How our schools fared in the GCSEs

The latest secondary school tables have revealed which schools in and around Scarborough did best with their GCSEs results: see how each performed on

The latest secondary school tables have revealed which schools in and around Scarborough did best in their GCSEs.

The main measure by which schools are judged is Progress 8, a way to show how much progress pupils made between the end of key stage 2 and the end of key stage 4 in eight GCSE subjects.

Ryedale School was the best performing school in the area and third in the county with a ‘well above average’ Progress 8. It was followed by Scarborough’s Scalby School, the best in the town in terms of progress, which scored an ‘above average’ 0.45.

Scalby’s percentage of pupils who achieved Grade 5 or above in the 2017 reformed English and maths GCSEs was also high as it stood at 58% – the national average is 43.3% – and its attainment 8 score, which shows how well pupils have performed in up to eight qualifications, was 49.7, 1.2 points higher than the average for North Yorkshire. St Augustine’s came in next with a 0.29 Progress 8 (still classed as above average), 46% of pupils achieving a Grade 5 or higher pass in English and maths and an attainment 8 score of 48.8.

Achieving less successful results were Graham School and George Pindar, who both scored below average in the Progress 8 category, and Ebor Academy Filey who with its -0.52 score is considered to be ‘well below average’. However, the Department for Education points out that a negative progress score doesn’t mean pupils made no progress, rather it means they made less progress than other pupils across England with similar results at the end of key stage 2. In those schools, only one third of pupils gained a Grade 5 or above in English and maths and their respective attainment scores were 39.1, 35.8 and 37.3. In Ryedale, Norton College, Malton School and Lady Lumley’s School all achieved an average Progress 8, as did Caedmon College in Whitby with its score of 0.