GCSE results 2026

Liverpool GCSE results 2026

Provisional 2025/26 results for 31 state secondary schools in Liverpool, 5,225 pupils. Liverpool ranks 137 of 151 councils for Attainment 8, which fell by 0.1 points on 2025.

Grade 5+ English & maths

39.1%

8.7 pts below England

Grade 7+ English & maths

12.5%

2.2 pts below England

Attainment 8

43.4

4.2 points below England

Council rank

137 / 151

By average Attainment 8

Liverpool at a glance

Highest Attainment 8: The Blue Coat School (78.6); highest non-selective: St Edward's College (53.3).
Schools range from 30.0 to 78.6 on Attainment 8, a spread of 48.6 points, so the school you choose matters more than the council average.
Disadvantaged pupils averaged 34.7, 14.6 points behind their classmates (a wider gap than England’s 13.8). They did best at The Blue Coat School (71.7).
Liverpool has 1 grammar school, which lift the council average. Compare the non-selective schools with each other. Grammar schools in Liverpool.
Most improved on 2025: The Studio School Liverpool, up 6.7 points to 46.1.

Every Liverpool 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	The Blue Coat SchoolGrammar	178	78.6	−0.9	100.0%	98.3%	82.6%	71.7
2	King David High SchoolPartially selective · Jewish	115	55.4	+1.1	87.8%	68.7%	20.0%	45.6
3	St Edward's CollegeRoman Catholic	177	53.3	+1.7	77.4%	54.2%	15.8%	44.6
4	The Belvedere AcademyGirls	151	52.4	−1.4	72.8%	55.0%	13.2%	43.8
5	Liverpool CollegeChurch of England	145	50.6	−4.5	74.5%	56.6%	16.6%	37.8
6	North Liverpool Academy	221	50.5	+4.9	71.9%	48.0%	14.9%	45.7
7	St Margaret's Church of England AcademyBoys · Church of England	152	48.7	−0.9	72.4%	53.3%	15.1%	40.5
8	Bellerive FCJ Catholic CollegeGirls · Roman Catholic	141	47.8	+0.5	63.1%	42.6%	14.2%	44.2
9	The Studio School Liverpool	72	46.1	+6.7	69.4%	48.6%	11.1%	37.8
10	Calderstones School	266	45.9	−0.2	60.9%	42.1%	12.0%	32.0
11	St Hilda's Church of England High SchoolChurch of England	170	44.6	−7.2	65.3%	44.1%	10.0%	35.9
12	Liverpool Life Sciences UTC	128	43.6	−2.7	59.4%	39.1%	13.3%	37.1
13	Cardinal Heenan Catholic High SchoolBoys · Roman Catholic	208	42.7	+1.8	50.5%	35.6%	13.5%	32.0
14	St Julie's Catholic High SchoolGirls · Roman Catholic	165	42.2	−4.7	49.1%	37.0%	9.7%	31.1
15	Holly Lodge Girls' CollegeGirls	163	42.1	−5.1	57.7%	45.4%	12.9%	34.1
16	St John Bosco Arts CollegeGirls · Roman Catholic	167	40.1	+0.7	50.9%	26.3%	3.6%	37.3
17	Archbishop Beck Catholic CollegeRoman Catholic	168	39.9	−1.6	58.9%	33.9%	8.9%	32.2
18	Broughton Hall Catholic High SchoolGirls · Roman Catholic	200	39.4	+0.2	51.5%	31.0%	7.5%	27.7
19	Gateacre School	213	39.4	—	46.9%	31.5%	4.7%	33.5
20	LIPA School	53	38.0	—	45.3%	24.5%	5.7%	31.0
21	St Francis Xavier's Catholic AcademyBoys · Roman Catholic	184	37.8	+1.1	55.4%	32.1%	7.1%	31.8
22	West Derby SchoolBoys	170	37.5	−4.5	50.6%	31.8%	9.4%	31.9
23	Dixons Broadgreen Academy	182	37.0	+2.6	42.9%	26.9%	6.0%	32.1
24	King's Leadership Academy, Liverpool	158	36.3	+1.8	47.5%	29.7%	6.3%	31.0
25	Dixons Fazakerley Academy	157	35.9	+2.5	40.8%	24.8%	7.6%	30.6
26	Childwall Sports & Science Academy	177	35.2	−1.0	44.6%	21.5%	4.0%	31.3
27	The Academy of St NicholasRoman Catholic/Church of England	118	35.2	+5.8	44.9%	21.2%	3.4%	29.8
28	Dixons Croxteth Academy	51	35.0	+3.4	39.2%	25.5%	7.8%	26.6
29	Alsop High School	255	33.1	+4.9	32.9%	18.0%	2.4%	30.6
30	The Academy of St Francis of AssisiChurch of England/Roman Catholic	165	32.8	−3.0	40.6%	23.0%	3.0%	29.3
31	Notre Dame Catholic AcademyRoman Catholic	174	30.0	−1.0	30.5%	15.5%	2.3%	25.2
	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.

Liverpool 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.