Which school had the best GCSE results in Wigan in 2022?

On 2022 Attainment 8, Golborne High School topped the table in Wigan with 57.1. 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 Wigan GCSE results?

This page is the 2022 archive (the 2021/22 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Wigan are on the main Wigan 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 Wigan show no 2022 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2022 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.

Wigan GCSE results 2022: secondary school league table

18 state secondary schools in Wigan ranked on their 2022 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2021/22 academic year), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, Progress 8, EBacc average point score and cohort size for each school. 1 school with no published results is listed at the end.

This is the 2022 archive of the table. See the latest Wigan GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Local Authority 19 state secondary schools 2021/22 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Wigan ranked on Attainment 8

18 of 19 schools have published 2022 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2021/22.

Secondary schools in Wigan ranked on Attainment 8, 2022 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Progress 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
1	Golborne High School Warrington · Foundation school	57.1	+0.42 (0.21 to 0.63)	67%	81%	5.19	180
2	St Peter's Catholic High School Wigan · Voluntary aided school	56.8	-0.01 (-0.20 to 0.18)	66%	82%	4.74	205
3	Standish Community High School Wigan · Academy converter	56.3	+0.17 (-0.01 to 0.34)	67%	83%	4.83	249
4	Cansfield High School Wigan · Community school	53.5	+0.11 (-0.10 to 0.31)	60%	73%	4.62	188
5	Lowton Church of England High School Warrington · Foundation school	52.7	-0.02 (-0.25 to 0.21)	57%	79%	4.59	146
6	St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Ashton-in-Makerfield Wigan · Voluntary aided school	52.2	+0.02 (-0.16 to 0.20)	53%	80%	4.27	242
7	Fred Longworth High School Manchester · Academy converter	50.9	-0.15 (-0.32 to 0.02)	54%	75%	4.45	264
8	The Byrchall High School Wigan · Academy converter	49.6	-0.06 (-0.27 to 0.16)	51%	75%	4.41	169
9	Shevington High School Wigan · Community school	49.2	-0.41 (-0.63 to -0.19)	51%	75%	4.18	161
10	St Mary's Catholic High School Manchester · Voluntary aided school	47.4	-0.40 (-0.57 to -0.22)	42%	65%	3.98	255
11	Hawkley Hall High School Wigan · Academy converter	46.6	-0.34 (-0.53 to -0.15)	49%	67%	3.70	227
12	The Deanery Church of England High School and Sixth Form College Wigan · Voluntary aided school	46.0	-0.39 (-0.58 to -0.21)	37%	57%	3.84	238
13	The Westleigh School Leigh · Academy sponsor led	43.6	-0.53 (-0.74 to -0.32)	39%	60%	3.64	185
14	St John Fisher Catholic High School Wigan · Voluntary aided school	43.1	-0.60 (-0.80 to -0.41)	37%	63%	3.58	198
15	Atherton High School Atherton · Free schools	42.5	-0.43 (-0.74 to -0.12)	37%	56%	3.66	86
16	Bedford High School Leigh · Community school	42.4	-0.38 (-0.58 to -0.18)	40%	64%	3.86	205
17	Dean Trust Rose Bridge Wigan · Academy sponsor led	40.7	-0.68 (-0.92 to -0.44)	28%	47%	3.24	137
18	Dean Trust Wigan Wigan · Academy sponsor led	30.8	-1.51 (-1.77 to -1.25)	14%	35%	2.61	116
–	Outwood Academy Hindley Wigan · Academy sponsor led · No published GCSE results for 2022	–	–	–	–	–	–

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.

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 2022 archive of the table: each school's 2022 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2022 figure is listed unranked even where it has results for a later year. The main Wigan GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in Wigan on our composite score

Wigan GCSE results 2022: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Wigan ranked on Attainment 8

More about schools in Wigan

Wigan GCSE results: common questions