Disadvantage gap
Gap = result for pupils not known to be disadvantaged minus result for disadvantaged pupils. Both gaps use the same measure and academic year.
Performance over time
Choose a measure and academic yearSchool strengths & priorities
Available after loading a schoolSee where the school performs strongest and where it could improve, compared with the same pupil groups nationally or locally.
How strengths and priorities are identified
Strengths are above benchmark; priorities are below. Percentage-point gaps are ranked largest first. Each result names its benchmark and year. Explore the detailed analysis for attainment scores, cohort context and trends.
Strengths
Above benchmarkPriorities
Below benchmarkThis School’s Top 3 Subjects
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The school’s strongest GCSE subjects, ranked against the same school type in its local authority: grades 9–7 for grammar schools, grades 9–4 for non-selective schools. These rankings cover all pupils.
How subject rankings are calculated
Grammar schools are compared with grammar schools using grades 9–7; non-selective schools are compared with non-selective schools using grades 9–4. Comparisons use the same local authority and year. Subjects are ordered by the selected school’s strongest local rank. Rankings use single-award GCSE results and all pupils; disadvantaged-pupil subject breakdowns are unavailable. If two years are selected, the latest is used. Schools with an unclassified admission category cannot receive a matched ranking. Missing or suppressed rates are excluded, and each subject needs at least two schools with numeric results. Equal rates share a rank. Percentage bands round up in 10% steps and include all schools tied at the same rate. Entry totals help put smaller subjects in context.
How Far?
Available for percentage-based measuresAn 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.
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Definitions & sources
The headline favours a top-20% local GCSE subject ranking when all pupils and all measures are selected; otherwise it uses a positive performance gap. Subject grades 9–4 do not reveal which grades filled Attainment 8 slots or their exact contribution. Subject rankings compare the same admission category and include ties. Department trends use DfE single-award GCSE subject entry counts for all pupils: grades 9–4 as a share of entries, matched by subject name across selected years. Each compared result needs at least 10 published entries. The change is a net percentage-point difference from the earliest comparable selected result to the latest selected year, so subjects may cover different spans; suppressed or absent years are never estimated. A dip in an intermediate year that later recovered is not listed as a net decrease. Vocational trends use Level 2 pass or above as a share of entries, matched by both subject and qualification; unlevelled Pass/Merit/Distinction grades, suppressed values and mixed qualifications are not treated as equivalent. Changing cohorts and entry patterns can affect the figures, and these subject rates do not measure Attainment 8 contributions. The results year determines the current evidence. The closing synthesis selects up to three distinct themes on each side: positive English and maths Attainment 8 contributions for one group are combined. The closing synthesis gives space to locally lower-half GCSE subjects and to GCSE or vocational subjects whose published pass rate has fallen by at least 5 percentage points across the selected years. This 5-point editorial threshold is not a significance test; changes in cohorts and entries need review. Related English-and-maths threshold findings for one pupil group are combined, and any same-group A8 component gap is shown only as separate supporting evidence, not an explanation of the combined rate. Full supporting evidence retains the individual published findings. Additional years add context and do not replace a missing current result. Positive gaps are above-benchmark findings; negative gaps are below-benchmark findings. Percentage-point and attainment-score gaps are ranked separately. Cohorts and comparisons match the pupil group, measure and year. Trends use only published numeric results for both school and benchmark. Local authority comparisons use the results year’s authority consistently across selected years and include all admission categories. Within-school disadvantaged comparisons use pupils not known to be disadvantaged. Differences identify questions to investigate; they do not prove causes.
Selective Area Rankings
Attainment 8Attainment 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.
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Scope: all local authorities containing grammar schools in the chosen year.
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Table average Attainment 8
Calculated from the schools shown in this table.
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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.
School Comparison
Compare five key attainment measures for up to three schools in the same academic year. Select schools below; results update automatically.
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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.
Compare subject results
Compare subjects with published exam results, rather than a complete list of subjects taught. Results cover all pupils and the academic year selected above.
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About these comparisons
Each row compares the same subject and qualification. Percentages use subject entries, not the whole school cohort. For double-award GCSEs, both grades must meet the threshold and each entry is counted once. Vocational results use their own Level 2 Pass+, Merit+ or Distinction+ thresholds; unlevelled grades are not converted to GCSE grades. Missing or suppressed rates remain unavailable. “No published entries” does not mean a school does not teach that subject. Shared subjects require a published entry record for every selected school; a suppressed rate does not remove a subject from that list. Small entry counts should be interpreted with care.
Subject Overview
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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.