The 10 worst performing Sheffield secondary schools according to latest GCSEs

The students who picked up their GCSEs in August 2025 were in Y6 when the Covid-19 pandemic hit. They began their secondary school careers on Zoom calls and separated from their friends. Even when lockdown measures ended, it truly hung over their entire secondary school careers.

Now, the latest ‘Attainment 8’ scores for England’s schools are out, showing the best and worst performing schools in Sheffield by GCSE grades in 2025.

Attainment 8s are a score schools get based on how well pupils have performed in up to eight qualifications, made up of a combination of English, maths, sciences, computer science, history, geography and languages, and other qualifications.

Alongside those are figures for how many pupils earned at least a Grade 5 in English and maths, as well as the number of pupils who entered 'EBacc' - shorthand for if pupils study English, maths, sciences, a language, and either history or geography.

They are not the official metric the Government uses to gauge how well a school is doing - but they do give a good insight into what kind of grades pupils get at each school in Sheffield.

Sadly, there will always be schools posting the lowest performances in the city, and the 10 listed below reported the lowest grades in Sheffield.

However, alongside each is a a reason the school has celebrated in the last two years - from a complimentary line from Ofsted inspectors, to new classrooms going up soon, to kind words from principals about their students.