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

On 2023 Attainment 8, Standish Community High School topped the table in Wigan with 53.5, 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 Wigan GCSE results?

This page is the 2023 archive (the 2022/23 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 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.

Wigan GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

19 state secondary schools in Wigan 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.

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

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

Secondary schools in Wigan ranked on Attainment 8

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

Secondary schools in Wigan 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	Standish Community High School Wigan · Academy converter	53.5	+0.05 (-0.13 to 0.22)	59%	75%	4.43	249
2	Golborne High School Warrington · Foundation school	51.7	+0.05 (-0.14 to 0.25)	56%	76%	4.63	201
3	St Peter's Catholic High School Wigan · Voluntary aided school	51.4	-0.25 (-0.45 to -0.06)	55%	78%	4.28	204
4	St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Ashton-in-Makerfield Wigan · Voluntary aided school	49.7	+0.13 (-0.05 to 0.32)	50%	74%	4.25	230
5	Shevington High School Wigan · Community school	47.9	-0.25 (-0.49 to -0.01)	47%	70%	4.09	135
6	Cansfield High School Wigan · Community school	47.2	-0.28 (-0.48 to -0.07)	39%	64%	3.98	184
7	Fred Longworth High School Manchester · Academy converter	47.1	-0.16 (-0.34 to 0.02)	49%	69%	4.15	245
8	Lowton Church of England High School Warrington · Foundation school	47.0	-0.10 (-0.34 to 0.15)	34%	68%	3.93	138
9	St Mary's Catholic High School Manchester · Voluntary aided school	46.3	-0.34 (-0.51 to -0.16)	47%	66%	4.04	249
10	The Byrchall High School Wigan · Academy converter	45.1	-0.32 (-0.53 to -0.11)	41%	70%	3.96	168
11	Outwood Academy Hindley Wigan · Academy sponsor led	42.7	-0.35 (-0.56 to -0.13)	39%	58%	3.85	173
12	St John Fisher Catholic High School Wigan · Voluntary aided school	42.1	-0.71 (-0.91 to -0.50)	36%	56%	3.39	194
13	The Deanery Church of England High School and Sixth Form College Wigan · Voluntary aided school	41.8	-0.44 (-0.62 to -0.26)	30%	52%	3.53	251
14	Hawkley Hall High School Wigan · Academy converter	41.5	-0.54 (-0.73 to -0.36)	38%	64%	3.36	225
15	Atherton High School Atherton · Free schools	40.4	-0.18 (-0.51 to 0.16)	32%	57%	3.51	74
16	Bedford High School Leigh · Community school	37.0	-0.73 (-0.93 to -0.54)	27%	56%	3.15	212
17	Dean Trust Rose Bridge Wigan · Academy sponsor led	36.0	-1.10 (-1.34 to -0.85)	21%	40%	3.09	131
18	The Westleigh School Leigh · Academy sponsor led	34.3	-0.75 (-0.98 to -0.53)	19%	43%	2.79	160
19	Dean Trust Wigan Wigan · Academy sponsor led	30.4	-1.52 (-1.76 to -1.27)	14%	29%	2.82	137

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 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 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Wigan ranked on Attainment 8

More about schools in Wigan

Wigan GCSE results: common questions