The Department for Education has published GCSE performance data for every secondary school in England for the 2024/25 academic year. The figures are released just two weeks before parents in the Cambridgeshire region face a deadline to submit applications for Year 7 places in September 2026.

Only two schools in the region appear among the top 200 schools in England, according to the results for 2025. The best-performing school is Chesterton Community College in central Cambridge , where 83.7 per cent of pupils achieved Grade 5 or above in both English and Maths in their GCSEs this year.

Parkside Community College, which is only a couple of miles away in Cambridge, on the other side of the University, is ranked second in our region, with 78.1 per cent of 16-year-olds reaching the s

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