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

On 2023 Attainment 8, South Wilts Grammar School topped the table in Wiltshire with 73.2, 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 Wiltshire GCSE results?

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

Wiltshire GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

34 state secondary schools in Wiltshire 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 schools with no published results are listed at the end. 9 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

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

County 37 state secondary schools 2022/23 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Wiltshire ranked on Attainment 8

34 of 37 schools have published 2023 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2022/23.

Secondary schools in Wiltshire 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	South Wilts Grammar School Salisbury · Academy converter	73.2	+0.61 (0.36 to 0.85)	97%	99%	6.56	157
2	Bishop Wordsworth's Church of England Grammar School Salisbury · Academy converter	71.9	+0.55 (0.31 to 0.79)	94%	99%	6.57	155
3 , up 8 places since 2022	St Laurence School Bradford-on-Avon · Academy converter	53.6	+0.24 (0.05 to 0.42)	50%	81%	4.60	228
4 , up 1 place since 2022	Lavington School Devizes · Academy converter	52.6	+0.08 (-0.14 to 0.31)	57%	79%	4.46	155
5 , down 2 places since 2022	Malmesbury School Malmesbury · Academy converter	52.1	+0.26 (0.07 to 0.44)	58%	79%	4.73	253
6	The Ridgeway School & Sixth Form College Swindon · Academy converter	52.0	+0.22 (0.06 to 0.38)	57%	74%	4.47	302
7	St Augustine's Catholic College Trowbridge · Academy converter	51.6	+0.23 (0.01 to 0.46)	52%	79%	4.48	155
8	Hardenhuish School Chippenham · Academy converter	51.2	+0.20 (0.02 to 0.38)	52%	73%	4.48	246
9 , down 5 places since 2022	St John's Marlborough Marlborough · Academy converter	51.1	+0.08 (-0.09 to 0.25)	54%	74%	4.69	261
10 , up 2 places since 2022	Royal Wootton Bassett Academy Swindon · Academy converter	50.1	+0.34 (0.17 to 0.51)	55%	76%	4.48	276
11 , up 4 places since 2022	Bradon Forest School Swindon · Academy converter	49.6	+0.24 (0.04 to 0.44)	54%	76%	4.44	204
12 , up 9 places since 2022	The Trafalgar School at Downton Salisbury · Academy converter	47.4	+0.18 (-0.04 to 0.39)	50%	75%	4.02	168
13 , up 3 places since 2022	The Commonweal School Swindon · Academy converter	47.2	-0.11 (-0.30 to 0.08)	45%	70%	4.04	221
14 , down 1 place since 2022	St Joseph's Catholic College Swindon · Academy converter	47.0	-0.06 (-0.23 to 0.12)	43%	66%	3.90	272
15 , down 6 places since 2022	Swindon Academy Swindon · Academy sponsor led	46.9	+0.45 (0.23 to 0.67)	51%	71%	4.25	191
16= , up 4 places since 2022	Kingdown School Warminster · Academy converter	46.3	-0.10 (-0.28 to 0.08)	42%	65%	4.00	239
16= , up 3 places since 2022	Lydiard Park Academy Swindon · Academy converter	46.3	+0.02 (-0.17 to 0.20)	42%	64%	3.92	222
18 , up 4 places since 2022	The Corsham School Corsham · Academy converter	45.3	-0.03 (-0.24 to 0.18)	38%	63%	4.04	184
19 , down 9 places since 2022	Matravers School Westbury · Foundation school	45.2	-0.04 (-0.27 to 0.20)	32%	53%	3.63	146
20 , down 6 places since 2022	Sheldon School Chippenham · Academy converter	44.8	-0.26 (-0.43 to -0.09)	42%	66%	3.85	276
21 , up 3 places since 2022	The Clarendon Academy Trowbridge · Academy sponsor led	44.4	-0.06 (-0.28 to 0.17)	32%	60%	3.91	154
22 , down 4 places since 2022	Nova Hreod Academy Swindon · Academy converter	43.9	-0.27 (-0.50 to -0.04)	35%	63%	4.03	160
23	Devizes School Devizes · Academy converter	43.4	+0.22 (-0.01 to 0.45)	38%	63%	3.77	153
24 , up 10 places since 2022	Wyvern St Edmund's Academy Salisbury · Academy converter	42.7	-0.18 (-0.35 to 0.00)	36%	58%	3.66	262
25 , up 1 place since 2022	The Dorcan Academy Swindon · Academy converter	41.6	-0.04 (-0.30 to 0.22)	30%	55%	3.54	132
26 , down 9 places since 2022	The John of Gaunt School Trowbridge · Academy converter	41.5	-0.24 (-0.43 to -0.04)	34%	60%	3.57	204
27 , up 2 places since 2022	The Stonehenge School Amesbury · Community school	41.4	+0.00 (-0.22 to 0.23)	27%	55%	3.23	161
28 , down 3 places since 2022	Kingsbury Green Academy Calne · Academy converter	41.0	-0.33 (-0.57 to -0.09)	36%	55%	3.57	139
29= , down 1 place since 2022	St Joseph's Catholic School Salisbury · Voluntary aided school	40.6	-0.27 (-0.53 to 0.00)	42%	64%	3.48	112
29= , up 1 place since 2022	The Wellington Academy Ludgershall · Academy sponsor led	40.6	-0.21 (-0.43 to 0.01)	27%	55%	3.32	173
31	Melksham Oak Community School Melksham · Academy converter	39.8	-0.53 (-0.73 to -0.33)	39%	55%	3.37	201
32 , up 1 place since 2022	UTC Swindon Swindon · University technical college	34.3	-1.01 (-1.43 to -0.59)	25%	37%	2.40	52
33 , down 7 places since 2022	Avon Valley Academy Salisbury · Academy converter	34.1	-0.29 (-0.64 to 0.07)	14%	41%	2.79	66
34 , down 2 places since 2022	Sarum Academy Salisbury · Academy sponsor led	32.2	-0.69 (-1.01 to -0.38)	12%	29%	2.68	84
–	Abbeyfield School Chippenham · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Five Rivers Online School Salisbury · Online provider · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Pewsey Vale School Pewsey · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–

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

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 Wiltshire 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
Brunel College Other independent school	8.1	0%	8
Chafyn-Godolphin Other independent school	26.8	0%	72
Dauntsey's School Devizes · Other independent school	15.4	0%	128
Leehurst Swan School Other independent school	25.4	0%	28
Marlborough College Wiltshire · Other independent school	24.3	0%	193
Oneschool Global Uk Salisbury Campus Salisbury · Other independent school	56.4	64%	25
St Marys Calne and St Margarets Prep Calne · Other independent school	38.1	0%	62
Stonar School Wiltshire · Other independent school	27.1	0%	50
Warminster School Warminster · Other independent school	33.6	0%	90

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

See the best secondary schools in Wiltshire on our composite score

Wiltshire GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Wiltshire ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Wiltshire with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Wiltshire

Wiltshire GCSE results: common questions