GCSE results 2026

Southwark GCSE results 2026

Provisional 2025/26 results for 20 state secondary schools in Southwark, 3,134 pupils. Southwark ranks 21 of 151 councils for Attainment 8, which fell by 0.6 points on 2025.

Grade 5+ English & maths

55.8%

8.0 pts above England

Grade 7+ English & maths

20.1%

5.4 pts above England

Attainment 8

52.3

4.7 points above England

Council rank

21 / 151

By average Attainment 8

Southwark at a glance

Highest Attainment 8: The Charter School North Dulwich (62.5).
Schools range from 32.6 to 62.5 on Attainment 8, a spread of 29.9 points, so the school you choose matters more than the council average.
Disadvantaged pupils averaged 47.0, 10.4 points behind their classmates (a smaller gap than England’s 13.8). They did best at The St Thomas the Apostle College (61.6).
Most improved on 2025: Ark All Saints Academy, up 6.9 points to 52.1.

Every Southwark 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 Charter School North DulwichTop 10% three years running	179	62.5	−2.5	87.2%	72.1%	38.0%	47.2
2	The St Thomas the Apostle CollegeBoys · Roman Catholic · Top 10% three years running	157	61.8	+0.1	87.3%	73.9%	30.6%	61.6
3	St Michael's Catholic CollegeCatholic	148	58.7	+0.7	88.5%	66.2%	20.9%	55.5
4	Sacred Heart Catholic SchoolRoman Catholic · Top 10% three years running	137	57.4	−0.6	86.9%	70.1%	20.4%	55.3
5	Kingsdale Foundation SchoolTop 10% three years running	431	56.9	−3.0	80.0%	62.4%	27.1%	51.0
6	The Charter School East Dulwich	174	55.3	−1.0	79.9%	60.3%	25.3%	38.7
7	Harris Academy BermondseyGirls	168	54.2	−0.4	70.8%	56.5%	20.8%	49.9
8	Harris Boys' Academy East DulwichBoys	137	54.0	−1.5	78.1%	56.9%	20.4%	49.5
9	Ark All Saints AcademyChurch of England	113	52.1	+6.9	73.5%	55.8%	20.4%	48.9
10	Bacon's CollegeChurch of England	174	51.8	+2.4	75.9%	55.2%	19.0%	48.7
11	Harris Girls' Academy East DulwichGirls	136	51.3	−3.0	73.5%	55.1%	21.3%	46.8
12	Haberdashers' Borough Academy	167	49.2	+1.4	72.5%	52.7%	16.2%	45.5
13	City of London Academy (Southwark)	235	49.0	−3.9	71.9%	53.6%	19.1%	46.7
14	St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England SchoolGirls · Church of England	115	48.4	−4.3	62.6%	44.3%	8.7%	44.9
15	Ark Globe Academy	160	46.4	−2.0	69.4%	42.5%	11.3%	44.7
16	Notre Dame Catholic Girls' SchoolGirls · Roman Catholic	124	44.4	+1.6	58.9%	32.3%	8.9%	42.2
17	Ark Walworth Academy	133	44.0	+0.7	69.9%	49.6%	12.0%	42.7
18	The Charter School Bermondsey	84	43.9	+3.0	65.5%	44.0%	7.1%	40.8
19	Harris Academy Peckham	101	40.0	+0.7	53.5%	35.6%	7.9%	40.0
20	South Bank University Academy	61	32.6	−8.9	42.6%	26.2%	6.6%	32.0
	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.

Southwark against the rest of London

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.