How do I find school performance tables?

The Department for Education's "Compare school and college performance" service shows official performance measures for every school and college in England, such as Progress 8, Attainment 8, key stage 2 results, absence and finances.

Search by name or postcode. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland do not publish league tables in the same way. Ofsted inspection reports are a separate official source.

Official sources: Compare school and college performance · Ofsted reports

The latest figure

The newest value is at Department for Education (DfE). More on it: Pupils in schools in England.

When is the next figure out?

Annual, usually early June, from the January school census (4 June 2026 for 2025/26). The DfE public statistics API needs a POST query with the national 'Total' filter options; it is not an ONS time series, so the site cannot read it automatically

Every official release due in the next two weeks is on the release calendar.

Terms used in this answer

• Attainment 8
  A measure of GCSE-level results in England, adding up a pupil's points across eight qualifications, with English and maths counted double.
• Progress 8
  A value-added measure for secondary schools in England, comparing pupils' GCSE-level results with those of pupils nationally who had similar results at age 11.
• Key stages
  The stages into which compulsory schooling in England is divided, from key stage 1 (ages 5 to 7) to key stage 4 (ages 14 to 16).
• English Baccalaureate (EBacc)
  A school performance measure in England showing how many pupils take GCSEs in English, maths, sciences, a language and history or geography.
• Headcount
  A count of individual people, each counted once regardless of how many hours they work or how many posts they hold.
• Administrative data
  Information collected by organisations while running a service, such as tax records, benefit claims or hospital activity, and then used to produce statistics.

Where the figures come from

• Scottish official statistics: Scottish Government, National Records of Scotland, Public Health Scotland and others
  Where to find official Scottish figures: GERS, Scottish GDP, NRS population and deaths, PHS waiting times, exam results and SFC forecasts.
• Explore education statistics (Department for Education)
  How to use DfE's Explore Education Statistics for pupil numbers, free school meals, teachers, GCSE and SATs results, exclusions, attendance and the API.

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