Greenwood Dale School was one of the best for improving pupils

Out of 150 local authorities, Rutland was the eighth best in England for GCSE results, Nottinghamshire being ranked the fourth worst, the tables show.

For A-level results Lincolnshire was best placed coming 18th in England with Leicestershire the worst coming 115th.

Greenwood Dale School, Notts, was the sixth best for improving pupils.

Out of individual schools, Derby High was the highest ranked in the region for GCSE results coming 55th in the country with 100% of pupils getting five or more A*-C grades.

Truancy rate

The worst performing was the River Leen School in Nottingham, which was the fifth worst school in England, where 23% of pupils got five GCSEs at C grade or above.

In A-levels the best placed was Spalding High School in Lincolnshire coming 71st in the country and The Becket School in Nottingham was 76th in England for the average grades score attained by all students.

New College in Leicester was the lowest placed coming 21st worst out of all secondary schools in England for A-level results.

William Sharp School in Nottingham was the fourth worst school in England for truancy with 9.5 half days per pupil of unauthorised absence in the school year.

David Kershaw, principle of New College, said: "I think league tables are valid and I tell you at New College we're going to go up the league table, this time last year we were bottom of everything, we're not now."

Barry Day headteacher of Greenwood Dale said: "What we do here is to make sure our students know precisely what we expect of them but also let them know precisely what they can expect from us and that's high quality teaching and the best support they can get anywhere."