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Grade 5+ in English and maths, 2026
GCSE results 2026
Southampton GCSE results 2026
Provisional 2025/26 results for 11 state secondary schools in Southampton, 2,487 pupils. Southampton ranks 144 of 151 councils for Attainment 8, which fell by 1.4 points on 2025.
Grade 5+ English & maths
37.0%
10.8 pts below England
Grade 7+ English & maths
9.3%
5.4 pts below England
Attainment 8
41.7
5.9 points below England
Council rank
144 / 151
By average Attainment 8
Southampton at a glance
- Highest Attainment 8: Saint George Catholic Voluntary Aided College Southampton (57.8).
- Schools range from 29.1 to 57.8 on Attainment 8, a spread of 28.7 points, so the school you choose matters more than the council average.
- Disadvantaged pupils averaged 33.1, 14.8 points behind their classmates (a wider gap than England’s 13.8). They did best at St Anne's Catholic School (51.7).
- Most improved on 2025: Oasis Academy Lord's Hill, up 1.7 points to 38.7.
Every Southampton 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 | Saint George Catholic Voluntary Aided College SouthamptonRoman Catholic · Top 10% three years running | 200 | 57.8 | −2.2 | 81.0% | 66.5% | 25.0% | 50.3 |
| 2 | St Anne's Catholic SchoolGirls · Roman Catholic | 210 | 54.4 | −1.2 | 82.9% | 66.7% | 24.3% | 51.7 |
| 3 | Upper Shirley High School | 209 | 47.6 | +0.6 | 70.8% | 47.8% | 14.4% | 39.5 |
| 4 | Cantell School | 254 | 43.1 | −3.8 | 57.5% | 37.8% | 9.8% | 36.6 |
| 5 | Oasis Academy Sholing | 197 | 40.9 | −2.4 | 54.8% | 33.5% | 6.6% | 29.6 |
| 6 | Bitterne Park School | 365 | 40.6 | −2.5 | 54.0% | 32.9% | 4.4% | 30.1 |
| 7 | Oasis Academy Lord's Hill | 157 | 38.7 | +1.7 | 57.3% | 35.7% | 14.6% | 29.3 |
| 8 | Oasis Academy Mayfield | 166 | 38.3 | +1.3 | 54.8% | 29.5% | 2.4% | 34.8 |
| 9 | Woodlands Community College | 180 | 31.6 | −3.9 | 34.4% | 16.1% | 2.2% | 26.1 |
| 10 | Weston Secondary School | 153 | 30.3 | −0.8 | 32.7% | 19.6% | 2.0% | 28.1 |
| 11 | Redbridge Community School | 218 | 29.1 | −3.1 | 36.7% | 18.3% | 0.5% | 24.7 |
| 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.
Southampton against the rest of the South East
- Wokingham64.1%
- Buckinghamshire61.6%
- Slough58.9%
- Surrey56.4%
- Reading55.6%
- West Berkshire52.2%
- Brighton and Hove50.1%
- Windsor and Maidenhead49.7%
- Kent49.3%
- Bracknell Forest48.9%
- West Sussex48.4%
- Oxfordshire47.9%
- Hampshire46.0%
- East Sussex45.5%
- Milton Keynes45.4%
- Medway43.6%
- Southampton37.0%
- Portsmouth35.8%
- Isle of Wight35.1%
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.