This year’s GCSE candidates have taken their first exams this week – with exams scheduled to run until Wednesday, June 25.
We have created a ranking of the best performing Birmingham secondaries based on the English and maths GCSE results.
Exam results in the core subjects of English and maths are one of the key measures of secondary school performance.
The data is also based on attainment 8 scores - The Attainment 8 score is the average measure of an individual student's progress across their 8 best performing subjects taken at GCSE level.
Let’s take a look:
9. King Edward VI Handsworth School
This is a selective Christian girls’ secondary school and sixth form in the Handsworth area. It was formerly rated ‘outstanding’ overall by Ofsted. In the 2023/24 school year, it had a ‘well above average’ Progress 8 score of 0.81. | Google
10. King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys
Its counterpart, a selective secondary school and sixth form for boys, came close behind. It is also in Handsworth, and was most recently rated ‘good’ by Ofsted. In the 2023/24 school year, it had a ‘well above average’ Progress 8 score of 0.78. | Google
11. Bishop Vesey's Grammar School
Bishop Vesey’s is a selective boys’ secondary school and sixth form in the Sutton Coldfield area, formerly rated ‘outstanding’ overall by Ofsted. In the 2023/24 school year, it had a Progress 8 score of 0.75 - making it ‘well above average’. | Google
12. King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls
Rounding out the list is another King Edward VI Academies Trust school, this one a girls’ secondary school and sixth form in the Harborne part of the city. It was formerly rated ‘good’ overall by Ofsted. In the 2023/24 school year, it too had a Progress 8 score of 0.75 - also ‘well above average’. | Google