GCSE results 2026: How good were grades in your London area?

Four London boroughs are in the top 10 local areas in England with the largest percentage of 2026 GCSE entries receiving the highest grades.Some 43.4% of exam entries within Richmond upon Thames were awarded grade 7 or above, up from 43.2% in 2025, according to data published by Ofqual. It was the second best performing local authority in the country.It was followed by Sutton (43.0%) and Kingston upon Thames (42.5%) in third and fourth places nationally.Barnet made it into the top 10 with 37.4% of entries getting grade 7 or above.Scroll down for a full list of the ranking of London boroughs, and a separate list of how they rank nationally.The top performing local authority in the country was Cambridge with 53.5% of exam entries getting top grades, up from 50.3% in 2025.The local area in England with the lowest proportion of GCSE entries getting an 7 or above this year is Tamworth in Staffordshire, on 6.7%, followed by Knowsley in Merseyside (8.3%), Burnley in Lancashire (9.2%), Havant in Hampshire (9.5%) and Pendle in Lancashire (9.5%).Within London the lowest ranked were Barking & Dagenham (20.4%) and Havering (19.0%).How do London boroughs rank for percentage of entries getting top grades?Below is a list of how London boroughs rank for the percentage of entries getting grade 7 or above The City of London has been excluded from the list due to its small population size.1. Richmond upon Thames - 43.4%3. Kingston upon Thames - 42.5%5. Hammersmith & Fulham - 35.2%10. Kensington & Chelsea - 30.5%25. Waltham Forest - 23.8%28. Tower Hamlets - 22.5%31. Barking & Dagenham - 20.4%How did each London borough rank in England for pupils getting top grades?Here is a full list for England by local area of the proportion of GCSE entries awarded 7 or above - ranked in order, with London boroughs highlighted in bold.The list is ordered by percentage, starting with the highest, and reads from left to right: name of local authority; proportion of entries receiving grade 7 or above in 2026; proportion (in brackets) receiving grade 7 or above in 2025.1. Cambridge 53.5% (50.3%)2. Richmond upon Thames 43.4% (43.2%)4. Kingston upon Thames 42.5% (41.6%)5. Trafford 39.7% (39.6%)6. Cheltenham 39.5% (38.8%)7. Hertsmere 38.1% (36.0%)8. Three Rivers 37.9% (38.4%)9. Epsom & Ewell 37.8% (41.5%)11. Waverley 36.6% (35.6%)12. Mole Valley 36.4% (37.5%)13. St Albans 36.2% (36.2%)14. Wokingham 35.9% (33.5%)15. Buckinghamshire 35.5% (35.1%)16. Guildford 35.5% (33.9%)17. Hammersmith & Fulham 35.2% (38.5%)18. Tunbridge Wells 35.0% (33.0%)19. Chelmsford 34.6% (34.4%)20. Gloucester 34.4% (33.4%)21. Winchester 33.8% (34.9%)22. Wandsworth 33.4% (33.9%)23. Southwark 33.3% (33.2%)24. Stratford-on-Avon 33.3% (31.5%)25. Tonbridge & Malling 32.6% (34.0%)29. Elmbridge 31.6% (31.7%)30. Dartford 31.3% (33.3%)31. Rushcliffe 31.3% (31.9%)32. Hackney 31.2% (28.1%)33. Reading 30.6% (30.1%)34. Kensington & Chelsea 30.5% (33.0%)35. South Oxfordshire 30.4% (31.4%)36. Southend-on-Sea 30.3% (31.7%)38. Redbridge 30.1% (28.3%)39. Watford 30.1% (32.4%)40. South Cambridgeshire 30.0% (29.3%)41. Mid Sussex 29.9% (26.9%)42. Westminster 29.5% (32.5%)43. East Hampshire 29.4% (27.2%)46. East Hertfordshire 28.8% (31.2%)47. Runnymede 28.7% (33.3%)48. Brighton & Hove 28.6% (28.1%)49. Bromley 28.3% (27.4%)50. Rutland 28.3% (31.7%)52. East Cambridgeshire 27.4% (25.4%)53. Warwick 27.3% (27.4%)56. Brentwood 27.1% (24.4%)59. Haringey 26.9% (25.9%)60. Uttlesford 26.9% (27.2%)64. North Hertfordshire 26.4% (25.6%)65. Bath & North East Somerset 26.3% (26.6%)66. South Kesteven 26.3% (27.6%)67. Windsor & Maidenhead 26.1% (25.6%)68. Surrey Heath 26.0% (25.4%)69. Colchester 25.8% (26.6%)70. Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole 25.7% (27.0%)71. Cotswold 25.7% (22.2%)73. West Berkshire 25.5% (25.2%)74. Lancaster 25.2% (25.9%)75. Vale of White Horse 25.1% (29.6%)76. South Hams 24.9% (22.9%)77. Horsham 24.8% (22.4%)78. Stockport 24.8% (22.8%)79. Broxtowe 24.7% (24.0%)80. West Oxfordshire 24.7% (25.1%)81. Hillingdon 24.6% (22.4%)82. Hounslow 24.6% (26.0%)83. Islington 24.6% (23.4%)84. Rossendale 24.6% (23.8%)85. Spelthorne 24.5% (24.9%)86. Greenwich 24.2% (23.3%)87. Reigate and Banstead 24.0% (25.5%)88. Oadby & Wigston 23.9% (22.7%)89. Eastleigh 23.8% (21.5%)90. Waltham Forest 23.8% (23.5%)91. Bristol 23.6% (24.9%)92. East Devon 23.6% (25.3%)93. Ribble Valley 23.6% (25.1%)94. Harborough 23.4% (24.6%)95. Preston 23.4% (20.9%)97. Enfield 23.3% (23.0%)98. Gedling 23.2% (21.6%)99. Hinckley & Bosworth 23.1% (22.6%)100. Lewisham 23.1% (22.7%)101. Maidstone 22.9% (25.7%)102. Canterbury 22.7% (22.8%)103. Sevenoaks 22.7% (22.8%)104. Tandridge 22.7% (24.4%)105. Calderdale 22.6% (22.6%)106. Manchester 22.5% (23.0%)107. Tower Hamlets 22.5% (23.0%)108. Warrington 22.4% (21.8%)109. Birmingham 22.3% (22.2%)110. Chorley 22.3% (23.6%)111. Worcester 22.3% (23.4%)112. Gateshead 22.2% (21.4%)113. Bracknell Forest 22.1% (21.2%)114. Welwyn Hatfield 22.1% (22.6%)116. Wealden 21.8% (22.3%)117. Newcastle upon Tyne 21.7% (22.1%)118. West Lindsey 21.5% (23.4%)119. South Norfolk 21.4% (24.0%)120. Stockton-on-Tees 21.4% (20.4%)121. Charnwood 21.2% (21.6%)122. Cheshire West & Chester 21.2% (20.3%)123. Sheffield 21.2% (19.5%)124. Lambeth 21.0% (20.2%)125. North Yorkshire 21.0% (20.8%)126. Worthing 21.0% (21.6%)127. Croydon 20.9% (19.1%)128. Dacorum 20.9% (22.6%)129. Wirral 20.9% (20.5%)130. Solihull 20.8% (20.9%)131. Norwich 20.7% (21.9%)132. Ashford 20.6% (23.2%)133. South Derbyshire 20.6% (19.7%)134. Wiltshire 20.5% (21.9%)135. Barking & Dagenham 20.4% (20.9%)136. Huntingdonshire 20.3% (19.2%)137.Wakefield 20.3% (19.6%)138. Kirklees 20.2% (19.9%)139. Rushmoor 20.2% (19.5%)140. Bolton 20.1% (19.2%)141. Bromsgrove 20.0% (23.5%)142. Derbyshire Dales 19.9% (21.4%)143. Epping Forest 19.9% (21.4%)144. Leicester 19.8% (19.4%)145. North Tyneside 19.8% (18.9%)146. Exeter 19.7% (20.7%)147. Malvern Hills 19.7% (20.9%)148. Mid Devon 19.5% (19.2%)149. North Devon 19.5% (19.8%)150. North Somerset 19.3% (20.5%)151. Plymouth 19.3% (19.3%)152. Telford & Wrekin 19.3% (18.6%)154. Gravesham 19.0% (18.7%)155. Havering 19.0% (18.3%)157. Babergh 18.9% (19.7%)158. Stevenage 18.9% (20.2%)159. Cherwell 18.7% (18.0%)160. Mid Suffolk 18.7% (18.7%)161. Cheshire East 18.6% (19.6%)162. Erewash 18.5% (17.2%)163. Blackburn with Darwen 18.4% (19.5%)164. County Durham 18.4% (17.6%)165. Lichfield 18.4% (17.2%)167. Rother 18.4% (19.9%)168. Coventry 18.3% (18.4%)169. Wolverhampton 18.3% (17.2%)170. Cornwall 18.2% (17.9%)171. Salford 18.1% (16.5%)172. South Gloucestershire 18.0% (18.3%)173. South Ribble 18.0% (18.3%)174. New Forest 17.9% (18.3%)175. Test Valley 17.9% (15.8%)176. Medway 17.7% (19.3%)177. Milton Keynes 17.6% (17.0%)178. Basingstoke & Deane 17.5% (17.5%)179. Chesterfield 17.4% (17.1%)180. Herefordshire 17.4% (15.3%)181. High Peak 17.4% (15.5%)182. Newark & Sherwood 17.4% (16.0%)183. Broadland 17.3% (16.4%)184. Doncaster 17.2% (16.0%)185. Ipswich 17.2% (18.6%)186. Thanet 17.2% (17.7%)187. West Northamptonshire 17.2% (16.2%)188. Eastbourne 17.1% (16.4%)189. Fareham 17.1% (18.0%)190. Somerset 17.1% (16.7%)191. Walsall 17.0% (17.7%)192. Liverpool 16.9% (16.6%)193. Westmorland & Furness 16.9% (17.1%)194. Nottingham 16.8% (16.2%)195. West Devon 16.8% (17.7%)196. Isles of Scilly 16.7% (13.9%)197. Oldham 16.7% (15.4%)198. Thurrock 16.7% (16.5%)199. Tewkesbury 16.6% (17.9%)200. Sefton 16.5% (16.4%)201. Southampton 16.5% (19.1%)202. Teignbridge 16.5% (12.6%)203. Folkestone & Hythe 16.4% (14.0%)204. North Northamptonshire 16.4% (15.9%)205. Northumberland 16.3% (17.3%)206. South Holland 16.3% (16.5%)207. Stafford 16.3% (16.6%)208. Amber Valley 16.2% (19.7%)209. East Riding of Yorkshire 16.2% (16.2%)210. East Staffordshire 16.2% (16.3%)212. Bassetlaw 16.1% (16.1%)213. Darlington 16.1% (15.0%)216. Dorset 16.0% (16.3%)217. North Norfolk 16.0% (18.6%)218. Bedford 15.9% (17.0%)219. East Suffolk 15.9% (15.2%)220. Peterborough 15.9% (15.6%)221. Barnsley 15.7% (16.3%)222. Broxbourne 15.7% (17.0%)224. Chichester 15.7% (14.2%)226. North East Derbyshire 15.7% (16.8%)228. Tameside 15.6% (15.5%)230. Bradford 15.5% (15.2%)231. Central Bedfordshire 15.3% (14.6%)232. Nuneaton & Bedworth 15.3% (15.4%)233. West Suffolk 15.3% (16.6%)234. West Lancashire 15.2% (16.4%)235. Staffordshire Moorlands 15.1% (19.0%)236. Sunderland 15.1% (15.4%)237. Wychavon 15.1% (15.3%)238. Portsmouth 15.0% (16.1%)239. Shropshire 15.0% (16.4%)240. Redcar & Cleveland 14.9% (18.7%)241. Swindon 14.9% (15.3%)243. East Lindsey 14.6% (16.9%)244. North Kesteven 14.5% (13.9%)245. Rochford 14.5% (14.1%)246. Torridge 14.4% (15.1%)248. Braintree 14.1% (12.6%)249. Rotherham 14.1% (13.1%)250. St. Helens 13.9% (13.1%)251. North Warwickshire 13.6% (12.9%)252. Breckland 13.5% (13.1%)253. Dudley 13.4% (13.0%)254. North West Leicestershire 13.4% (14.4%)255. North Lincolnshire 13.3% (15.2%)256. Rochdale 13.2% (11.8%)257. South Tyneside 13.2% (14.4%)258. Forest of Dean 13.1% (16.0%)259. Sandwell 13.1% (12.8%)260. Crawley 13.0% (13.2%)261. Hartlepool 13.0% (14.5%)262. South Staffordshire 13.0% (14.0%)263. Basildon 12.9% (13.6%)264. Hyndburn 12.3% (12.5%)265. Melton 12.3% (14.4%)266. Harlow 12.1% (11.4%)267. Cannock Chase 11.9% (12.6%)268. Great Yarmouth 11.9% (11.5%)269. Stoke-on-Trent 11.9% (12.8%)270. Lincoln 11.8% (12.1%)271. Ashfield 11.7% (11.3%)272. Middlesbrough 11.7% (13.1%)273. Isle of Wight 11.6% (12.9%)274. King’s Lynn & West Norfolk 11.6% (13.9%)275. Cumberland 11.5% (14.3%)276. Newcastle-under-Lyme 11.5% (13.1%)277. Bolsover 11.4% (12.4%)278. Halton 11.1% (13.8%)279. Mansfield 11.1% (10.8%)280. North East Lincolnshire 11.1% (10.8%)281. Boston 10.8% (10.3%)282. Fenland 10.7% (11.1%)283. Blackpool 10.4% (10.4%)284. Tendring 10.4% (10.0%)285. Wyre Forest 10.4% (10.6%)286. Maldon 10.3% (13.3%)287. Redditch 10.3% (11.6%)288. Castle Point 10.2% (10.1%)289. Hastings 10.2% (10.6%)294. Knowsley 8.3% (8.9%)