Which school had the best GCSE results in Wakefield in 2024?

On 2024 Attainment 8, Ossett Academy and Sixth Form College topped the table in Wakefield with 52.1, against an England average of 45.9. 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 2024 archive (the 2023/24 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 2024 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2024 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 2024: secondary school league table

18 state secondary schools in Wakefield ranked on their 2024 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2023/24 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 2024 archive of the table. See the latest Wakefield GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Local Authority 18 state secondary schools 2023/24 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Wakefield ranked on Attainment 8

18 of 18 schools have published 2024 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2023/24.

Secondary schools in Wakefield ranked on Attainment 8, 2024 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Progress 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	45.9	0.00	46%	65%	4.07	–
1 , up 2 places since 2023	Ossett Academy and Sixth Form College Ossett · Academy converter	52.1	+0.24 (0.07 to 0.40)	58%	80%	4.40	291
2 , up 8 places since 2023	Crofton Academy Wakefield · Academy converter	50.0	+0.26 (0.07 to 0.46)	57%	74%	4.35	206
3 , up 3 places since 2023	Outwood Grange Academy Wakefield · Academy sponsor led	49.4	-0.13 (-0.29 to 0.02)	59%	79%	4.34	348
4 , down 3 places since 2023	Ark The King's School Pontefract · Academy converter	49.0	+0.10 (-0.09 to 0.30)	57%	75%	4.50	207
5	Horbury Academy Wakefield · Academy converter	48.9	+0.32 (0.13 to 0.50)	52%	71%	4.21	228
6 , up 1 place since 2023	Castleford Academy Castleford · Academy converter	48.6	+0.41 (0.25 to 0.58)	51%	67%	4.16	301
7 , up 2 places since 2023	St Wilfrid's Catholic High School & Sixth Form College Pontefract · Academy converter	47.7	-0.01 (-0.18 to 0.15)	49%	71%	4.33	278
8	Ark Carleton High School Pontefract · Academy converter	47.4	+0.12 (-0.08 to 0.32)	50%	70%	4.28	199
9 , down 7 places since 2023	Trinity Academy Cathedral Wakefield · Academy converter	47.0	+0.34 (0.14 to 0.55)	46%	68%	4.20	197
10 , down 6 places since 2023	Kettlethorpe High School Wakefield · Community school	46.6	-0.06 (-0.23 to 0.10)	52%	69%	4.42	315
11	St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School Wakefield · Academy converter	46.5	+0.29 (0.06 to 0.53)	50%	62%	4.08	145
12 , down 1 place since 2023	De Lacy Academy Knottingley · Academy converter	44.5	-0.12 (-0.34 to 0.10)	39%	62%	3.78	170
13 , up 3 places since 2023	Outwood Academy Freeston Normanton · Academy converter	42.9	-0.18 (-0.38 to 0.03)	48%	67%	3.88	190
14	Minsthorpe Community College Pontefract · Academy converter	41.8	+0.21 (0.04 to 0.37)	39%	54%	3.39	286
15 , down 2 places since 2023	The Featherstone Academy Pontefract · Academy sponsor led	40.6	-0.33 (-0.62 to -0.03)	42%	52%	3.78	88
16	Outwood Academy Hemsworth Pontefract · Academy sponsor led	39.7	-0.07 (-0.28 to 0.15)	32%	58%	3.54	173
17 , down 2 places since 2023	Outwood Academy City Fields Wakefield · Academy converter	38.6	+0.08 (-0.16 to 0.32)	32%	51%	3.51	144
18	Airedale Academy Castleford · Academy converter	34.0	-0.72 (-0.95 to -0.50)	24%	40%	2.89	158

Under each rank: the change since the 2023 table, in places gained (+) or lost (−). No figure means the rank is unchanged or the school had no ranked 2023 result.

Independent schools in Wakefield with published 2024 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	41.3	0%	63
Queen Elizabeths School Wakefield Wakefield · Other independent school	46.3	0%	116
Silcoates School West Yorkshire · Other independent school	36.8	0%	50

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 2024 was 45.9.

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 2024 archive of the table: each school's 2024 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2024 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 2024: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Wakefield ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Wakefield with published 2024 GCSE results

More about schools in Wakefield

Wakefield GCSE results: common questions