23 April 2013 Last updated at 15:25

Secondary school league tables in Essex

Compare secondary schools in your area

Search by local authority Go Barking and Dagenham Barnet Barnsley Bath and NE Somerset Bedford Bexley Birmingham Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Bradford Brent Brighton and Hove Bristol, City of Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Calderdale Cambridgeshire Camden Central Bedfordshire Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester City of London Cornwall Coventry Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Riding of Yorkshire East Sussex Enfield Essex Gateshead Gloucestershire Greenwich Hackney Halton Hammersmith and Fulham Hampshire Haringey Harrow Hartlepool Havering Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hillingdon Hounslow Isle of Wight Isles of Scilly Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kent Kingston Upon Hull, City of Kingston upon Thames Kirklees Knowsley Lambeth Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Luton Manchester Medway Merton Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Newcastle upon Tyne Newham Norfolk North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire North Somerset North Tyneside North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redbridge Redcar and Cleveland Richmond upon Thames Rochdale Rotherham Rutland Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Gloucestershire South Tyneside Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St. Helens Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sutton Swindon Tameside Telford and Wrekin Thurrock Torbay Tower Hamlets Trafford Wakefield Walsall Waltham Forest Wandsworth Warrington Warwickshire West Berkshire West Sussex Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York

Q&A: School league tables Guide: Understanding the tables

? Click on a column below to sort by results, or check names to compare schools

What does this mean? School name	What does this mean? Five good GCSEs or equivalents (%)	What does this mean? English Bacc (%)	What does this mean? Value Added	What does this mean? A/AS-level points per pupil
King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford (SEL)	100	91	1021.7	1307.6
Chelmsford County High School for Girls (SEL)	100	90	1035.2	1202.9
Colchester County High School for Girls (SEL)	99	85	1025.3	1183.4
Colchester Royal Grammar School (SEL)	99	88	1018.6	1434
Chigwell School (IND)	94	87	NA	942.4
St Mary's School for Girls (IND)	93	63	NA	NA
Colchester High School (IND)	93	31	NA	NA
Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College (IND)	88	13	NA	744.5
Felsted School (IND)	88	64	NA	794.4
Brentwood School (IND)	86	57	NA	896.3
Saffron Walden County High School	81	36	1008.5	921.6
New Hall School (IND)	81	36	NA	881.9
Davenant Foundation School	81	19	1003.2	857.6
Greensward Academy (AC)	78	5	1010.9	713.4
Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School	76	23	1004.4	784.7
The King John School	75	20	1031.6	760.7
St Martin's School Brentwood	75	22	994.8	933.4
Beauchamps High School	74	6	997.8	649.4
Burnt Mill Comprehensive School	72	3	1041.8	NA
Colne Community School and College	72	15	1009.9	638
The Honywood Community Science School	72	13	974	NA
Anglo European School	71	41	995.9	842.7
Philip Morant School and College	70	10	986.3	684.6
Tendring Technology College	69	8	1007.5	770.7
West Hatch High School	68	6	988	683.2
Hedingham School and Sixth Form	67	18	1024.9	698.8
Mayflower High School	67	25	1001.9	841.8
Helena Romanes School and Sixth Form Centre	67	11	964.5	692.1
St John's School (IND)	67	20	NA	NA
Passmores Academy	66	13	1015.4	NA
The Appleton School	65	8	1029.7	NA
Newport Free Grammar School	65	34	984	757.3
The Sweyne Park School	65	30	999.3	NA
Notley High School and Braintree Sixth Form	64	13	996.3	776.8
Chelmer Valley High School	63	7	994.2	834
St John Payne Catholic Comprehensive School, Chelmsford	63	17	977.1	951.7
Debden Park High School	63	5	992.4	NA
Great Baddow High School	62	7	992.8	827.5
The FitzWimarc School	62	14	1002.4	NA
Moulsham High School	62	14	977.2	898
Shenfield High School	61	12	1005.3	743.3
St John's Church of England Voluntary Controlled School	60	16	1000.4	NA
The Boswells School	60	35	994.9	871.4
Brentwood County High School	59	5	986.6	830
Thurstable School Sports College and Sixth Form Centre	59	10	994.4	485.1
The Thomas Lord Audley School	58	7	998.2	NA
St Mark's West Essex Catholic School	58	12	988.8	663.8
Plume School	58	6	989	662.7
The Harwich School	57	8	981.1	758.2
St Benedict's Catholic College	57	20	990.6	NA
The Billericay School	57	6	996.5	874.7
The Deanes School	57	7	1000.3	NA
The Cornelius Vermuyden School	57	1	994.5	NA
The Sandon School	56	15	991.6	725.8
The Stanway School	56	10	1008.3	NA
William de Ferrers School	56	7	997.9	746.9
Castle View School	56	3	971.4	NA
The Bromfords School	55	2	978.8	678.9
De La Salle School and Language College	54	19	1043	NA
Tabor Science College	54	8	980.4	NA
Colchester Academy (AC)	53	6	998.2	NA
The Gilberd School	52	9	989	NA
Clacton County High School	51	3	1055.5	635.2
Stewards School - Science Specialist, Harlow	51	2	1007.9	NA
Maltings Academy (AC)	51	1	982.5	559
Ormiston Rivers Academy (AC)	50	14	996.9	542
King Harold Business & Enterprise Academy	50	0	972.6	NA
Hylands School	50	14	959.7	603.8
Roding Valley High School	49	8	988.2	NA
The King Edmund School	49	5	974.4	715.5
The Mountfitchet Mathematics and Computing College	47	9	948.7	NA
Friends School (IND)	47	12	NA	803.6
The Basildon Upper Academy (AC)	45	0	993.2	574.4
St Helena School	45	8	987.4	NA
New Rickstones Academy (AC)	43	7	1007.3	586.7
The Ramsey College	42	5	956	NA
Manningtree High School	42	7	957.8	NA
Woodlands School	39	20	947.8	NA
Clacton Coastal Academy (AC)	36	1	1001	559.3
Alec Hunter Humanities College	36	6	958.3	NA
Alderman Blaxill School	35	0	1004.1	NA
The James Hornsby High School (SHUT)	26	1	1017.1	NA
Mark Hall Specialist Sport College	25	0	944.8	NA
Sawyers Hall College (SHUT)	22	2	951.5	555.7

What do the table headers mean?

School name

Click to visit the Department for Education's information and performance data for the school

Five GCSES A*-C

The percentage of pupils getting grades A*-C in five GCSE - or equivalent qualifications - including maths and English

% English Bacc

The percentage of pupils getting A*-C GCSE passes in maths, English, two science subjects, a language and either history or geography.

Five GCSEs only

The percentage of pupils getting grades A*-C in five GCSE qualifications only, including maths and English GCSE

Value added

A statistical measure of how well pupils are helped to progress from their starting point. A score above 1,000 is better than the national average

A/AS points

The average number of points netted per pupil at the institution taking AS/A-level or equivalent qualifications

% getting three A-levels

The percentage of pupils getting three A-levels or equivalent qualifications