GCSE results 2026

Plymouth GCSE results 2026

Provisional 2025/26 results for 19 state secondary schools in Plymouth, 2,793 pupils. Plymouth ranks 60 of 151 councils for Attainment 8, which rose by 0.9 points on 2025.

Grade 5+ English & maths

50.9%

3.1 pts above England

Grade 7+ English & maths

13.8%

0.9 pts below England

Attainment 8

47.9

0.3 points above England

Council rank

60 / 151

By average Attainment 8

Plymouth at a glance

Highest Attainment 8: Devonport High School for Girls (74.9); highest non-selective: Hele's School (52.4).
Schools range from 31.5 to 74.9 on Attainment 8, a spread of 43.4 points, so the school you choose matters more than the council average.
Disadvantaged pupils averaged 38.1, 13.7 points behind their classmates (a smaller gap than England’s 13.8). They did best at Devonport High School for Girls (76.9).
Plymouth has 3 grammar schools, which lift the council average. Compare the non-selective schools with each other. Grammar schools in Plymouth.
Most improved on 2025: Tor Bridge High, up 5.4 points to 45.8.

Every Plymouth 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	Devonport High School for GirlsGrammar · Girls	122	74.9	+1.1	99.2%	96.7%	70.5%	76.9
2	Plymouth High School for GirlsGrammar · Girls	110	65.7	+0.2	98.2%	91.8%	32.7%	62.3
3	Devonport High School for BoysGrammar · Boys	177	65.1	−4.2	98.3%	88.7%	36.7%	56.4
4	Hele's School	236	52.4	+1.7	83.5%	64.4%	16.1%	46.2
5	Plymstock School	259	51.0	+3.7	76.4%	54.8%	8.5%	44.1
6	Scott Medical and Healthcare College	57	47.2	+3.7	66.7%	45.6%	10.5%	37.7
7	Coombe Dean School	160	46.6	−2.6	68.8%	48.1%	8.8%	38.4
8	Plympton Academy	181	45.8	+2.7	70.2%	45.9%	10.5%	42.5
9	Tor Bridge High	169	45.8	+5.4	66.9%	48.5%	11.8%	36.9
10	Marine Academy Plymouth	141	45.6	+2.0	66.0%	46.8%	9.2%	38.8
11	Lipson Co-operative Academy	175	44.6	+1.1	63.4%	50.3%	7.4%	39.6
12	Notre Dame RC SchoolGirls · Roman Catholic	135	44.6	+1.3	60.7%	38.5%	7.4%	33.7
13	Eggbuckland Community College	169	44.5	+2.2	68.6%	46.2%	6.5%	36.0
14	Sir John Hunt Community Sports College	105	43.1	+3.3	51.4%	37.1%	5.7%	37.3
15	Stoke Damerel Community College	221	38.3	+2.4	46.6%	29.4%	4.5%	32.3
16	St Boniface's RC CollegeBoys · Roman Catholic	75	37.8	−1.2	57.3%	26.7%	4.0%	32.3
17	Millbay Academy	87	37.3	+0.4	41.4%	23.0%	8.0%	32.3
18	All Saints Church of England AcademyChurch of England	107	36.5	−4.9	56.1%	29.0%	3.7%	34.2
19	UTC Plymouth	107	31.5	−4.9	43.0%	24.3%	1.9%	26.8
	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.

Plymouth 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.