GCSE results 2026

Gloucestershire GCSE results 2026

Provisional 2025/26 results for 41 state secondary schools in Gloucestershire, 7,122 pupils. Gloucestershire ranks 27 of 151 councils for Attainment 8, which fell by 0.1 points on 2025.

Grade 5+ English & maths

53.8%

6.0 pts above England

Grade 7+ English & maths

17.9%

3.2 pts above England

Attainment 8

51.2

3.6 points above England

Council rank

27 / 151

By average Attainment 8

Gloucestershire at a glance

Highest Attainment 8: Pate's Grammar School (82.4); highest non-selective: Balcarras School (62.1).
Schools range from 32.9 to 82.4 on Attainment 8, a spread of 49.5 points, so the school you choose matters more than the council average.
Disadvantaged pupils averaged 37.2, 17.0 points behind their classmates (a wider gap than England’s 13.8). They did best at Marling School (73.0).
Gloucestershire has 7 grammar schools, which lift the council average. Compare the non-selective schools with each other. Grammar schools in Gloucestershire.
Most improved on 2025: The Cotswold Academy, up 5.7 points to 58.7.

Every Gloucestershire 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	Pate's Grammar SchoolGrammar	150	82.4	−0.3	99.3%	99.3%	84.7%	—
2	Sir Thomas Rich's SchoolGrammar · Boys	155	75.2	−2.0	98.1%	96.1%	61.9%	68.6
3	Denmark Road High SchoolGrammar · Girls	154	74.8	+1.9	99.4%	97.4%	67.5%	69.1
4	Stroud High SchoolGrammar · Girls	154	74.7	−2.2	100.0%	99.4%	61.7%	72.5
5	The Crypt SchoolGrammar	151	73.3	+0.6	98.7%	94.7%	51.0%	62.7
6	Marling SchoolGrammar · Boys	151	73.2	−0.7	100.0%	98.0%	61.6%	73.0
7	Ribston Hall High SchoolGrammar · Girls	148	67.6	−0.1	99.3%	91.2%	39.9%	71.7
8	Balcarras SchoolTop 10% three years running	194	62.1	+3.6	92.3%	79.9%	27.3%	41.1
9	The High School Leckhampton	119	59.7	—	85.7%	66.4%	22.7%	48.6
10	The Cotswold Academy	243	58.7	+5.7	84.4%	66.3%	24.7%	48.9
11	Farmor's School	162	54.8	+5.7	79.6%	66.0%	15.4%	42.2
12	Churchdown School	236	53.3	+1.8	78.8%	59.7%	11.0%	45.2
13	Cirencester Deer Park School	194	51.4	−1.1	76.8%	58.2%	13.4%	39.9
14	Katharine Lady Berkeley's School	248	50.7	−2.4	71.8%	55.6%	12.5%	35.8
15	Chipping Campden School	223	50.4	+3.1	72.2%	53.8%	15.2%	37.5
16	Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre	292	49.6	+1.5	70.5%	46.9%	10.6%	37.6
17	Cleeve School	290	49.4	−0.5	74.1%	53.8%	10.3%	39.3
18	Henley Bank High School	162	48.9	−0.1	70.4%	50.6%	13.6%	38.8
19	Severn Vale School	251	48.7	+5.0	71.3%	50.6%	8.4%	38.3
20	Cirencester Kingshill School	187	48.4	+0.2	72.7%	53.5%	13.9%	38.0
21	Thomas Keble School	137	47.3	−0.3	62.8%	42.3%	5.8%	31.9
22	Five Acres High School	153	45.9	−5.9	65.4%	48.4%	11.1%	37.1
23	Maidenhill School	122	45.6	+0.1	66.4%	51.6%	6.6%	35.6
24	Chosen Hill School	204	45.1	−3.5	66.7%	40.7%	5.9%	36.1
25	Rednock School	205	44.8	−0.1	65.9%	42.9%	7.3%	33.1
26	Holmleigh Park High School	231	44.5	+2.7	61.9%	42.0%	10.0%	36.2
27	Pittville School	170	44.2	−3.3	56.5%	32.9%	5.9%	38.8
28	Dene Magna School	168	44.1	−8.5	63.7%	36.9%	6.5%	36.8
29	Winchcombe School	99	44.0	+1.2	59.6%	39.4%	2.0%	37.6
30	Barnwood Park School	167	43.4	—	59.9%	38.9%	8.4%	34.4
31	The Dean Academy	117	43.1	0.0	56.4%	34.2%	10.3%	33.8
32	Newent Community School and Sixth Form Centre	169	42.4	+0.9	55.0%	36.1%	3.6%	28.0
33	Sir William Romney's School	98	42.4	−1.7	61.2%	30.6%	4.1%	34.5
34	Wyedean School and Sixth Form Centre	159	41.9	−3.9	52.2%	37.7%	10.7%	24.8
35	Gloucester Academy	121	41.5	+4.9	48.8%	36.4%	9.1%	34.8
36	Archway School	150	41.4	−1.9	54.0%	25.3%	4.7%	36.7
37	SGS Berkeley Green UTC	103	41.0	−0.2	61.2%	35.9%	2.9%	34.1
38	St Peter's Catholic High School and Sixth Form CentreRoman Catholic	236	40.9	−3.2	55.5%	33.5%	3.8%	32.4
39	Tewkesbury Academy	214	38.4	−4.7	54.2%	26.6%	4.7%	29.4
40	All Saints' Academy, CheltenhamChurch of England	174	37.7	−0.8	47.7%	28.2%	6.9%	27.2
41	SGS Forest High School	61	32.9	−2.7	39.3%	18.0%	3.3%	33.5
	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.

Gloucestershire against the rest of the South West

Grade 5+ in English and maths, 2026

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole57.9%
Torbay55.0%
Gloucestershire53.8%
Bath and North East Somerset53.2%
Plymouth50.9%
Devon46.6%
North Somerset46.1%
Swindon45.7%
Bristol, City of45.1%
Wiltshire44.7%
Cornwall44.4%
South Gloucestershire44.1%
Dorset41.9%
Somerset40.8%

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.