15 worst performing secondary schools in Lancashire based on new final GCSE results

The revised results for the latest cohort of GCSE students (2025) follows on from the provisional results published in October which now include adjusted scores following re-marks and appeals.

A number of the county’s secondary schools and the local authority as a whole have seen their average Attainment 8 scores increase since the provisional results.

Attainment 8 looks at how pupils have performed in up to eight Government stipulated GCSE subjects with each grade being given a value between one to nine- maths and English are given double weighting to reflect the significance of these core subjects.

A school’s Attainment 8 score is the average total achieved by pupils in that year’s GCSE cohort of students.

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.

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 below the 15 secondary schools in Lancashire* with the lowest final Attainment 8 scores.

This list covers schools under Lancashire County Council, Blackpool Council and Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council but not special and independent schools.