{"id":1160453,"date":"2026-08-21T02:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1160453\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T02:42:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:42:36","slug":"gcse-results-2026-how-good-were-grades-in-your-london-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1160453\/","title":{"rendered":"GCSE results 2026: How good were grades in your London area?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WEST<\/p>\n

Four London boroughs are in the top 10 local areas in England with the largest percentage of 2026 GCSE<\/a> entries receiving the highest grades.<\/p>\n

Some 43.4% of exam entries within Richmond upon Thames were awarded grade 7 or above, up from 43.2% in 2025, according to data published by Ofqual. It was the second best performing local authority in the country.<\/p>\n

It was followed by Sutton (43.0%) and Kingston upon Thames (42.5%) in third and fourth places nationally.<\/p>\n

Barnet made it into the top 10 with 37.4% of entries getting grade 7 or above.<\/p>\n

Scroll down for a full list of the ranking of London boroughs, and a separate list of how they rank nationally.<\/p>\n

The top performing local authority in the country was Cambridge with 53.5% of exam entries getting top grades, up from 50.3% in 2025.<\/p>\n

The local area in England with the lowest proportion of GCSE entries getting an 7 or above this year is Tamworth in Staffordshire, on 6.7%, followed by Knowsley in Merseyside (8.3%), Burnley in Lancashire (9.2%), Havant in Hampshire (9.5%) and Pendle in Lancashire (9.5%).<\/p>\n

Within London the lowest ranked were Barking & Dagenham (20.4%) and Havering (19.0%).<\/p>\n

How do London boroughs rank for percentage of entries getting top grades?<\/p>\n

Below is a list of how London boroughs rank for the percentage of entries getting grade 7 or above <\/p>\n

The City of London has been excluded from the list due to its small population size.<\/p>\n

1. Richmond upon Thames – 43.4%<\/p>\n

3. Kingston upon Thames – 42.5%<\/p>\n

5. Hammersmith & Fulham – 35.2%<\/p>\n

10. Kensington & Chelsea – 30.5%<\/p>\n

25. Waltham Forest – 23.8%<\/p>\n

28. Tower Hamlets – 22.5%<\/p>\n

31. Barking & Dagenham – 20.4%<\/p>\n

How did each London borough rank in England for pupils getting top grades?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is a full list for England by local area of the proportion of GCSE entries awarded 7 or above – ranked in order, with London boroughs highlighted in bold.<\/p>\n

The list is ordered by percentage, starting with the highest, and reads from left to right: name of local authority; proportion of entries receiving grade 7 or above in 2026; proportion (in brackets) receiving grade 7 or above in 2025.<\/p>\n

1. Cambridge 53.5% (50.3%)<\/p>\n

2. Richmond upon Thames 43.4% (43.2%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

4. Kingston upon Thames 42.5% (41.6%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

5. Trafford 39.7% (39.6%)<\/p>\n

6. Cheltenham 39.5% (38.8%)<\/p>\n

7. Hertsmere 38.1% (36.0%)<\/p>\n

8. Three Rivers 37.9% (38.4%)<\/p>\n

9. Epsom & Ewell 37.8% (41.5%)<\/p>\n

11. Waverley 36.6% (35.6%)<\/p>\n

12. Mole Valley 36.4% (37.5%)<\/p>\n

13. St Albans 36.2% (36.2%)<\/p>\n

14. Wokingham 35.9% (33.5%)<\/p>\n

15. Buckinghamshire 35.5% (35.1%)<\/p>\n

16. Guildford 35.5% (33.9%)<\/p>\n

17. Hammersmith & Fulham 35.2% (38.5%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

18. Tunbridge Wells 35.0% (33.0%)<\/p>\n

19. Chelmsford 34.6% (34.4%)<\/p>\n

20. Gloucester 34.4% (33.4%)<\/p>\n

21. Winchester 33.8% (34.9%)<\/p>\n

22. Wandsworth 33.4% (33.9%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

23. Southwark 33.3% (33.2%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

24. Stratford-on-Avon 33.3% (31.5%)<\/p>\n

25. Tonbridge & Malling 32.6% (34.0%)<\/p>\n

29. Elmbridge 31.6% (31.7%)<\/p>\n

30. Dartford 31.3% (33.3%)<\/p>\n

31. Rushcliffe 31.3% (31.9%)<\/p>\n

32. Hackney 31.2% (28.1%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

33. Reading 30.6% (30.1%)<\/p>\n

34. Kensington & Chelsea 30.5% (33.0%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

35. South Oxfordshire 30.4% (31.4%)<\/p>\n

36. Southend-on-Sea 30.3% (31.7%)<\/p>\n

38. Redbridge 30.1% (28.3%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

39. Watford 30.1% (32.4%)<\/p>\n

40. South Cambridgeshire 30.0% (29.3%)<\/p>\n

41. Mid Sussex 29.9% (26.9%)<\/p>\n

42. Westminster 29.5% (32.5%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

43. East Hampshire 29.4% (27.2%)<\/p>\n

46. East Hertfordshire 28.8% (31.2%)<\/p>\n

47. Runnymede 28.7% (33.3%)<\/p>\n

48. Brighton & Hove 28.6% (28.1%)<\/p>\n

49. Bromley 28.3% (27.4%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

50. Rutland 28.3% (31.7%)<\/p>\n

52. East Cambridgeshire 27.4% (25.4%)<\/p>\n

53. Warwick 27.3% (27.4%)<\/p>\n

56. Brentwood 27.1% (24.4%)<\/p>\n

59. Haringey 26.9% (25.9%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

60. Uttlesford 26.9% (27.2%)<\/p>\n

64. North Hertfordshire 26.4% (25.6%)<\/p>\n

65. Bath & North East Somerset 26.3% (26.6%)<\/p>\n

66. South Kesteven 26.3% (27.6%)<\/p>\n

67. Windsor & Maidenhead 26.1% (25.6%)<\/p>\n

68. Surrey Heath 26.0% (25.4%)<\/p>\n

69. Colchester 25.8% (26.6%)<\/p>\n

70. Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole 25.7% (27.0%)<\/p>\n

71. Cotswold 25.7% (22.2%)<\/p>\n

73. West Berkshire 25.5% (25.2%)<\/p>\n

74. Lancaster 25.2% (25.9%)<\/p>\n

75. Vale of White Horse 25.1% (29.6%)<\/p>\n

76. South Hams 24.9% (22.9%)<\/p>\n

77. Horsham 24.8% (22.4%)<\/p>\n

78. Stockport 24.8% (22.8%)<\/p>\n

79. Broxtowe 24.7% (24.0%)<\/p>\n

80. West Oxfordshire 24.7% (25.1%)<\/p>\n

81. Hillingdon 24.6% (22.4%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

82. Hounslow 24.6% (26.0%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

83. Islington 24.6% (23.4%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

84. Rossendale 24.6% (23.8%)<\/p>\n

85. Spelthorne 24.5% (24.9%)<\/p>\n

86. Greenwich 24.2% (23.3%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

87. Reigate and Banstead 24.0% (25.5%)<\/p>\n

88. Oadby & Wigston 23.9% (22.7%)<\/p>\n

89. Eastleigh 23.8% (21.5%)<\/p>\n

90. Waltham Forest 23.8% (23.5%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

91. Bristol 23.6% (24.9%)<\/p>\n

92. East Devon 23.6% (25.3%)<\/p>\n

93. Ribble Valley 23.6% (25.1%)<\/p>\n

94. Harborough 23.4% (24.6%)<\/p>\n

95. Preston 23.4% (20.9%)<\/p>\n

97. Enfield 23.3% (23.0%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

98. Gedling 23.2% (21.6%)<\/p>\n

99. Hinckley & Bosworth 23.1% (22.6%)<\/p>\n

100. Lewisham 23.1% (22.7%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

101. Maidstone 22.9% (25.7%)<\/p>\n

102. Canterbury 22.7% (22.8%)<\/p>\n

103. Sevenoaks 22.7% (22.8%)<\/p>\n

104. Tandridge 22.7% (24.4%)<\/p>\n

105. Calderdale 22.6% (22.6%)<\/p>\n

106. Manchester 22.5% (23.0%)<\/p>\n

107. Tower Hamlets 22.5% (23.0%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

108. Warrington 22.4% (21.8%)<\/p>\n

109. Birmingham 22.3% (22.2%)<\/p>\n

110. Chorley 22.3% (23.6%)<\/p>\n

111. Worcester 22.3% (23.4%)<\/p>\n

112. Gateshead 22.2% (21.4%)<\/p>\n

113. Bracknell Forest 22.1% (21.2%)<\/p>\n

114. Welwyn Hatfield 22.1% (22.6%)<\/p>\n

116. Wealden 21.8% (22.3%)<\/p>\n

117. Newcastle upon Tyne 21.7% (22.1%)<\/p>\n

118. West Lindsey 21.5% (23.4%)<\/p>\n

119. South Norfolk 21.4% (24.0%)<\/p>\n

120. Stockton-on-Tees 21.4% (20.4%)<\/p>\n

121. Charnwood 21.2% (21.6%)<\/p>\n

122. Cheshire West & Chester 21.2% (20.3%)<\/p>\n

123. Sheffield 21.2% (19.5%)<\/p>\n

124. Lambeth 21.0% (20.2%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

125. North Yorkshire 21.0% (20.8%)<\/p>\n

126. Worthing 21.0% (21.6%)<\/p>\n

127. Croydon 20.9% (19.1%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

128. Dacorum 20.9% (22.6%)<\/p>\n

129. Wirral 20.9% (20.5%)<\/p>\n

130. Solihull 20.8% (20.9%)<\/p>\n

131. Norwich 20.7% (21.9%)<\/p>\n

132. Ashford 20.6% (23.2%)<\/p>\n

133. South Derbyshire 20.6% (19.7%)<\/p>\n

134. Wiltshire 20.5% (21.9%)<\/p>\n

135. Barking & Dagenham 20.4% (20.9%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

136. Huntingdonshire 20.3% (19.2%)<\/p>\n

137.Wakefield 20.3% (19.6%)<\/p>\n

138. Kirklees 20.2% (19.9%)<\/p>\n

139. Rushmoor 20.2% (19.5%)<\/p>\n

140. Bolton 20.1% (19.2%)<\/p>\n

141. Bromsgrove 20.0% (23.5%)<\/p>\n

142. Derbyshire Dales 19.9% (21.4%)<\/p>\n

143. Epping Forest 19.9% (21.4%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

144. Leicester 19.8% (19.4%)<\/p>\n

145. North Tyneside 19.8% (18.9%)<\/p>\n

146. Exeter 19.7% (20.7%)<\/p>\n

147. Malvern Hills 19.7% (20.9%)<\/p>\n

148. Mid Devon 19.5% (19.2%)<\/p>\n

149. North Devon 19.5% (19.8%)<\/p>\n

150. North Somerset 19.3% (20.5%)<\/p>\n

151. Plymouth 19.3% (19.3%)<\/p>\n

152. Telford & Wrekin 19.3% (18.6%)<\/p>\n

154. Gravesham 19.0% (18.7%)<\/p>\n

155. Havering 19.0% (18.3%)<\/strong><\/p>\n

157. Babergh 18.9% (19.7%)<\/p>\n

158. Stevenage 18.9% (20.2%)<\/p>\n

159. Cherwell 18.7% (18.0%)<\/p>\n

160. Mid Suffolk 18.7% (18.7%)<\/p>\n

161. Cheshire East 18.6% (19.6%)<\/p>\n

162. Erewash 18.5% (17.2%)<\/p>\n

163. Blackburn with Darwen 18.4% (19.5%)<\/p>\n

164. County Durham 18.4% (17.6%)<\/p>\n

165. Lichfield 18.4% (17.2%)<\/p>\n

167. Rother 18.4% (19.9%)<\/p>\n

168. Coventry 18.3% (18.4%)<\/p>\n

169. Wolverhampton 18.3% (17.2%)<\/p>\n

170. Cornwall 18.2% (17.9%)<\/p>\n

171. Salford 18.1% (16.5%)<\/p>\n

172. South Gloucestershire 18.0% (18.3%)<\/p>\n

173. South Ribble 18.0% (18.3%)<\/p>\n

174. New Forest 17.9% (18.3%)<\/p>\n

175. Test Valley 17.9% (15.8%)<\/p>\n

176. Medway 17.7% (19.3%)<\/p>\n

177. Milton Keynes 17.6% (17.0%)<\/p>\n

178. Basingstoke & Deane 17.5% (17.5%)<\/p>\n

179. Chesterfield 17.4% (17.1%)<\/p>\n

180. Herefordshire 17.4% (15.3%)<\/p>\n

181. High Peak 17.4% (15.5%)<\/p>\n

182. Newark & Sherwood 17.4% (16.0%)<\/p>\n

183. Broadland 17.3% (16.4%)<\/p>\n

184. Doncaster 17.2% (16.0%)<\/p>\n

185. Ipswich 17.2% (18.6%)<\/p>\n

186. Thanet 17.2% (17.7%)<\/p>\n

187. West Northamptonshire 17.2% (16.2%)<\/p>\n

188. Eastbourne 17.1% (16.4%)<\/p>\n

189. Fareham 17.1% (18.0%)<\/p>\n

190. Somerset 17.1% (16.7%)<\/p>\n

191. Walsall 17.0% (17.7%)<\/p>\n

192. Liverpool 16.9% (16.6%)<\/p>\n

193. Westmorland & Furness 16.9% (17.1%)<\/p>\n

194. Nottingham 16.8% (16.2%)<\/p>\n

195. West Devon 16.8% (17.7%)<\/p>\n

196. Isles of Scilly 16.7% (13.9%)<\/p>\n

197. Oldham 16.7% (15.4%)<\/p>\n

198. Thurrock 16.7% (16.5%)<\/p>\n

199. Tewkesbury 16.6% (17.9%)<\/p>\n

200. Sefton 16.5% (16.4%)<\/p>\n

201. Southampton 16.5% (19.1%)<\/p>\n

202. Teignbridge 16.5% (12.6%)<\/p>\n

203. Folkestone & Hythe 16.4% (14.0%)<\/p>\n

204. North Northamptonshire 16.4% (15.9%)<\/p>\n

205. Northumberland 16.3% (17.3%)<\/p>\n

206. South Holland 16.3% (16.5%)<\/p>\n

207. Stafford 16.3% (16.6%)<\/p>\n

208. Amber Valley 16.2% (19.7%)<\/p>\n

209. East Riding of Yorkshire 16.2% (16.2%)<\/p>\n

210. East Staffordshire 16.2% (16.3%)<\/p>\n

212. Bassetlaw 16.1% (16.1%)<\/p>\n

213. Darlington 16.1% (15.0%)<\/p>\n

216. Dorset 16.0% (16.3%)<\/p>\n

217. North Norfolk 16.0% (18.6%)<\/p>\n

218. Bedford 15.9% (17.0%)<\/p>\n

219. East Suffolk 15.9% (15.2%)<\/p>\n

220. Peterborough 15.9% (15.6%)<\/p>\n

221. Barnsley 15.7% (16.3%)<\/p>\n

222. Broxbourne 15.7% (17.0%)<\/p>\n

224. Chichester 15.7% (14.2%)<\/p>\n

226. North East Derbyshire 15.7% (16.8%)<\/p>\n

228. Tameside 15.6% (15.5%)<\/p>\n

230. Bradford 15.5% (15.2%)<\/p>\n

231. Central Bedfordshire 15.3% (14.6%)<\/p>\n

232. Nuneaton & Bedworth 15.3% (15.4%)<\/p>\n

233. West Suffolk 15.3% (16.6%)<\/p>\n

234. West Lancashire 15.2% (16.4%)<\/p>\n

235. Staffordshire Moorlands 15.1% (19.0%)<\/p>\n

236. Sunderland 15.1% (15.4%)<\/p>\n

237. Wychavon 15.1% (15.3%)<\/p>\n

238. Portsmouth 15.0% (16.1%)<\/p>\n

239. Shropshire 15.0% (16.4%)<\/p>\n

240. Redcar & Cleveland 14.9% (18.7%)<\/p>\n

241. Swindon 14.9% (15.3%)<\/p>\n

243. East Lindsey 14.6% (16.9%)<\/p>\n

244. North Kesteven 14.5% (13.9%)<\/p>\n

245. Rochford 14.5% (14.1%)<\/p>\n

246. Torridge 14.4% (15.1%)<\/p>\n

248. Braintree 14.1% (12.6%)<\/p>\n

249. Rotherham 14.1% (13.1%)<\/p>\n

250. St. Helens 13.9% (13.1%)<\/p>\n

251. North Warwickshire 13.6% (12.9%)<\/p>\n

252. Breckland 13.5% (13.1%)<\/p>\n

253. Dudley 13.4% (13.0%)<\/p>\n

254. North West Leicestershire 13.4% (14.4%)<\/p>\n

255. North Lincolnshire 13.3% (15.2%)<\/p>\n

256. Rochdale 13.2% (11.8%)<\/p>\n

257. South Tyneside 13.2% (14.4%)<\/p>\n

258. Forest of Dean 13.1% (16.0%)<\/p>\n

259. Sandwell 13.1% (12.8%)<\/p>\n

260. Crawley 13.0% (13.2%)<\/p>\n

261. Hartlepool 13.0% (14.5%)<\/p>\n

262. South Staffordshire 13.0% (14.0%)<\/p>\n

263. Basildon 12.9% (13.6%)<\/p>\n

264. Hyndburn 12.3% (12.5%)<\/p>\n

265. Melton 12.3% (14.4%)<\/p>\n

266. Harlow 12.1% (11.4%)<\/p>\n

267. Cannock Chase 11.9% (12.6%)<\/p>\n

268. Great Yarmouth 11.9% (11.5%)<\/p>\n

269. Stoke-on-Trent 11.9% (12.8%)<\/p>\n

270. Lincoln 11.8% (12.1%)<\/p>\n

271. Ashfield 11.7% (11.3%)<\/p>\n

272. Middlesbrough 11.7% (13.1%)<\/p>\n

273. Isle of Wight 11.6% (12.9%)<\/p>\n

274. King\u2019s Lynn & West Norfolk 11.6% (13.9%)<\/p>\n

275. Cumberland 11.5% (14.3%)<\/p>\n

276. Newcastle-under-Lyme 11.5% (13.1%)<\/p>\n

277. Bolsover 11.4% (12.4%)<\/p>\n

278. Halton 11.1% (13.8%)<\/p>\n

279. Mansfield 11.1% (10.8%)<\/p>\n

280. North East Lincolnshire 11.1% (10.8%)<\/p>\n

281. Boston 10.8% (10.3%)<\/p>\n

282. Fenland 10.7% (11.1%)<\/p>\n

283. Blackpool 10.4% (10.4%)<\/p>\n

284. Tendring 10.4% (10.0%)<\/p>\n

285. Wyre Forest 10.4% (10.6%)<\/p>\n

286. Maldon 10.3% (13.3%)<\/p>\n

287. Redditch 10.3% (11.6%)<\/p>\n

288. Castle Point 10.2% (10.1%)<\/p>\n

289. Hastings 10.2% (10.6%)<\/p>\n

294. Knowsley 8.3% (8.9%)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four London boroughs are in the top 10 local areas in England with the largest percentage of 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1160454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,127011,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":["post-1160453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-gcse","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117131199819423187","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1160454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}