Sunderland secondary schools with highest & lowest GCSE English & maths grades according to latest data

The Department for Education has recently published its new performance data for youngsters who sat their GCSEs this year (2026).

The data shows 44.7% of Sunderland pupils achieved a Grade 5 or above (traditional high grade C) in English and maths which is below the England school average of 46.3%.

A number of city schools attained a higher average than the national average, but there are also a significant number below.

It is important to note these are raw outcomes which do not factor in the different starting points of pupils in all the city’s secondary schools and the different individual parameters in which schools operate.

Progress 8 scores are normally viewed as the most important attainment benchmark on which a secondary school’s performance is judged as it looks at how much progress teachers have made with pupils since joining them in Year 7, rather than just raw outcomes.

Progress 8 scores could not be calculated for this year’s 2026 cohort of students as, due to Covid, this group of pupils did not sit their Year 6 tests which are used to track progress against.

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Check out the following results to see how your son or daughter’s school performed.

Special schools have not been included in this list.