The statistics in this release are based on the grades received by pupils as announced on 21 August 2025. The exam grades have been matched to pupils to enable pupil level analyses.
Breakdowns of the grades achieved in summer 2025 were also published on results day by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ ) (opens in new tab) and Ofqual (opens in new tab). Those statistics were at exam entry level for those age 16, whereas the statistics in this release are at pupil level for those at the end of Key Stage 4.
About this statistical release
This release summarises GCSE entries and grades awarded to pupils at the end of KS4 in summer 2025. Figures are published at national, regional, and local authority level with some lower-level breakdowns such as local authority district and parliamentary constituency. Information relating to school-level data, covering a similar summary of attainment measures and pupil breakdowns, can be found on the performance tables (opens in new tab) website.
The KS4 statistics reported in this release have been affected by the following factors:
- Any results achieved between January 2020 and August 2021 are not included in the calculations.
- The ongoing uneven impacts of the pandemic on different schools/colleges and pupils.
The 2024/25 KS4 school and college checking exercises ran in June 2025 and Autumn 2025. This release is based on provisional data, meaning that any approved result amendments that schools may request during the Autumn checking exercise will not have been applied.
Where time series data is presented it, final data is used for all historic years except 2019/20 and 2020/21 when only one release of data was published. Final data includes small amounts of pupils' exam results from the winter series of exams as well as any late changes from schools.
Feedback
We welcome feedback on any aspect of this document at Attainment.STATISTICS@education.gov.uk. We are particularly interested in user views on the data tables that accompany this release, as well as the new Application Programming Interface (API).