GCSE results 2026

Cheshire East GCSE results 2026

Provisional 2025/26 results for 21 state secondary schools in Cheshire East, 4,274 pupils. Cheshire East ranks 64 of 151 councils for Attainment 8, which fell by 0.2 points on 2025.

Grade 5+ English & maths

46.1%

1.7 pts below England

Grade 7+ English & maths

12.8%

1.9 pts below England

Attainment 8

47.5

0.1 points below England

Council rank

64 / 151

By average Attainment 8

Cheshire East at a glance

Highest Attainment 8: Poynton High School (54.4).
Schools range from 27.4 to 54.4 on Attainment 8, a spread of 27.0 points, so the school you choose matters more than the council average.
Disadvantaged pupils averaged 35.1, 15.4 points behind their classmates (a wider gap than England’s 13.8). They did best at All Hallows Catholic College (40.7).
Most improved on 2025: Ruskin Community High School, up 7.3 points to 45.2.

Every Cheshire East secondary school, ranked

Ranked by Attainment 8 · 2025/26 provisional · E&M: English and maths

#	School	Pupils	Attainment 8	vs 2025	Grade 4+ E&M	Grade 5+ E&M	Grade 7+ E&M	Disadvantaged A8
1	Poynton High School	238	54.4	+1.4	81.9%	62.6%	16.4%	32.1
2	Sandbach High School and Sixth Form CollegeGirls	218	54.3	−1.3	78.4%	62.4%	18.3%	40.6
3	Knutsford Academy	214	52.9	−2.0	80.4%	63.1%	21.5%	39.2
4	The Fallibroome Academy	239	51.7	−1.7	73.6%	55.6%	13.0%	37.4
5	Wilmslow High School	356	51.1	−0.3	75.0%	52.2%	17.4%	39.2
6	All Hallows Catholic CollegeRoman Catholic	204	50.7	+1.1	78.9%	52.9%	13.7%	40.7
7	Tytherington School	233	50.7	+0.6	73.4%	54.1%	18.5%	36.8
8	Brine Leas School	222	50.2	+0.5	78.8%	54.1%	15.3%	40.5
9	Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School	226	49.4	+1.2	69.0%	47.8%	16.4%	38.4
10	St Thomas More Catholic High SchoolRoman Catholic	127	49.0	+1.3	69.3%	44.1%	17.3%	38.3
11	Alsager School	256	48.6	−3.3	67.2%	42.6%	10.2%	39.4
12	Eaton Bank Academy	166	48.0	+1.1	65.7%	39.8%	12.0%	36.9
13	The Macclesfield Academy	113	46.2	+3.5	62.8%	38.9%	12.4%	30.7
14	Sandbach SchoolBoys	260	45.9	−2.3	65.8%	41.5%	11.9%	35.5
15	Ruskin Community High School	124	45.2	+7.3	67.7%	52.4%	9.7%	35.3
16	Shavington Academy	172	44.2	−3.6	64.0%	42.4%	9.3%	33.0
17	Congleton High School	195	43.5	−1.3	61.5%	34.4%	6.7%	34.0
18	Middlewich High School	140	41.3	+0.1	54.3%	28.6%	6.4%	30.5
19	The Oaks Academy	140	32.6	−2.8	32.9%	15.0%	2.9%	26.1
20	Crewe Engineering and Design UTC	97	31.6	−0.8	41.2%	18.6%	2.1%	28.7
21	Sir William Stanier School	114	27.4	−1.0	25.4%	9.6%	1.8%	24.7
	England average		47.6		66.8%	47.8%	14.7%	37.7

Disadvantaged A8: Attainment 8 of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years or looked after; blank where the school has too few to publish. Small year groups move more from year to year.

Cheshire East against the rest of the North West

Grade 5+ in English and maths, 2026

Trafford65.7%
Stockport52.9%
Warrington50.8%
Bolton47.9%
Manchester46.4%
Cheshire East46.1%
Wirral46.0%
Lancashire45.0%
Cheshire West and Chester44.4%
Blackburn with Darwen44.4%
Tameside44.3%
Salford44.2%
Wigan44.1%
Westmorland and Furness42.8%
St. Helens41.9%
Oldham41.4%
Rochdale41.2%
Sefton40.2%
Bury39.6%
Liverpool39.1%
Blackpool37.1%
Halton36.5%
Cumberland34.0%
Knowsley26.2%

Reading these figures

Attainment 8 is out of 90: a pupil’s grades in eight GCSE slots added up, with English and maths counted twice.
There is no Progress 8 this year (these pupils sat no KS2 SATs), so results partly reflect each school’s intake.
These are provisional figures; revised ones with re-marks follow in early 2027.
Source: Department for Education, Key stage 4 performance (school-level data). Council figures are our pupil-weighted calculation over state-funded mainstream schools; independent schools are not included.