The secondary schools with highest & lowest GCSE English & maths grades according to new final results

This month (February) the Department for Education has published its new and final performance data for youngsters who sat their GCSEs this year (2025).

The data now includes new grades following re-marks and appeals and a number of Sunderland schools and the local authority as a whole has seen the percentage of pupils achieving a level 5 or more in GCSE English and maths increase.

The most recently published data from the Department for Education shows for the 2025 cohort of GCSE students , 41.5% of Sunderland pupils achieved a Grade 5 or above (traditional high grade C) in English and maths which is below the England state-funded school average of 45.4%.

Eight of the city’s school saw a higher percentage of children attain a grade 5 or above in English and maths than the national average, whilst ten schools were below the national average.

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.

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Progress 8 scores could not be calculated for this year’s 2025 cohort of students as, due to Covid, this group of pupils did not sit their Year 6 tests.

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

Special schools have not been included in this list.