GCSE results 2026

Wolverhampton GCSE results 2026

Provisional 2025/26 results for 20 state secondary schools in Wolverhampton, 3,559 pupils. Wolverhampton ranks 89 of 151 councils for Attainment 8, which rose by 0.6 points on 2025.

Grade 5+ English & maths

44.3%

3.5 pts below England

Grade 7+ English & maths

13.4%

1.3 pts below England

Attainment 8

46.4

1.2 points below England

Council rank

89 / 151

By average Attainment 8

Wolverhampton at a glance

Highest Attainment 8: Wolverhampton Girls' High School (75.1); highest non-selective: Thomas Telford University Technical College (53.5).
Schools range from 34.0 to 75.1 on Attainment 8, a spread of 41.1 points, so the school you choose matters more than the council average.
Disadvantaged pupils averaged 40.0, 12.5 points behind their classmates (a smaller gap than England’s 13.8). They did best at Wolverhampton Girls' High School (71.8).
Wolverhampton has 1 grammar school, which lift the council average. Compare the non-selective schools with each other. Grammar schools in Wolverhampton.
Most improved on 2025: Smestow Academy, up 6.0 points to 48.6.

Every Wolverhampton 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	Wolverhampton Girls' High SchoolGrammar · Girls	176	75.1	−0.3	98.9%	97.7%	68.8%	71.8
2	Thomas Telford University Technical College	161	53.5	−0.2	81.4%	61.5%	20.5%	48.7
3	St Edmund's Catholic AcademyRoman Catholic	197	51.2	+1.0	74.1%	50.8%	9.6%	46.4
4	Heath Park	191	51.1	+1.8	69.1%	51.3%	15.2%	48.4
5	Highfields School	279	50.0	−1.7	77.4%	55.9%	20.1%	38.3
6	Smestow Academy	113	48.6	+6.0	61.9%	47.8%	15.0%	45.6
7	St Peter's Collegiate AcademyChurch of England	222	48.2	+3.4	72.1%	46.4%	13.5%	42.2
8	The Khalsa Academy Wolverhampton	126	47.8	−1.6	71.4%	48.4%	12.7%	43.4
9	Coppice Performing Arts School	171	46.7	+2.9	62.6%	43.9%	9.9%	39.4
10	Wednesfield Academy	187	46.5	+1.6	65.8%	49.2%	12.3%	43.0
11	The Royal School, Wolverhampton	113	45.7	+2.4	64.6%	46.0%	13.3%	39.1
12	Aldersley High School	208	45.4	+1.9	58.7%	41.3%	12.5%	36.9
13	Moseley Park	183	45.4	+0.6	59.0%	41.0%	3.8%	41.7
14	Our Lady and St Chad Catholic AcademyRoman Catholic	204	41.1	+0.7	42.2%	24.5%	3.9%	36.7
15	Colton Hills Community School	178	40.5	+1.3	55.1%	39.9%	10.7%	37.4
16	Ormiston SWB Academy	194	40.3	−1.7	56.2%	32.5%	4.6%	36.8
17	Moreton School	207	37.9	−1.4	49.3%	30.4%	5.8%	31.4
18	Ormiston NEW Academy	166	37.8	+2.1	46.4%	26.5%	8.4%	35.2
19	St Matthias School	159	36.9	−3.7	47.2%	23.9%	2.5%	32.2
20	St Regis Church of England AcademyChurch of England	124	34.0	−2.5	36.3%	20.2%	2.4%	32.1
	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.

Wolverhampton 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.