GCSE results 2026

West Northamptonshire GCSE results 2026

Provisional 2025/26 results for 22 state secondary schools in West Northamptonshire, 4,901 pupils. West Northamptonshire ranks 74 of 151 councils for Attainment 8, which rose by 1.3 points on 2025.

Grade 5+ English & maths

46.5%

1.3 pts below England

Grade 7+ English & maths

13.4%

1.3 pts below England

Attainment 8

47.0

0.6 points below England

Council rank

74 / 151

By average Attainment 8

West Northamptonshire at a glance

Highest Attainment 8: Northampton School for Girls (59.2).
Schools range from 36.1 to 59.2 on Attainment 8, a spread of 23.1 points, so the school you choose matters more than the council average.
Disadvantaged pupils averaged 36.3, 13.4 points behind their classmates (a smaller gap than England’s 13.8). They did best at Northampton School for Boys (51.8).
Most improved on 2025: Silverstone UTC, up 5.1 points to 36.2.

Every West Northamptonshire 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	Northampton School for GirlsGirls	272	59.2	+4.3	84.6%	66.5%	22.8%	49.6
2	Northampton School for BoysBoys · Top 10% three years running	227	59.0	+0.8	91.2%	74.0%	31.7%	51.8
3	Wootton Park School	180	54.7	+1.1	80.0%	68.9%	23.3%	42.0
4	Northampton AcademyChristian	327	53.3	+1.2	76.8%	61.8%	19.6%	47.2
5	Caroline Chisholm School	277	52.0	+1.6	72.9%	53.8%	24.5%	36.3
6	Sponne School	231	51.4	−0.6	81.4%	54.5%	13.4%	40.4
7	Chenderit School	173	50.2	+0.2	73.4%	53.8%	9.8%	37.0
8	Guilsborough Academy	226	46.6	0.0	66.8%	45.6%	11.9%	36.4
9	The Duston School	277	46.0	−4.0	63.9%	44.0%	14.1%	32.1
10	Elizabeth Woodville School	151	45.2	+0.3	62.9%	37.7%	10.6%	35.4
11	Weston Favell Academy	239	44.9	+3.1	62.8%	44.4%	11.3%	35.6
12	Campion School	219	44.8	−1.4	65.8%	45.7%	11.4%	34.5
13	Abbeyfield School	228	44.6	+0.6	62.3%	36.4%	8.8%	35.0
14	Malcolm Arnold AcademyChurch of England	231	44.4	+3.0	62.3%	45.0%	14.7%	30.6
15	Magdalen College School	227	44.2	0.0	64.3%	40.5%	5.7%	28.7
16	Kingsthorpe College	265	43.5	+3.9	59.6%	34.0%	10.6%	29.1
17	Moulton School and Science College	275	42.6	−3.5	61.5%	38.9%	7.3%	33.2
18	St Thomas Becket Catholic SchoolRoman Catholic	163	41.5	+2.8	52.8%	38.7%	11.7%	33.7
19	The Parker E-ACT Academy	193	40.1	+1.2	53.4%	32.6%	6.2%	33.8
20	Northampton International Academy	277	38.9	+2.5	52.0%	28.9%	5.1%	35.2
21	Silverstone UTC	110	36.2	+5.1	52.7%	34.5%	4.5%	31.4
22	DSLV E-ACT Academy	133	36.1	−1.1	51.1%	21.1%	3.0%	33.8
	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.

West Northamptonshire against the rest of the East Midlands

Grade 5+ in English and maths, 2026

Rutland49.8%
Nottinghamshire48.3%
Leicestershire47.0%
West Northamptonshire46.5%
Leicester46.1%
Derbyshire45.1%
Lincolnshire43.1%
Nottingham42.5%
North Northamptonshire41.8%
Derby39.3%

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.