GCSE results 2026

Stoke-on-Trent GCSE results 2026

Provisional 2025/26 results for 14 state secondary schools in Stoke-on-Trent, 2,831 pupils. Stoke-on-Trent ranks 148 of 151 councils for Attainment 8, which fell by 0.1 points on 2025.

Grade 5+ English & maths

34.4%

13.4 pts below England

Grade 7+ English & maths

7.6%

7.1 pts below England

Attainment 8

40.8

6.8 points below England

Council rank

148 / 151

By average Attainment 8

Stoke-on-Trent at a glance

Highest Attainment 8: St Joseph's College (63.6); highest non-selective: Co-op Academy Stoke-On-Trent (46.2).
Schools range from 33.0 to 63.6 on Attainment 8, a spread of 30.6 points, so the school you choose matters more than the council average.
Disadvantaged pupils averaged 33.9, 11.3 points behind their classmates (a smaller gap than England’s 13.8). They did best at St Joseph's College (60.5).
Stoke-on-Trent has 1 grammar school, which lift the council average. Compare the non-selective schools with each other. Grammar schools in Stoke-on-Trent.
Most improved on 2025: Co-op Academy Stoke-On-Trent, up 3.5 points to 46.2.

Every Stoke-on-Trent 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	St Joseph's CollegeGrammar · Roman Catholic	150	63.6	+1.2	98.7%	84.0%	27.3%	60.5
2	Co-op Academy Stoke-On-Trent	203	46.2	+3.5	55.7%	37.4%	13.3%	44.6
3	Trentham Academy	149	46.0	−0.6	65.1%	38.9%	6.7%	38.2
4	Thistley Hough Academy	206	43.7	−4.2	63.6%	46.1%	14.1%	38.6
5	St Thomas More Catholic AcademyRoman Catholic	198	43.6	+0.2	58.6%	37.4%	9.1%	38.5
6	Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews Academy	229	42.3	+1.3	59.8%	36.7%	7.9%	35.6
7	St Margaret Ward Catholic AcademyRoman Catholic	204	42.3	−0.7	58.3%	39.7%	9.3%	35.4
8	The Excel Academy	235	40.7	+3.2	64.7%	37.0%	4.3%	34.0
9	Ormiston Meridian Academy	190	40.6	+0.4	50.0%	29.5%	5.8%	34.1
10	Haywood Academy	203	35.4	−0.7	34.5%	19.7%	3.4%	29.4
11	Ormiston Horizon Academy	193	34.5	−2.8	48.2%	27.5%	2.1%	28.4
12	St Peter's CofE AcademyChurch of England	199	34.2	−0.2	40.7%	21.6%	3.0%	27.3
13	Discovery Academy	289	33.5	−3.9	39.8%	22.1%	4.5%	28.4
14	Birches Head Academy	183	33.0	+1.7	42.1%	19.7%	0.5%	29.9
	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.

Stoke-on-Trent against the rest of the West Midlands

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.