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The share of pupils reaching grade 5 or above in both English and maths, for every local authority, and the gap between poorer children and their classmates in each one.

Department for Education figures for 2024/25, state-funded schools in England. Not the same measure as the June-series numbers on the rest of this tool.

Quick reference

England
45.4%
Highest area
69.3%
Lowest area
24.7%
Spread
44.6 points

Across the 152 local authorities in England, the share of pupils reaching grade 5 or above in English and maths runs from 24.7% in Knowsley to 69.3% in Kingston upon Thames. Nationally the figure is 45.4%.

Looking at sixth form instead? A-level results by area maps the same authorities subject by subject.

Hartlepool — 42.9%Middlesbrough — 37.1%Redcar and Cleveland — 46.2%Stockton-on-Tees — 47.6%Darlington — 45.7%Halton — 39.3%Warrington — 47.9%Blackburn with Darwen — 43.9%Blackpool — 30.3%Kingston upon Hull, City of — 36.6%East Riding of Yorkshire — 42.6%North East Lincolnshire — 36.2%North Lincolnshire — 41.8%York — 55.8%Derby — 38.8%Leicester — 43.2%Rutland — 54.3%Nottingham — 39.8%Herefordshire, County of — 42.8%Telford and Wrekin — 39.2%Stoke-on-Trent — 33.2%Bath and North East Somerset — 48.7%Bristol, City of — 45.9%North Somerset — 45.5%South Gloucestershire — 42.8%Plymouth — 46.2%Torbay — 49.6%Swindon — 43.1%Peterborough — 39.2%Luton — 42.4%Southend-on-Sea — 57.1%Thurrock — 45.3%Medway — 44.1%Bracknell Forest — 46.3%West Berkshire — 48.4%Reading — 51.3%Slough — 57.5%Windsor and Maidenhead — 49.3%Wokingham — 60.8%Milton Keynes — 44.2%Brighton and Hove — 47.9%Portsmouth — 35.2%Southampton — 38.9%Isle of Wight — 37.1%County Durham — 41.6%Cheshire East — 45.1%Cheshire West and Chester — 42.4%Shropshire — 36.9%Cornwall — 43.3%Isles of Scilly — 45.5%Wiltshire — 44.6%Bedford — 43.7%Central Bedfordshire — 41.5%Northumberland — 41.7%Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole — 56.7%Dorset — 40.7%Buckinghamshire — 58.7%North Northamptonshire — 38.0%West Northamptonshire — 42.0%Cumberland — 36.5%Westmorland and Furness — 42.3%North Yorkshire — 47.0%Somerset — 40.3%Bolton — 43.9%Bury — 38.9%Manchester — 41.3%Oldham — 36.7%Rochdale — 35.0%Salford — 40.2%Stockport — 48.9%Tameside — 40.9%Trafford — 63.9%Wigan — 38.7%Knowsley — 24.7%Liverpool — 38.1%St. Helens — 35.9%Sefton — 39.5%Wirral — 44.0%Barnsley — 45.0%Doncaster — 43.9%Rotherham — 38.7%Sheffield — 41.7%Newcastle upon Tyne — 45.5%North Tyneside — 43.2%South Tyneside — 38.5%Sunderland — 41.5%Birmingham — 45.4%Coventry — 41.1%Dudley — 40.7%Sandwell — 33.8%Solihull — 47.6%Walsall — 38.7%Wolverhampton — 39.5%Bradford — 37.4%Calderdale — 50.7%Kirklees — 46.5%Leeds — 46.5%Wakefield — 45.5%Gateshead — 49.9%Barking and Dagenham — 47.5%Barnet — 63.1%Bexley — 53.8%Brent — 53.2%Bromley — 53.5%Camden — 46.8%Croydon — 42.4%Ealing — 56.7%Enfield — 45.5%Greenwich — 46.4%Hackney — 49.1%Hammersmith and Fulham — 61.7%Haringey — 47.6%Harrow — 53.6%Havering — 47.5%Hillingdon — 49.5%Hounslow — 52.8%Islington — 48.0%Kensington and Chelsea — 61.4%Kingston upon Thames — 69.3%Lambeth — 41.1%Lewisham — 44.8%Merton — 56.4%Newham — 53.4%Redbridge — 59.5%Richmond upon Thames — 64.9%Southwark — 54.9%Sutton — 67.9%Tower Hamlets — 47.5%Waltham Forest — 45.6%Wandsworth — 57.1%Westminster — 58.3%Cambridgeshire — 49.6%Derbyshire — 42.9%Devon — 46.1%East Sussex — 41.8%Essex — 43.1%Gloucestershire — 53.1%Hampshire — 44.8%Hertfordshire — 53.4%Kent — 47.0%Lancashire — 43.5%Leicestershire — 46.8%Lincolnshire — 41.9%Norfolk — 44.9%Nottinghamshire — 46.9%Oxfordshire — 48.4%Staffordshire — 39.5%Suffolk — 39.9%Surrey — 55.2%Warwickshire — 49.8%West Sussex — 45.9%Worcestershire — 40.9%
London
City of London — no figure publishedBarking and Dagenham — 47.5%Barnet — 63.1%Bexley — 53.8%Brent — 53.2%Bromley — 53.5%Camden — 46.8%Croydon — 42.4%Ealing — 56.7%Enfield — 45.5%Greenwich — 46.4%Hackney — 49.1%Hammersmith and Fulham — 61.7%Haringey — 47.6%Harrow — 53.6%Havering — 47.5%Hillingdon — 49.5%Hounslow — 52.8%Islington — 48.0%Kensington and Chelsea — 61.4%Kingston upon Thames — 69.3%Lambeth — 41.1%Lewisham — 44.8%Merton — 56.4%Newham — 53.4%Redbridge — 59.5%Richmond upon Thames — 64.9%Southwark — 54.9%Sutton — 67.9%Tower Hamlets — 47.5%Waltham Forest — 45.6%Wandsworth — 57.1%Westminster — 58.3%
under 35% 55% and over

Darker means better in both views. London's boroughs are small on the map and among the strongest performers, so the inset and the lists carry the same figures.

Every area by result

1 Kingston upon Thames 69.3%
2 Sutton 67.9%
3 Richmond upon Thames 64.9%
4 Trafford 63.9%
5 Barnet 63.1%

The gap for poorer children

Across England, 25.8% of poorer children reached grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 53.1% of their classmates, a gap of 27.3 percentage points. That gap is not the same everywhere. It is 9.3 points in Tower Hamlets and 42.1 points in Trafford.

Trafford is one of the strongest areas in the country on the first map, and has the widest gap in the country on the second. A poorer child at a school in Tower Hamlets reaches grade 5 more often than a poorer child at a school in Trafford, by 13.6 points.

A child counts as poorer here if they have had free school meals at any point in the last six years, or have been in care. That is the Department for Education's own definition. The gap is shown for 151 of the 152 authorities; the rest have too few poorer pupils for a percentage to mean anything, and are left blank rather than guessed at.

By region

The same measure for the nine English regions. Nine rows rank more clearly than they map, so they are listed rather than shaded.

London 52.9%
South East 48.1%
South West 46.3%
East of England 46.1%
Yorkshire and The Humber 43.7%
North East 43.3%
East Midlands 43.2%
North West 42%
West Midlands 41.7%
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About the data

Source: Department for Education, key stage 4 performance, 2024/25, revised. The measure is the share of pupils at the end of key stage 4 reaching grade 5 or above in both English and maths. Coverage is state-funded schools in england, so independent schools are not included.

Pupils are grouped by the area their school is in, not by where they live. The two are close for most families and not the same for all of them. The City of London is one visible consequence: it has no state secondary school, so it has no figure here at all.

This is not the same measure as the June-series figures on the rest of this tool. Those count every entry in an exam series, at any age, across the UK, and are published on results day. These count one figure per pupil at the end of key stage 4 in England, and are published the following spring. The two answer different questions and should not be compared with each other.

The authorities do not sum exactly to the England figure: 4,536 pupils (0.73% of the cohort) are in state-funded settings that are not attributed to a local authority, and only 198 of them reached grade 5 or above. Across the authorities alone the figure is 45.74%, against 45.4% for England as a whole.

Boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Geography Portal, December 2024, generalised and simplified for the web. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Attainment figures contain public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Our charts and computed statistics are free to reuse with credit to Tutorperch and the Department for Education.

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