Secondary School Achievement Explorer

All six key measures load in the background for all pupils, disadvantaged pupils (PP), boys and girls. Each result is compared with the same pupil group in England. Selecting Disadvantaged pupils restricts this analysis to that pupil group. If strengths or priorities are empty, that category is checked against the published local authority average for the same group, measure and year. If no result exceeds either benchmark, the closest results appear as relative strengths, with their actual gaps. Local authority averages include all admission categories; the benchmark is named on each result.

An action-planning estimate using the latest matching school and England results. For a percentage measure, it estimates how many additional pupils would need to meet the threshold for the school rate to reach the national rate, using the school’s published GCSE maths entries for the same year. It is not a prediction or a causal estimate.

Choose a percentage or rate measure (for example, English and maths grade 5+). Scores such as Attainment 8 cannot be converted directly into a count of pupils.

Select a school to see its strongest subjects locally.

Subject rankings use all pupils because the subject dataset does not provide disadvantaged-pupil breakdowns. The selected school’s own subjects are ordered by its strongest local rank for the percentage of single-award GCSE entries achieving grades 9–4. Grammar schools are compared only with grammar schools; non-selective schools are compared only with non-selective schools, in the same local authority and year. Unclassified schools cannot receive a matched ranking. If two dates are selected, the latest is used. Missing or suppressed rates are excluded; at least two schools with numeric results are required per subject. Percentage bands round up in 10% steps and include the full group of schools tied at the same rate; equal rates share a rank. Entry totals are shown to help interpret small subjects.

Attainment 8 rankings for non-selective schools in grammar-school areas. Toggle Include grammar schools to compare both.

DfE criterion: 25% or more of secondary pupils attend selective schools. DfE definition

All pupils. SEND Attainment 8 is unavailable at individual-school level in the connected DfE sources; no school SEND ranking can be calculated.

Open this tab to load the rankings.

School results use Attainment 8 for the selected pupil group and academic year. Cohort size is the published number of pupils in that same group at the end of KS4; missing or suppressed counts are shown as a dash. Missing, suppressed and ambiguous scores remain unranked below numeric scores. Area membership and grammar/non-selective categories come from DfE institution information (15 October 2026). Progress 8 uses the latest numeric score available for the same school URN at or before the selected year; predecessor-school scores are not substituted. DfE Progress 8 availability guidance. Attainment 8 determines the ranking.

Compare five key attainment measures for up to three schools in the same academic year. Select schools below; results update automatically.

Add up to three schools to compare their key results.

English and maths pass means grade 4 or above in both subjects. Percentages use the DfE end-of-KS4 pupil cohort for each school, rather than subject entry counts. A dash means missing, suppressed or ambiguous data. Highlighted values are the highest among the selected schools, including ties; they describe attainment rather than school effectiveness.

Choose a school using the search panel.

Select a school and open this tab to load subject results.

Entries refer to the selected subject and qualification, rather than the whole school cohort. Percentages use total subject entries as the denominator. Grade 4+, 5+ and 7+ totals apply to single-award GCSEs. Other qualifications retain their published grades.

A dash means a result is unavailable, suppressed or cannot be calculated reliably. Missing grade rows are shown as zero only when the known grade counts account for all published entries. These are undiscounted results; a pupil can have more than one entry. Years come from published subject-dataset versions and may differ from the school overview period.

Compare schools in the same local authority and academic year, ranked from highest to lowest average Attainment 8 score.

Choose a local authority to see its schools.

All-pupil Attainment 8 results are loaded from the DfE API for the selected year. Missing, suppressed or ambiguous scores are unranked and shown below the numeric results. Rankings are recalculated within your filters.

Grammar means the published “Selective schools” admission category. Non-selective includes schools in both highly selective areas and other areas; unclassified schools appear only under All schools. Admission categories and authority membership use the same academic year from DfE institution information, published 15 October 2026. A ranking describes attainment, not school effectiveness.

Select a local authority and subject. Changes apply automatically. Schools are ranked by the percentage of subject entries achieving grades 9–4, from highest to lowest.

Select a local authority and subject.