Which school had the best GCSE results in West Sussex in 2024?

On 2024 Attainment 8, St Paul's Catholic College topped the table in West Sussex with 56.8, 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 West Sussex GCSE results?

This page is the 2024 archive (the 2023/24 academic year). The latest published results for every school in West Sussex are on the main West Sussex 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 West Sussex 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.

West Sussex GCSE results 2024: secondary school league table

38 state secondary schools in West Sussex 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. 2 schools with no published results are listed at the end. 12 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2024 archive of the table. See the latest West Sussex GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Local Authority 40 state secondary schools 2023/24 results Archive year

Secondary schools in West Sussex ranked on Attainment 8

38 of 40 schools have published 2024 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2023/24.

Secondary schools in West Sussex 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	St Paul's Catholic College Burgess Hill · Academy converter	56.8	+0.53 (0.31 to 0.74)	66%	85%	5.32	178
2	Downlands Community School Hassocks · Community school	54.9	+0.53 (0.35 to 0.72)	58%	77%	5.06	238
3=	St Oscar Romero Catholic School Worthing · Voluntary aided school	54.1	+0.89 (0.68 to 1.09)	58%	83%	4.85	185
3=	Warden Park Secondary Academy Haywards Heath · Academy converter	54.1	+0.28 (0.12 to 0.45)	60%	79%	4.69	297
5	St Philip Howard Catholic School Bognor Regis · Academy converter	53.6	+0.68 (0.47 to 0.89)	53%	79%	4.68	178
6	Tanbridge House School Horsham · Community school	53.1	+0.40 (0.24 to 0.56)	59%	80%	4.62	299
7	Millais School Horsham · Community school	52.9	+0.22 (0.06 to 0.39)	60%	78%	4.97	294
8	Shoreham Academy Shoreham-by-Sea · Academy sponsor led	52.3	+0.56 (0.39 to 0.73)	66%	83%	4.80	287
9	Bishop Luffa School, Chichester Chichester · Academy converter	51.9	+0.21 (0.03 to 0.39)	54%	80%	4.57	239
10	Davison Church of England High School for Girls, Worthing Worthing · Voluntary controlled school	51.3	+0.34 (0.16 to 0.51)	60%	77%	4.24	257
11	Weald School, The Billingshurst · Community school	51.2	+0.44 (0.27 to 0.61)	52%	75%	4.53	293
12	Bohunt Horsham Horsham · Free schools	51.0	+0.08 (-0.18 to 0.34)	60%	76%	4.81	123
13	Oathall Community College Haywards Heath · Community school	50.6	+0.28 (0.09 to 0.47)	50%	73%	4.67	234
14	Hazelwick School Crawley · Academy converter	49.6	+0.30 (0.14 to 0.46)	45%	70%	4.51	296
15	St Wilfrid's Catholic Comprehensive School, Crawley Crawley · Voluntary aided school	49.0	-0.08 (-0.31 to 0.14)	49%	77%	4.05	154
16	Oriel High School Crawley · Community school	48.6	+0.10 (-0.08 to 0.29)	52%	73%	4.16	235
17	Worthing High School Worthing · Academy converter	48.2	+0.11 (-0.08 to 0.31)	49%	71%	4.30	214
18	Durrington High School Worthing · Academy converter	47.6	+0.29 (0.13 to 0.45)	47%	70%	3.98	312
19	Bohunt School Worthing Worthing · Academy sponsor led	46.8	-0.06 (-0.28 to 0.15)	47%	65%	4.19	178
20	St Andrew's CofE High School Worthing · Voluntary aided school	46.3	+0.18 (-0.08 to 0.43)	46%	66%	3.92	122
21	Midhurst Rother College Midhurst · Academy sponsor led	46.0	+0.02 (-0.18 to 0.21)	44%	63%	4.26	214
22	Bourne Community College Emsworth · Foundation school	45.7	+0.15 (-0.09 to 0.40)	39%	66%	3.85	133
23	Steyning Grammar School Steyning · Academy converter	45.1	-0.02 (-0.17 to 0.13)	44%	65%	4.06	367
24	The Regis School West Sussex · Academy sponsor led	44.7	+0.25 (0.08 to 0.42)	52%	69%	3.96	265
25	Chichester Free School Chichester · Free schools	44.5	+0.00 (-0.29 to 0.29)	39%	71%	3.76	99
26	The Sir Robert Woodard Academy Sompting · Academy sponsor led	44.4	-0.18 (-0.35 to -0.01)	42%	70%	4.35	262
27	Sackville School East Grinstead · Community school	44.3	-0.04 (-0.21 to 0.14)	37%	64%	3.91	269
28	Imberhorne School East Grinstead · Community school	44.2	-0.05 (-0.22 to 0.13)	41%	63%	3.93	266
29	Holy Trinity CofE Secondary School, Crawley Crawley · Voluntary aided school	42.9	-0.31 (-0.51 to -0.12)	34%	58%	3.56	210
30	Ormiston Six Villages Academy Chichester · Academy sponsor led	42.0	-0.10 (-0.34 to 0.14)	44%	59%	3.48	133
31	Chichester High School Chichester · Academy converter	40.8	-0.43 (-0.61 to -0.24)	29%	59%	3.49	250
32	The Burgess Hill Academy Burgess Hill · Academy sponsor led	40.4	-0.46 (-0.65 to -0.27)	39%	60%	3.38	232
33	The Academy, Selsey Chichester · Academy sponsor led	40.2	-0.25 (-0.53 to 0.03)	26%	53%	3.20	105
34	Felpham Community College Bognor Regis · Community school	40.0	-0.47 (-0.64 to -0.30)	34%	54%	3.42	274
35	The Angmering School Littlehampton · Community school	39.3	-0.41 (-0.61 to -0.22)	31%	55%	3.23	216
36	The Gatwick School Crawley · Free schools	37.4	-0.42 (-0.69 to -0.15)	28%	55%	3.13	111
37	The Littlehampton Academy Littlehampton · Academy sponsor led	37.3	-0.69 (-0.88 to -0.51)	30%	48%	3.12	228
38	Thomas Bennett Community College Crawley · Academy converter	32.5	-0.95 (-1.16 to -0.73)	22%	42%	2.89	193
–	Ifield Community College Crawley · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2024	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	The Forest School Horsham · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2024	–	–	–	–	–	–

Schools with the same Attainment 8 score share a rank (shown as "=").

Independent schools in West Sussex 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
Ardingly College Haywards Heath · Other independent school	12.1	0%	144
Burgess Hill Girls Burgess Hill · Other independent school	37.9	0%	62
Christ's Hospital Horsham · Other independent school	12.0	0%	143
Farlington School Horsham · Other independent school	32.6	0%	38
Great Ballard School Chichester · Other independent school	29.4	0%	21
Hurstpierpoint College Hassocks · Other independent school	12.4	0%	190
Lancing College Lancing · Other independent school	39.3	0%	125
Our Lady of Sion School West Sussex · Other independent school	47.4	0%	51
Seaford College Other independent school	30.7	0%	139
Shoreham College Other independent school	55.3	61%	64
Slindon College Arundel · Other independent school	16.3	0%	16
Worth School Crawley · Other independent school	26.8	0%	125

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

See the best secondary schools in West Sussex on our composite score

West Sussex GCSE results 2024: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in West Sussex ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in West Sussex with published 2024 GCSE results

More about schools in West Sussex

West Sussex GCSE results: common questions