GCSE results 2026

South Gloucestershire GCSE results 2026

Provisional 2025/26 results for 16 state secondary schools in South Gloucestershire, 2,778 pupils. South Gloucestershire ranks 86 of 151 councils for Attainment 8, which fell by 0.2 points on 2025.

Grade 5+ English & maths

44.1%

3.7 pts below England

Grade 7+ English & maths

11.7%

3.0 pts below England

Attainment 8

46.5

1.1 points below England

Council rank

86 / 151

By average Attainment 8

South Gloucestershire at a glance

Highest Attainment 8: Yate Academy (55.1).
Schools range from 25.4 to 55.1 on Attainment 8, a spread of 29.7 points, so the school you choose matters more than the council average.
Disadvantaged pupils averaged 33.7, 16.0 points behind their classmates (a wider gap than England’s 13.8). They did best at John Cabot Academy (42.0).
Most improved on 2025: Brimsham Green School, up 3.4 points to 48.3.

Every South 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	Yate Academy	141	55.1	+0.3	75.2%	58.2%	18.4%	40.6
2	Bradley Stoke Community School	177	52.3	+1.7	75.1%	57.6%	15.3%	36.9
3	The Castle School	252	52.0	−0.4	72.2%	50.8%	18.3%	35.6
4	Winterbourne Academy	292	50.6	−1.4	74.0%	52.1%	14.4%	35.2
5	Downend School	239	48.7	−2.3	73.2%	47.7%	15.1%	33.7
6	John Cabot Academy	158	48.6	−3.5	67.1%	44.9%	13.3%	42.0
7	Brimsham Green School	151	48.3	+3.4	69.5%	51.0%	15.2%	33.9
8	Abbeywood Community School	206	47.8	+1.8	64.6%	45.6%	13.1%	32.4
9	Hanham Woods Academy	159	44.6	+0.5	63.5%	44.0%	11.3%	34.3
10	Sir Bernard Lovell Academy	202	44.6	+0.1	62.9%	38.1%	7.4%	32.6
11	Marlwood School	109	43.3	+0.1	67.0%	40.4%	9.2%	36.2
12	Chipping Sodbury School	142	43.0	−0.7	59.2%	38.7%	4.9%	34.4
13	Mangotsfield School	197	40.3	−1.0	56.3%	36.5%	5.6%	29.7
14	King's Oak Academy	126	40.2	−1.8	52.4%	27.8%	3.2%	32.2
15	Patchway Community School	140	39.9	+2.9	47.9%	29.3%	6.4%	31.1
16	Digitech Studio School	87	25.4	−5.8	36.8%	13.8%	4.6%	18.5
	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.

South 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.