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Academic year 2025/26

Key stage 4 performance

GCSE results of pupils at the end of KS4 attending state-funded schools in England at national & LA level. This release includes pupil characteristic breakdowns

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• Published: 15 October 2026

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• Headline attainment measures by ethnic minor pupil characteristic, 2018/19 to 2025/26, state-funded schools, England

  Attainment by ethnic minor: Average Attainment 8 score, %of pupils achieving grades 5 or above in English and mathematics GCSEs

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• Headline attainment data by ethnicity and FSM

  Attainment data by ethnicity and free school meal eligibility

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• Featured table - Headline attainment data by region and LA

  Headline attainment data by region and LA

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• LA Map - A8

  Map-Average A8 by LA

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• Headline measures for regions and LAs - SEN

  Regional and LA breakdown of headline measures for SEN description, State-funded schools, 2025/26

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• Headline attainment data by school type, 2018/19 to 2025/26, England

  Average Attainment 8 score of all pupils, % of pupils achieving grades 5 or above in English and mathematics GCSEs

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• Headline measures for regions and LAs - SEN

  Regional and LA breakdown of headline measures for SEN description, State-funded schools, 2025/26

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• Featured table - White disadvantaged pupils by sex - 2025/26

  'All state-funded pupil characteristics and geography data' for All White, Disadvantaged pupils by sex at national, regional and local authority level for 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 accountability metrics in all state-funded schools to local authority level and all pupil characteristics

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  Local authority, National, Regional

  National, regional and local authority level KS4 performance measures in state-funded schools by pupil characteristics like ethnicity, disadvantage status, SEN provision, first language, prior attainment, mobility and young carer since 2018/19.

  • API data set ID: b3e19901-5d2b-b676-bb4c-e60937d74725
  • Number of rows: 387,702
  • Indicators:
    • Average Attainment 8 score
    • Average Progress 8 score
    • Average Attainment 8 score for EBacc element
  • Filters:
    • Sex
    • Ethnicity
    • Free school meals status
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 institution level - Performance

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  School

  School level KS4 performance data at individual school level, including Attainment 8, English and Maths percentage achieving Grades 5, broken down by sex, disadvantage status, first language, prior attainment and mobility since 2023/24.

  • API data set ID: 19e39901-a96c-be76-b9c2-6af54ae076d2
  • Number of rows: 137,975
  • Indicators:
    • Average Attainment 8 score
    • Average Progress 8 score
    • Average Attainment 8 score for EBacc element
  • Filters:
    • Sex
    • Disadvantaged status
    • First language
  • Time period: 2023/24 to 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 accountability metrics by school type and pupil characteristics at national level

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  National

  National level KS4 performance measures by school type and by pupil characteristics since 2018/19.

  • API data set ID: 18e39901-7fe3-8372-8b2b-33f7ae1e1d12
  • Number of rows: 11,285
  • Indicators:
    • Average Attainment 8 score
    • Average Attainment 8 score for EBacc element
    • Average Attainment 8 score for English element
  • Filters:
    • School type
    • Sex
    • Ethnicity
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 accountability metrics by school type to local authority level

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  Local authority, National, Regional

  National, regional and local authority level KS4 performance measures by school type since 2018/19.

  • API data set ID: 18e39901-b47f-4a75-9c4b-d529e590d916
  • Number of rows: 11,660
  • Indicators:
    • Average Attainment 8 score
    • Average Progress 8 score
    • Average Attainment 8 score for EBacc element
  • Filters:
    • School type
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 subject entries and achievements by pupils at national level by characteristics (discounted)

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  National

  National level pupil entries and achievements across GCSE and vocational subjects in state-funded schools by pupil characteristics such as ethnicity and disadvantage status since 2018/19. Discounting is applied.

  • API data set ID: 19e39901-93ff-4d76-950f-4689d6c361fe
  • Number of rows: 355,700
  • Indicators:
    • Percentage of pupils achieving the grade
    • Number of pupils achieving the grade
  • Filters:
    • Subject
    • Grade
    • Sex
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 subject entries and achievements by pupils to local authority level (discounted)

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  Local authority, National, Regional

  National, regional and local authority level pupil entries and achievements across GCSE and vocational subjects in state-funded schools for pupils at the end of KS4 since 2018/19. Discounting is applied.

  • API data set ID: 1ae39901-c621-a274-a84b-393929221b9f
  • Number of rows: 964,862
  • Indicators:
    • Percentage of pupils achieving the grade
    • Number of pupils achieving the grade
  • Filters:
    • Subject
    • Grade
    • Sex
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 subject entries and achievements by pupils at national level by school type (discounted)

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  National

  National level pupil entries and achievements across GCSE and vocational subjects by establishment type for pupils at the end of KS4 since 2018/19. Discounting is applied.

  • API data set ID: 1ae39901-7d3f-d373-a257-1b63c3bc7c7d
  • Number of rows: 127,897
  • Indicators:
    • Number of pupils achieving the grade
    • Percentage of pupils achieving the grade
  • Filters:
    • Subject
    • Grade
    • School type
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 subject entries and grades at national level (undiscounted)

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  National

  National level number of entries achieving each grade across GCSE and Vocational subjects in all schools for pupils at the end of KS4 in each year since 2018/19. Discounting is not applied.

  • API data set ID: 19e39901-2ada-4d77-9406-415502a508cc
  • Number of rows: 10,526
  • Indicators:
    • Number of entries at grade
  • Filters:
    • Subject
    • Grade
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 subject entries and grades at national level since 2010 (discounted)

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  National

  National level percentage of GCSE (and equivalent for unreformed GCSEs) entries achieving each grade across subjects in all schools for pupils at the end of KS4 in each year since 2010/11. Discounting is applied.

  • API data set ID: 1ae39901-dc7f-3870-b08a-d398a5ecd5c4
  • Number of rows: 40,032
  • Indicators:
    • Number of entries in the subject
    • Percentage of entries achieving the grade
  • Filters:
    • Subject
    • Grade
    • Sex
  • Time period: 2009/10 to 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 accountability metrics by disadvantaged status at local authority district level

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  Local authority district, National, Regional

  Pupil residency and school location based local authority district, regional and national level KS4 performance measures in state-funded schools by disadvantage status and free school meals status since 2018/19.

  • API data set ID: 18e39901-e1a0-3b70-aeae-b3fe542fcf1c
  • Number of rows: 25,534
  • Indicators:
    • Average Attainment 8 score
    • Average Progress 8 score
    • Average Attainment 8 score for EBacc element
  • Filters:
    • Basis for the geographic level
    • Disadvantaged status
    • Free school meals status
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 accountability metrics at parliamentary constituency level

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  National, Parliamentary constituency

  Pupil residency and school location based parliamentary constituency and national level KS4 performance measures in state-funded schools since 2018/19.

  • API data set ID: 19e39901-9533-5f75-aafe-c98bb510cb28
  • Number of rows: 8,604
  • Indicators:
    • Average Attainment 8 score
    • Average Progress 8 score
    • Average Attainment 8 score for EBacc element
  • Filters:
    • Basis for the geographic level
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 accountability metrics by rurality and IDACI of region

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  National, Regional

  Pupil residency and school location based regional and national level KS4 performance measures in state-funded schools by rurality of region and regional level income deprivation affecting children index (IDACI) decile since 2018/19.

  • API data set ID: 19e39901-3093-c874-a688-9f9eeee6e840
  • Number of rows: 5,267
  • Indicators:
    • Average Attainment 8 score
    • Average Progress 8 score
    • Average Attainment 8 score for EBacc element
  • Filters:
    • Basis for the geographic level
    • Rurality
    • Indices of deprivation affecting children decile (IDACI)
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 accountability metrics in alternative provision to local authority level

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  Local authority, National, Regional

  National, regional and local authority level KS4 performance measures in alternative provision since 2018/19.

  • API data set ID: 18e39901-6f20-1676-bfb3-a581063b3a0a
  • Number of rows: 1,301
  • Indicators:
    • Average Attainment 8 score
    • Average Progress 8 score
    • Average Attainment 8 score for EBacc element
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 accountability metrics by SEN provision in LA maintained school and academies to local authority level

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  Local authority, National, Regional

  National, regional and local authority level KS4 performance measures broken down by special educational needs (SEN) in LA maintained schools and academies since 2018/19.

  • API data set ID: 01a135be-ad6c-74ba-873d-1ec469ec2d1f
  • Number of rows: 25,037
  • Indicators:
    • Average Attainment 8 score
    • Average Progress 8 score
    • Average Attainment 8 score for EBacc element
  • Filters:
    • School type
    • Special educational needs - provision
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 accountability metrics in academies by years open at national level

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  National

  National level KS4 performance measures in academies by the number of years the academies have been open in each year since 2018/19.

  • API data set ID: 18e39901-9dc2-d872-9121-5284f9af111e
  • Number of rows: 288
  • Indicators:
    • Average Attainment 8 score
    • Average Progress 8 score
    • Average Attainment 8 score for EBacc element
  • Filters:
    • School type
    • Number of years the academy has been open
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 accountability metrics in all state-funded schools by pupil characteristics and geography summary

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  Local authority, National, Regional

  National, regional and local authority level KS4 performance data to benchmark school and college performance tables data broken down by sex, disadvantage status, first language, prior attainment and mobility since 2018/19.

  • API data set ID: 19e39901-560d-f972-b6f3-dd085539c095
  • Number of rows: 19,899
  • Indicators:
    • Number of pupils at the end of KS4
    • Number of schools
    • Number of pupils achieving grades 5 or above in English and maths GCSEs
  • Filters:
    • Pupil characteristic
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 disadvantaged gap index

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  National

  Disadvantaged attainment gap index in state-funded schools since 2010/11.

  • API data set ID: 18e39901-f753-4d74-be23-064fce842619
  • Number of rows: 16
  • Indicators:
    • Disadvantaged attainment gap index
  • Time period: 2010/11 to 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 average grades in English Language and Mathematics

  National

  Average English language and maths grades in state-funded schools since 2018/19.

  • Number of rows: 16
  • Indicators:
    • Average GCSE grade
  • Filters:
    • Subject
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 institution level - Subject entries and grades (undiscounted)

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  School

  Subject entries and grades achieved in schools and colleges in the performance tables data for 2025/26. Discounting is not applied.

  • API data set ID: 1ae39901-b462-df76-b108-640a078d7944
  • Number of rows: 733,117
  • Indicators:
    • Number of entries at grade
    • Number of pupils at the end of KS4
  • Filters:
    • Subject
    • Grade
  • Time period: 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 subject entries by year of entry at national level (undiscounted)

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  National

  National level number of entries across GCSE and vocational subjects broken down by year of entry (penultimate or final year) in all schools for pupils at the end of KS4 since 2018/19. Discounting is not applied.

  • API data set ID: 1ae39901-a99d-e576-86d9-a376eff7f9af
  • Number of rows: 2,083
  • Indicators:
    • Number of entries taken by pupils at the end of KS4
    • Percentage of entries taken by pupils at the end of KS4
  • Filters:
    • Subject
    • Academic year the qualification was awarded
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2025/26

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• Key stage 4 institution level - Institution information

  School

  Reference information on individual schools since 2023/24.

  • Number of rows: 17,264
  • Indicators:
    • Address
    • Admission policy
    • Age range
  • Time period: 2023/24 to 2025/26

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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

This data covers the performance of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 (KS4) in 2025/26. The data covers the main headline measures of:

• Attainment 8
• Percentage of pupils achieving 9-5 in English and maths

It is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 due to gaps in the baseline caused by COVID-19 disruption.

The data also covers numerous additional measures, depending on the data file.

The publication methodology should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality, as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data. 

Coverage

This data covers the GCSE results of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 (KS4) in 2025/26. The data is split by establishment type, as well as some data being split by pupil characteristics such as disadvantage status, free school meal status, special educational needs status and ethnicity. The data covers statistics at national, regional, local authority, local authority district, parliamentary constituency and institution level.

File formats and conventions

The data is rounded to either 1 or 2 decimal places, depending on which measure you are looking at. Some of the raw data totals go up to 3 decimal places. No suppression has been applied above school level.

Discounted and Undiscounted

In discounted subject data, where a pupil has more than one qualification in the same subject with the same discount code, only the qualification taken first counts. Undiscounted subject data counts all entries into the same subject by a pupil.

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Attainment statistics team

Email: Attainment.STATISTICS@education.gov.uk
Contact name: Liam Hamilton

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