	52%	2.60	25
–	Bishop Challoner Catholic School London · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Mulberry Academy London Dock London · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–

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 Tower Hamlets 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
Darul Hadis Latifiah London · Other independent school	59.9	79%	14
Jamiatul Ummah School London · Other independent school	58.3	79%	43
London East Academy London · Other independent school	63.4	89%	28
London Islamic School London · Other independent school	48.5	43%	23
Madani Secondary Girls' School London · Other independent school	55.4	63%	46
Mazahirul Uloom London School London · Other independent school	49.4	59%	27
The Complete Works Other independent school	7.7	4%	24

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

See the best secondary schools in Tower Hamlets on our composite score

Tower Hamlets GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Tower Hamlets ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Tower Hamlets with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Tower Hamlets

Tower Hamlets GCSE results: common questions