GCSE results 2026

Oxfordshire GCSE results 2026

Provisional 2025/26 results for 41 state secondary schools in Oxfordshire, 7,174 pupils. Oxfordshire ranks 73 of 151 councils for Attainment 8, which fell by 0.3 points on 2025.

Grade 5+ English & maths

47.9%

0.1 pts above England

Grade 7+ English & maths

15.4%

0.7 pts above England

Attainment 8

47.0

0.6 points below England

Council rank

73 / 151

By average Attainment 8

Oxfordshire at a glance

Highest Attainment 8: Gillotts School (60.2).
Schools range from 1.4 to 60.2 on Attainment 8, a spread of 58.8 points, so the school you choose matters more than the council average.
Disadvantaged pupils averaged 31.5, 19.7 points behind their classmates (a wider gap than England’s 13.8). They did best at Gillotts School (48.2).
Most improved on 2025: Aureus School, up 6.3 points to 40.0.

Every Oxfordshire 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	Gillotts SchoolTop 10% three years running	197	60.2	−1.1	88.8%	74.1%	27.4%	48.2
2	The Swan SchoolTop 10% three years running	179	60.1	+4.7	83.8%	73.2%	30.7%	42.0
3	Didcot Girls' SchoolGirls · Top 10% three years running	261	59.6	+0.8	87.0%	71.3%	33.0%	41.7
4	The Cherwell SchoolTop 10% three years running	268	58.9	+0.6	78.0%	64.9%	34.0%	37.9
5	Wheatley Park School	178	55.8	+4.3	80.3%	62.4%	25.8%	40.4
6	Bartholomew School	214	55.0	−2.0	76.6%	61.2%	28.5%	32.3
7	Langtree School	120	54.0	−4.0	78.3%	63.3%	16.7%	41.3
8	The Marlborough Church of England SchoolChurch of England	176	52.5	−2.9	75.6%	60.8%	22.7%	34.4
9	St Birinus SchoolBoys	165	50.8	+2.6	73.3%	55.8%	20.0%	37.8
10	Burford School	243	50.7	−1.7	70.8%	48.6%	13.2%	34.1
11	Chipping Norton School	163	49.9	+0.6	72.4%	57.1%	18.4%	35.9
12	Blessed George Napier Catholic School and Sixth FormRoman Catholic	145	49.1	+0.6	65.5%	44.8%	12.4%	38.7
13	Wallingford School	216	48.9	−5.0	66.2%	49.5%	15.7%	35.0
14	Matthew Arnold School	202	48.6	−7.9	67.8%	46.0%	13.4%	30.7
15	North Oxfordshire Academy	169	47.7	+0.9	63.3%	49.1%	19.5%	36.1
16	Oxford Spires Academy	215	47.7	+1.4	71.6%	51.6%	16.3%	39.4
17	The Bicester School	181	47.3	−0.6	62.4%	45.9%	15.5%	32.9
18	Lord Williams's School	344	47.1	+0.9	72.7%	51.2%	10.8%	29.9
19	Cheney School	282	47.0	+1.0	62.8%	46.5%	16.7%	30.0
20	The Warriner School	271	46.8	+2.5	71.2%	50.2%	10.0%	29.1
21	Fitzharrys School	135	46.2	+0.2	65.9%	48.1%	15.6%	33.0
22	Whitelands Academy	115	45.5	−0.9	70.4%	48.7%	15.7%	28.4
23	Gosford Hill School	141	45.1	−0.2	61.0%	44.0%	16.3%	27.0
24	John Mason School	178	44.9	+0.4	64.6%	43.8%	11.8%	24.8
25	Futures Institute Banbury	48	44.5	+3.4	62.5%	47.9%	10.4%	36.6
26	Icknield Community College	158	44.3	−6.9	66.5%	46.2%	12.7%	19.5
27	The Cooper School	202	43.9	+2.2	59.9%	38.6%	8.4%	30.6
28	Wood Green School	210	43.6	−2.6	62.9%	44.3%	11.0%	32.1
29	King Alfred's	264	43.4	−2.0	63.3%	43.6%	10.2%	24.7
30	Faringdon Community College	254	43.3	−0.4	59.8%	37.0%	9.4%	29.8
31	The Henry Box School	178	41.6	−0.6	53.4%	37.6%	9.6%	25.2
32	Aureus School	91	40.0	+6.3	54.9%	31.9%	11.0%	29.0
33	Heyford Park School	57	39.7	0.0	56.1%	33.3%	5.3%	24.4
34	Maiden Erlegh Chiltern Edge	78	39.2	−5.1	51.3%	32.1%	7.7%	32.0
35	Larkmead School	146	39.0	−0.4	53.4%	29.5%	6.8%	26.8
36	Wykham Park	157	37.5	+2.7	52.2%	29.9%	5.1%	27.5
37	Greyfriars Catholic SchoolRoman Catholic	94	34.7	+0.7	45.7%	30.9%	7.4%	22.7
38	Carterton Community College	127	34.6	+0.8	42.5%	18.9%	3.9%	24.1
39	UTC Oxfordshire	102	33.1	+0.6	51.0%	21.6%	3.9%	27.2
40	The Oxford AcademyChurch of England	190	31.2	−2.4	34.2%	23.7%	2.6%	26.9
41	Europa School UK	60	1.4	+0.5	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	—
	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.

Oxfordshire against the rest of the South East

Grade 5+ in English and maths, 2026

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.