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

On 2023 Attainment 8, Queen Mary's Grammar School topped the table in Walsall with 74.3, 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 Walsall GCSE results?

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

Walsall GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

19 state secondary schools in Walsall 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 Walsall GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Local Authority 19 state secondary schools 2022/23 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Walsall ranked on Attainment 8

19 of 19 schools have published 2023 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2022/23.

Secondary schools in Walsall 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	Queen Mary's Grammar School Walsall · Academy converter	74.3	+0.52 (0.29 to 0.75)	98%	99%	7.04	148
2	Queen Mary's High School Walsall · Academy converter	74.2	+0.74 (0.48 to 1.00)	99%	99%	7.09	120
3 , up 1 place since 2022	Barr Beacon School Walsall · Academy converter	52.4	+0.35 (0.19 to 0.52)	60%	82%	4.89	289
4 , down 1 place since 2022	St Francis of Assisi Catholic College Walsall · Voluntary aided school	49.7	-0.08 (-0.30 to 0.13)	52%	74%	3.83	167
5 , up 4 places since 2022	Grace Academy Darlaston Wednesbury · Academy sponsor led	46.3	+0.07 (-0.15 to 0.29)	36%	62%	3.76	175
6	The Streetly Academy Sutton Coldfield · Academy converter	45.9	-0.15 (-0.32 to 0.02)	42%	69%	4.03	256
7 , down 2 places since 2022	Aldridge School Walsall · Academy converter	45.6	-0.11 (-0.29 to 0.06)	42%	70%	4.23	257
8 , down 1 place since 2022	Joseph Leckie Academy Walsall · Academy converter	42.3	+0.08 (-0.12 to 0.28)	32%	51%	3.54	234
9 , up 2 places since 2022	Bloxwich Academy Walsall · Academy sponsor led	42.2	+0.35 (0.11 to 0.59)	28%	54%	3.57	135
10 , up 5 places since 2022	West Walsall E-ACT Academy Walsall · Academy sponsor led	41.6	-0.06 (-0.27 to 0.15)	37%	56%	3.63	200
11 , down 3 places since 2022	Walsall Academy Walsall · Academy sponsor led	40.4	-0.43 (-0.62 to -0.23)	27%	51%	3.52	212
12 , up 2 places since 2022	Pool Hayes Academy Willenhall · Academy converter	40.2	-0.38 (-0.58 to -0.17)	31%	48%	3.43	180
13 , down 3 places since 2022	St Thomas More Catholic School, Willenhall Willenhall · Voluntary aided school	40.1	-0.57 (-0.75 to -0.38)	29%	46%	3.41	236
14 , up 3 places since 2022	Blue Coat Church of England Academy Walsall · Academy sponsor led	39.9	-0.13 (-0.37 to 0.12)	28%	49%	3.22	145
15 , down 2 places since 2022	Ormiston Shelfield Community Academy Walsall · Academy sponsor led	38.8	-0.46 (-0.65 to -0.28)	22%	44%	3.20	231
16 , down 5 places since 2022	Shire Oak Academy Walsall · Academy converter	38.7	-0.81 (-0.99 to -0.63)	35%	51%	3.12	241
17 , up 2 places since 2022	Brownhills Ormiston Academy Walsall · Academy converter	38.3	-0.38 (-0.63 to -0.14)	22%	39%	2.99	129
18 , down 2 places since 2022	Walsall Studio School Walsall · Studio schools	35.5	-1.21 (-1.61 to -0.81)	17%	50%	2.34	52
19 , down 1 place since 2022	Willenhall E-ACT Academy Willenhall · Academy sponsor led	32.7	-0.82 (-1.06 to -0.58)	17%	38%	2.54	138

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 Walsall 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
Abu Bakr Al-Ihsaan Academy Walsall · Other independent school	52.5	56%	55
Abu Bakr Boys School Walsall · Other independent school	36.6	28%	25
Hydesville Tower School Other independent school	65.6	90%	30

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

See the best secondary schools in Walsall on our composite score

Walsall GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Walsall ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Walsall with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Walsall

Walsall GCSE results: common questions