State secondary schools in England

All 3,323 of them, one report each. The league tables publish a single figure per school; these show you the maths department and the French department separately, alongside Ofsted, attendance, sixth-form results and where leavers go next.

England only for now. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland publish results on their own scales and are not covered here.

Or compare schools side by side, subject by subject — the comparison the league tables leave out.

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Schools Results First choice Absence

Pupils passing English and maths at grade 5 or above.

51% and above
46%–51%
43%–46%
40%–43%
under 40%

Darker is more passing. Equal numbers of councils in each band.

London

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See all 152 councils as a list, by region.

The national picture

3,323: state secondaries, each with a report here
45.4%: of pupils pass English and maths at grade 5
84%: of families are offered the school they put first
1,994: of those schools have a sixth form
619: have no spare places at all

How much schools differ within one area

Take the share of pupils who pass English and maths at grade 5, the measure the map above shades by. In York every school sits within 22 points of every other; in Kent there is a 91-point difference between the highest and lowest scores. The typical council spans 50, across the 145 with enough schools to compare.

Where a council's schools sit close together, which one a child gets matters less; where they are far apart it matters a great deal. The widest spreads are all areas that kept grammar schools, which is also one explanation for the gap.

Department for Education figures for 2024/25, covering state-funded schools in England. Independent schools are not included.

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What these measures mean

School performance is published in a vocabulary of its own. These are the terms every report here uses.

Why two schools' Ofsted grades may not be comparable

Ofsted has changed how it inspects twice in recent years. A school's grade therefore depends as much on when it was last visited as on what was found: inspections from September 2024 issue no overall grade at all, and the report cards that replaced them only began in November 2025. Roughly one school in six has been through the current framework; nearly a quarter are still described by a judgement made before September 2019. Every school page here says which framework its grade came from and when.

A judgement from before September 2019 780
An overall grade, 2019 to 2024 1,430
Inspected after grades were scrapped, no overall word 557
The current report card 531
Never inspected 25

The measures

Attainment 8: The average pupil's total score across eight GCSE-equivalent subjects, with English and maths counting double. It is scored out of 90. A score of 50 is roughly equivalent to achieving a grade 5 across eight subjects.
Grades 4 and 5: GCSEs are graded from 9 down to 1. Grade 4 is a standard pass and broadly corresponds to the old grade C; grade 5 is what the government calls a strong pass. Grade 7 is broadly equivalent to an old grade A.
The EBacc: A combination of subjects rather than a qualification in its own right: English, Maths, the Sciences, a Language, and History or Geography. The figure shows the share of pupils entered for all the EBacc subject areas, so it gives an indication of how widely a school enters pupils for this particular combination of subjects.
Progress 8: A measure of how much progress pupils make between the end of primary school and the end of GCSE, rather than simply what grades they achieve. It takes pupils' prior attainment into account, making it useful for comparing schools with different intakes. Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 because the pupils concerned did not have Key Stage 2 tests that can be used as the normal starting point.
Persistent absence: The share of pupils who miss at least 10% of their possible sessions during the school year. This includes both authorised and unauthorised absence, so illness and other authorised reasons are included. Persistent absence has remained substantially higher than its pre-pandemic level.
First preference: The share of families who were offered the school they ranked first on their application, on national offer day in March. This figure is calculated across the relevant schools or admissions authority, so a high overall figure does not necessarily mean that every individual school is easy to get into.
Spare places: The amount of available capacity a school has compared with the number of pupils on roll. This is different from oversubscription: spare places measure whether a school has capacity, whereas oversubscription describes demand for places exceeding the number available. A school with no spare places may be popular, but a small school can also be full without receiving a large number of applications.
Average A-level grade: The average grade achieved across students' A-level entries. This is different from measures such as the proportion achieving AAB or better in two or more facilitating subjects, which are sometimes used to indicate higher attainment and university-entry performance.