Which school had the best GCSE results in Wirral in 2024?

On 2024 Attainment 8, West Kirby Grammar School topped the table in Wirral with 68.3, 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 Wirral GCSE results?

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

Wirral GCSE results 2024: secondary school league table

19 state secondary schools in Wirral 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. 1 school with no published results is listed at the end. 2 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

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

Local Authority 20 state secondary schools 2023/24 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Wirral ranked on Attainment 8

19 of 20 schools have published 2024 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2023/24.

Secondary schools in Wirral 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 , up 1 place since 2023	West Kirby Grammar School Wirral · Academy converter	68.3	+0.42 (0.20 to 0.64)	94%	100%	6.39	184
2 , up 1 place since 2023	Upton Hall School FCJ Wirral · Academy converter	68.2	+0.91 (0.69 to 1.13)	90%	98%	6.58	159
3 , down 2 places since 2023	Wirral Grammar School for Girls Wirral · Academy converter	67.3	+0.38 (0.17 to 0.59)	89%	97%	6.22	180
4 , up 1 place since 2023	Wirral Grammar School for Boys Wirral · Academy converter	65.7	+0.36 (0.13 to 0.59)	94%	99%	6.20	157
5 , down 1 place since 2023	Calday Grange Grammar School Wirral · Academy converter	64.7	+0.31 (0.12 to 0.50)	91%	95%	6.17	221
6	St Anselm's College Prenton · Academy converter	55.6	+0.03 (-0.20 to 0.26)	72%	91%	5.02	162
7	Birkenhead High School Academy Prenton · Academy sponsor led	47.7	+0.43 (0.19 to 0.68)	38%	72%	4.18	129
8	Pensby High School Wirral · Foundation school	43.7	+0.28 (0.06 to 0.50)	38%	68%	3.72	163
9	Weatherhead High School Wallasey · Academy converter	41.6	-0.27 (-0.46 to -0.09)	27%	52%	3.68	236
10	Prenton High School for Girls Birkenhead · Academy converter	41.2	+0.02 (-0.20 to 0.25)	34%	59%	3.50	154
11 , up 1 place since 2023	St John Plessington Catholic College Wirral · Academy converter	38.7	-0.35 (-0.53 to -0.18)	27%	48%	3.37	269
12 , up 1 place since 2023	Woodchurch High School Wirral · Academy converter	38.6	-0.09 (-0.26 to 0.08)	26%	53%	3.22	280
13 , up 1 place since 2023	Ridgeway High School Prenton · Foundation school	36.5	-0.16 (-0.37 to 0.06)	22%	47%	2.96	171
14 , up 1 place since 2023	Co-op Academy Bebington Wirral · Academy sponsor led	35.7	-0.34 (-0.54 to -0.13)	22%	39%	2.93	191
15 , down 4 places since 2023	Hilbre High School Wirral · Academy converter	35.4	-0.43 (-0.63 to -0.23)	24%	45%	2.82	197
16 , up 2 places since 2023	Birkenhead Park School Birkenhead · Academy sponsor led	33.8	-0.55 (-0.82 to -0.28)	16%	35%	2.83	122
17 , down 1 place since 2023	The Mosslands School Wallasey · Community school	33.5	-0.83 (-1.04 to -0.63)	15%	44%	2.78	188
18 , down 1 place since 2023	St Mary's Catholic College Wallasey · Academy sponsor led	29.3	-0.99 (-1.21 to -0.76)	11%	31%	2.37	153
19	Co-op Academy Oldershaw Wallasey · Academy converter	27.9	-1.24 (-1.46 to -1.02)	13%	31%	2.31	164
–	South Wirral High School Wirral · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2024	–	–	–	–	–	–

Under each rank: the change since the 2023 table, in places gained (+) or lost (−). No figure means the rank is unchanged or the school had no ranked 2023 result.

Independent schools in Wirral 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
Birkenhead School Prenton · Other independent school	49.5	0%	89
Progress Schools - Hamilton Square Other independent school	4.2	0%	34

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

See the best secondary schools in Wirral on our composite score

Wirral GCSE results 2024: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Wirral ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Wirral with published 2024 GCSE results

More about schools in Wirral

Wirral GCSE results: common questions