South Yorkshire's 16 best-performing state secondary schools of 2024 - from latest school year's results

Many of these top schools will be familiar names to local parents 👀

South Yorkshire has held onto its title as home to some of the highest performing state secondary schools in the country, in the latest school year’s performance data.

The government’s brand new preliminary performance figures for state-funded secondary schools were released last month, after initially facing delays. Using this data, we’ve created a league table ranking the top state secondary schools across South Yorkshire’s four major local authority areas - Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield - for the 2023/24 school year.

It’s based on their latest Progress 8 scores, a unique figure based on GCSE results and other student achievements which helps to determine how quickly a school’s pupils are learning and progressing compared to peers arriving from similar primary schools nationwide. Any score above 0 is positive, but we’ve selected only those above 0.2, which are considered ‘above average’.

Some of the schools featured also made the overall league table for the whole of Yorkshire, while families who check in on the latest performance data regularly will spot quite a few familiar names from last year’s South Yorkshire rankings - plus a few new ones.

We’ve also made sure that all schools included on the list also had an overall Ofsted rating of ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ before this measure was recently dropped, or, if they’ve been inspected more recently, had passing marks across the board. This means that the quality of education, student behaviour and attitudes, school leadership and management, and safeguarding all met or exceeded government standards the last time the school was inspected.

Here are the 16 schools from across South Yorkshire that dominated the performance charts in 2024:

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