Which school had the best GCSE results in Tower Hamlets in 2025?

On 2025 Attainment 8, Swanlea School topped the table in Tower Hamlets with 56.9, 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 Tower Hamlets GCSE results?

This page is the 2025 archive (the 2024/25 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. No Progress 8 exists for 2025 because these pupils sat no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020.

Why does a school in Tower Hamlets 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.

Tower Hamlets GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

17 state secondary schools in Tower Hamlets 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. 1 school with no published results is listed at the end. 7 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2025 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 2024/25 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Tower Hamlets ranked on Attainment 8

17 of 18 schools have published 2025 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/25.

Secondary schools in Tower Hamlets 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 , up 1 place since 2024	Swanlea School London · Community school	56.9	64%	81%	5.25	207
2	Mulberry School for Girls London · Academy converter	55.2	51%	70%	5.07	239
3 , up 2 places since 2024	Central Foundation Girls' School London · Voluntary aided school	54.3	54%	75%	4.78	237
4 , down 3 places since 2024	Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School London · Voluntary aided school	53.6	60%	79%	5.01	205
5 , up 2 places since 2024	Canary Wharf Secondary London · Free schools	52.9	57%	71%	4.73	105
6	Oaklands School London · Community school	52.4	54%	77%	4.68	152
7 , down 3 places since 2024	St Paul's Way Trust School London · Academy converter	51.8	56%	77%	4.45	236
8	Morpeth School London · Community school	49.2	43%	70%	4.39	233
9 , up 3 places since 2024	George Green's School London · Voluntary controlled school	49.0	52%	76%	4.53	193
10 , up 3 places since 2024	London Enterprise Academy London · Free schools	48.0	51%	70%	4.46	92
11 , down 2 places since 2024	Mulberry Stepney Green Mathematics and Computing College London · Academy converter	47.5	49%	68%	4.51	184
12 , down 1 place since 2024	Wapping High School London · Free schools	46.9	45%	71%	4.33	65
13 , down 3 places since 2024	Mulberry Academy Shoreditch London · Academy converter	45.0	40%	59%	4.13	167
14	Bishop Challoner Catholic School London · Academy converter	44.6	46%	64%	3.94	208
15 , down 1 place since 2024	Langdon Park Community School London · Community school	43.5	46%	60%	3.92	178
16 , down 1 place since 2024	Bow School London · Community school	43.2	33%	61%	3.79	220
17 , down 1 place since 2024	Mulberry UTC London · University technical college	30.3	18%	35%	2.28	40
–	Mulberry Academy London Dock London · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2025	–	–	–	–	–

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 Tower Hamlets 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
Darul Hadis Latifiah London · Other independent school	52.7	57%	21
Jamiatul Ummah School London · Other independent school	58.1	82%	33
London East Academy London · Other independent school	55.7	66%	29
London Islamic School London · Other independent school	58.7	67%	24
Madani Secondary Girls' School London · Other independent school	56.6	64%	47
Mazahirul Uloom London School London · Other independent school	43.1	33%	42
The Complete Works Other independent school	4.9	0%	60

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 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 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Tower Hamlets ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Tower Hamlets with published 2025 GCSE results

More about schools in Tower Hamlets

Tower Hamlets GCSE results: common questions