Results

GCSE Results 2025

Philips High School is celebrating its best-ever GCSE results!
We were delighted to see a big improvement in our results for 2025. Every headline measure saw improvements. Our students worked so hard to achieve these results. The Bury Times highlighted our 'remarkable' results when reviewing GCSE results across the local authority. You can read more about our year 11's achievements in the Bury Times article here Celebration across Bury as students smash GCSE expectations | Bury Times.
Huge thanks go out to our dedicated staff for their unwavering support.
We wish all of our 2025 leavers the best for their future endeavours!
Metric 2025
Progress 8 score* N/A
Attainment 8 score 49.73
EBacc Average Point Score 4.64
% of students entered for the EBacc 61.0%
Grade 9-4 in English and Maths 71.8%
Grade 9-5 in English and Maths 53.1%
Grade 9-4 in English 83.1%
Grade 9-5 in English 68.9%
Grade 9-4 in Maths 75.1%
Grade 9-5 in Maths 59.3%
% of students staying in education or going into employment after key stage 4 not yet released

*The Progress 8 score is calculated using the Sisra 2024 Collaborative Calculation.

Understanding our results

The government has changed the way that it judges the performance of schools. It no longer uses the percentage of students who have gained five A*-C grades but four other measures:

1. A “Progress 8” score. This shows how well students have progressed in the school since they came in from their primary school, compared to pupils in other schools who got similar results at the end of primary school. A positive score is good and a zero score is the average for schools nationally. For example, a score of 0.5 would mean that, taken together, each student in each subject did half a grade better than the average of all schools.

2. An “Attainment 8” score. This measures how well students perform across their best 8 subjects, including English, mathematics, 3 English Baccalaureate subjects and 3 other subjects. English Baccalaureate subjects include sciences, humanities and languages.

3. The percentage of pupils who achieved grade 5 and above in both English and mathematics. We have also included the percentage of pupils who achieved grade 4 and above in both English and mathematics in the table above for 2022.

4. In 2018, a new measure called the EBACC Average Point Score was introduced. This new measure gives an average point score across the 5 pillars of the EBACC, for all students in the school.