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Average Attainment 8 score

2024/25 academic year Final

46.1points

Average Attainment 8 score was 46.1 in 2024/25 academic year, up 0.4% (0.2) from 45.9 in 2023/24 academic year.

▲ 0.4% · +0.2 against 2023/24 academic year (previous period)

  1. Department for Education index
  2. 2024/25 academic year
  3. published 4 August 2026
  4. 19e39901-560d-f972-b6f3-dd085539c095
  5. row “Pupil characteristic=Total; Pupil characteristic topic=Total”
  6. column “Average Attainment 8 score”
  7. cell value 46.1

2018/19 academic year to 2024/25 academic year

Average Attainment 8 score: 2018/19 academic year to 2024/25 academic yearConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour0204020192020202120222023202420252018/19 academic year: 46.7 points · published 4 August 20262019/20 academic year: 50.2 points · published 4 August 20262020/21 academic year: 50.9 points · published 4 August 20262021/22 academic year: 48.8 points · published 4 August 20262022/23 academic year: 46.3 points · published 4 August 20262023/24 academic year: 45.9 points · published 4 August 20262024/25 academic year: 46.1 points · published 4 August 2026
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What this measures

The average Attainment 8 score of pupils at the end of key stage 4 in state-funded schools in England: their best eight GCSE results, weighted towards English and maths, scored 0 to 90.

What this doesn’t measure

Results in independent schools, or comparisons across years in which grading standards were changed, including the 2020 and 2021 teacher-assessed grades.

Important caveat

Attainment 8 is a summary score across eight qualifications and changes when the qualifications counted or their grading change. Results for 2019/20 and 2020/21 were based on centre-assessed and teacher-assessed grades and are not comparable with examined years; 2022/23 returned to pre-pandemic grading.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher
Department for Education
Publication
Explore Education Statistics: absence, SEN, attainment, apprenticeships, NEET, class sizes
Release
Explore Education Statistics: releases to August 2026, published 4 August 2026
Source file
dfe_education.json
File SHA-256
301a1eda429205c90247cc4efad5564351b549d7772715a628d8459e360d8b47
Retrieved
3 September 2026
Sheet
ks4
Table
19e39901-560d-f972-b6f3-dd085539c095
Row
Pupil characteristic=Total; Pupil characteristic topic=Total
Column
Average Attainment 8 score
Cell value
46.1
Geography
E92000001
Unit
points
API
/api/metrics/attainment_8 · /series · /vintages

Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

Labour 2024–46.32022/23 academic year46.12024/25 academic year↓ 0.4%
Conservative 2019–202446.72018/19 academic year46.32022/23 academic year↓ 0.9%

Full comparison with chart

Release
Explore Education Statistics: releases to August 2026 · publication page
Last updated
4 August 2026
Next release expected
Not yet announced (estimated from the usual cadence)