Derby's best primary and secondary schools revealed for 2023/24 in new school report
A new report ranks Derby's schools based on their 2023/24 academic performances, highlighting the best primary and secondary institutions.
A new report ranks Derby primary and secondary school performances based on SAT and GCSE performance figures during the 2023/24 school year.
Online Marketing Surgery and Ratcliffe Cleaning Contractors have created a School Report using data from GOV.UK to rank the educational establishments.
They looked at all primary schools in Derby to find the percentage of students meeting expected standards for the 2023/2024 school year.
This means if the pupils achieve a scaled score of 100 or more in their reading and maths tests, and their teacher assessed them as 'working at the expected standard' or better in writing.
For those schools with the same percentages, these were ranked based on the amount of pupils that completed key stage 2.
For the secondary schools and colleges ranking, Online Marketing Surgery and Ratcliffe Cleaning Contractors looked at all secondary schools and colleges in Derby to find their attainment 8 score for the 2023/2024 school year.
Schools get this score based on how well pupils have performed in up to 8 qualifications.
Here are both ranking lists of top 10 primary schools and secondary schools/colleges/private schools in Derby.
Top 10 Derby primary schools with highest percentage of pupils meeting expected standard
- Gayton Junior School 81%
- St Mary's Catholic Voluntary Academy 80%
- Brookfield Primary School 76%
- Lawn Primary School 75%
- Walter Evans Church of England Aided Primary School 75%
- Mickleover Primary School 73%
- St George's Catholic Voluntary Academy 73%
- Homefields Primary School 73%
- Hackwood Primary Academy 73%
Top 10 secondary schools, colleges, private schools in Derby with highest attainment 8 score average
- Derby Grammar School 65.9
- Derby High School 63.7
- Landau Forte College 54.1
- Littleover Community School 53.8
- Saint Benedict, A Catholic Voluntary Academy 49.3
- Chellaston Academy 48.4
- Normanton House School 46.9
- Allestree Woodlands School 46.8
- West Park School 46.5
- Derby Moor Spencer Academy 44.1
Click here to read the full school report.