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

On 2023 Attainment 8, Ark The King's School topped the table in Wakefield with 51.4, 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 Wakefield GCSE results?

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

Wakefield GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

18 state secondary schools in Wakefield 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. 3 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

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

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

Secondary schools in Wakefield ranked on Attainment 8

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

Secondary schools in Wakefield 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 1 place since 2022	Ark The King's School Pontefract · Academy converter	51.4	+0.54 (0.35 to 0.74)	60%	75%	4.69	206
2 , up 9 places since 2022	Trinity Academy Cathedral Wakefield · Academy converter	50.4	+0.74 (0.53 to 0.94)	46%	69%	4.24	190
3 , up 10 places since 2022	Ossett Academy and Sixth Form College Ossett · Academy converter	50.1	+0.08 (-0.08 to 0.25)	56%	74%	4.21	298
4 , down 1 place since 2022	Kettlethorpe High School Wakefield · Community school	50.0	+0.21 (0.06 to 0.37)	57%	74%	4.79	320
5 , down 1 place since 2022	Horbury Academy Wakefield · Academy converter	49.8	+0.29 (0.09 to 0.49)	54%	73%	4.13	198
6 , down 1 place since 2022	Outwood Grange Academy Wakefield · Academy sponsor led	49.4	+0.06 (-0.09 to 0.21)	56%	76%	4.34	359
7 , down 6 places since 2022	Castleford Academy Castleford · Academy converter	49.3	+0.53 (0.37 to 0.70)	48%	71%	4.10	277
8 , down 3 places since 2022	Ark Carleton High School Pontefract · Academy converter	47.3	+0.61 (0.41 to 0.81)	46%	65%	4.18	202
9 , down 1 place since 2022	St Wilfrid's Catholic High School & Sixth Form College Pontefract · Academy converter	47.0	+0.04 (-0.13 to 0.21)	44%	67%	4.19	271
10 , down 1 place since 2022	Crofton Academy Wakefield · Academy converter	46.0	-0.09 (-0.29 to 0.11)	45%	68%	3.93	199
11= , down 1 place since 2022	De Lacy Academy Knottingley · Academy converter	44.1	-0.09 (-0.33 to 0.15)	32%	63%	3.66	139
11= , up 1 place since 2022	St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School Wakefield · Academy converter	44.1	+0.26 (0.02 to 0.49)	40%	62%	3.81	149
13 , up 4 places since 2022	The Featherstone Academy Pontefract · Academy sponsor led	44.0	-0.12 (-0.42 to 0.17)	43%	58%	4.15	88
14 , up 1 place since 2022	Minsthorpe Community College Pontefract · Academy converter	43.4	+0.11 (-0.07 to 0.28)	34%	58%	3.31	250
15 , down 1 place since 2022	Outwood Academy City Fields Wakefield · Academy converter	42.8	+0.20 (-0.05 to 0.44)	39%	57%	4.05	141
16= , down 9 places since 2022	Outwood Academy Freeston Normanton · Academy converter	39.7	-0.11 (-0.35 to 0.14)	40%	55%	3.60	131
16= , up 2 places since 2022	Outwood Academy Hemsworth Pontefract · Academy sponsor led	39.7	-0.24 (-0.45 to -0.03)	34%	58%	3.44	179
18 , down 2 places since 2022	Airedale Academy Castleford · Academy converter	33.2	-0.68 (-0.89 to -0.47)	23%	42%	2.79	178

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 Wakefield 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
Ackworth School West Yorkshire · Other independent school	39.1	0%	55
Queen Elizabeths School Wakefield Wakefield · Other independent school	47.5	0%	120
Silcoates School West Yorkshire · Other independent school	35.9	0%	48

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

See the best secondary schools in Wakefield on our composite score

Wakefield GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Wakefield ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Wakefield with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Wakefield

Wakefield GCSE results: common questions