A Level Tuition in Barnet 2026

Leading Tuition provides A-Level tuition in Barnet, a London borough where 47 schools and colleges returned A-Level results in 2025, from outstanding grammar schools to a large sixth-form college and a specialist maths school. Barnet's average A-Level result across every provider was a grade B, 39.61 points per entry, against 36.1 nationally in 2025. This page sets out what those figures mean provider by provider, and how our tutors work with Barnet's A-Level students.

How Does Barnet's A-Level Attainment Compare With England in 2025?

Barnet's A-Level students achieved an average grade of B in 2025, worth 39.61 points per exam entry, calculated across the 3,500 A-Level entries the borough's schools and colleges returned to the Department for Education's Compare School and College Performance service, retrieved 23 August 2026. That is comfortably ahead of both national benchmarks DfE publishes for the same year: 35.0 points among England's state-funded schools and colleges, and 36.1 points across all English schools and colleges including the independent sector.

Barnet's students were also more likely to be retained through to the end of their main course of study than the national state-funded average - 95.9% against 93.1% - and outperformed that same national benchmark by more than half again on the borough's most academically demanding measure: 27.7% of Barnet's A-Level students achieved AAB or higher including at least two facilitating subjects, against 17.5% nationally. Nationally, the average A-Level point score rose slightly in 2024/25, from 35.55 to 36.09 points per entry compared with the previous year, and London recorded the highest regional retention rate of any English region at 94.5%, against a low of 89.2% in the North East - a context against which Barnet's own 95.9% retention sits comfortably ahead even of London's regional high.

Why Do Barnet's Top Two Grammar Schools Rank Differently at A-Level Than at GCSE?

A-Level progress score is a value-added measure, not a raw grade. It compares the actual A-Level results a school's students achieved against the average results nationally of students who had similar GCSE grades when they started sixth form. DfE reports it as a number centred on zero, alongside a plain-word band - WELL ABOVE AVERAGE, ABOVE AVERAGE, AVERAGE, or BELOW AVERAGE - and it is only meaningful read alongside the raw grades a school achieves, because the two describe different things: what grade a student left with, and how far they travelled to get there from a similar starting point.

That distinction matters directly for two of Barnet's three grammar schools - Henrietta Barnett and Queen Elizabeth's Barnet - because on raw attainment they sit close together and both are excellent. In the 2025 results, Henrietta Barnett School's A-Level students averaged a grade A, 48.6 points per entry, with 70.4% achieving AAB or higher including two facilitating subjects. Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet averaged a grade A+, 52.66 points per entry, with 83.8% at AAB or higher. Both figures sit well clear of Barnet's own borough average of 39.61 points, and both schools retained 99% or more of their A-Level students to the end of the course.

On the progress measure, though, the two schools diverge. Henrietta Barnett's 2025 A-Level progress score was -0.35, which DfE's own banding records as BELOW AVERAGE; Queen Elizabeth's Barnet's was +0.24, ABOVE AVERAGE. Part of that gap is a structural property of the measure itself rather than a difference in teaching: Henrietta Barnett is Barnet's most academically selective school at GCSE (see our separate guide to GCSE tuition in Barnet for those figures), so its A-Level intake starts from a GCSE baseline that already sits close to the ceiling of DfE's comparison group - which leaves less numerical headroom to register as positive progress than a school whose intake started from a lower baseline, even when its students go on to achieve top A-Level grades. Queen Elizabeth's Barnet, admitting a similarly selective cohort, still posted a positive score against that same structural headwind. Taken together, the honest reading is that these two schools rank differently on two different measures - one describing attainment at 16, the other value-added progress to 18 - not that one school outperforms the other.

Leading Tuition's own calculation, averaging the published progress scores of Barnet's three named grammar schools - Henrietta Barnett (-0.35), Queen Elizabeth's Barnet (+0.24) and St Michael's Catholic Grammar (+0.11) - gives a mean of exactly 0.00: (-0.35 + 0.24 + 0.11) ÷ 3 = 0.00. As a group, Barnet's grammar schools sit at DfE's own AVERAGE band on this measure, despite leading the borough comfortably on raw grades.

A-Level Results Across Barnet's Sixth Forms and Colleges

The table below sets out named, DfE-published 2025 results for seven Barnet providers with substantial A-Level entries, showing raw attainment and progress score together for each, because reading either figure alone misreads what a school is doing. Providers are ordered by average point score per entry.

Imperial College London Mathematics School also returned Barnet's highest 2025 A-Level results by some distance, but it is not a conventional local sixth form and is covered separately below, because comparing it directly against schools serving Barnet's own resident students on ordinary admissions would understate what makes it different.

What Is Imperial College London Mathematics School, and Why Is Its Barnet Site Significant?

Imperial College London Mathematics School is a specialist maths sixth form run in partnership with Imperial College London, based next to Woodhouse College in Finchley, within the London Borough of Barnet. It is not a neighbourhood sixth form for local Barnet residents: it admits a small, academically selective annual intake - 66 students joined in September 2025, its third cohort - drawn on aptitude for mathematics from a wide catchment across London and beyond, not from a Barnet-specific priority area. Every student studies A-Level Maths and Further Maths plus at least one of A-Level Physics or Chemistry, with a partnership arrangement that lets students take a fourth A-Level at neighbouring Woodhouse College, alongside enrichment run directly by Imperial College London academics.

On DfE's 2025 figures, its 43 A-Level entries averaged a grade A*-, 55.32 points per entry - the highest of any Barnet-based provider - with a progress score of +0.89, WELL ABOVE AVERAGE, also the highest in the borough, and 95.3% of its students achieved AAB or higher including two facilitating subjects. Those figures describe a specialist, nationally-admitting school that happens to be sited in Barnet, not a general marker of what a Barnet postcode offers - a family choosing between Barnet's mainstream sixth forms should read the results table above rather than this school's figures as the comparison that applies to them.

Where Do Barnet Students Most Need Extra A-Level Support?

Read together, progress score and raw attainment point toward different providers needing different kinds of support, and neither figure alone tells the full story. Barnet and Southgate College's 2025 results combine the borough's lowest average A-Level grade, D+ at 23.85 points per entry, with its lowest progress score, -0.53, BELOW AVERAGE, and its lowest retention rate, 84.4% - three separate measures pointing the same way, which is a different pattern from Henrietta Barnett's high-attainment, negative-progress result discussed above. Hendon School's 2025 progress score was -0.21, BELOW AVERAGE, alongside an average grade of C-, 26.85 points per entry - below Barnet's own borough average on both raw attainment and progress together. Wren Academy Finchley recorded a progress score of -0.12, BELOW AVERAGE, despite a respectable average grade of B-, 35.68 points, illustrating again that a solid raw grade and a below-average progress score can sit side by side at the same school.

None of this means a family should rule out any named school; it means the two different measures are answering two different questions, and a tutor's job is to work with the specific gap a student has, whichever school they attend. Our approach starts with a diagnostic assessment against a student's own exam board and current grades, not against a school's borough-wide average.

Which A-Level Subjects Do We Tutor for Barnet Students?

Barnet's AAB+-with-2-facilitating-subjects rate of 27.7% - against 17.5% across England's state-funded schools and colleges - means Barnet students are more likely than the national average to be building the kind of A-Level combination that competitive university courses look for, and our subject coverage is built around that combination as standard rather than as an add-on. Facilitating subjects, in DfE's own performance-table terminology, span Maths and Further Maths, the three sciences - Biology, Chemistry and Physics - English Literature, History, Geography and Modern Languages, and we tutor all of them one-to-one for Barnet students, whichever of Barnet's schools, sixth-form colleges or specialist providers they attend and whichever exam board - AQA, Edexcel, OCR or WJEC/Eduqas - their course follows.

For Barnet students studying towards facilitating-subject combinations aimed at Russell Group or Oxbridge offers, our tutors work from the specific grade boundaries and paper structure of a student's own board rather than a generic A-Level syllabus, and can extend into UCAT, LNAT or subject-specific admissions test preparation where a course requires it. For students on applied or mixed subject programmes, the same one-to-one diagnostic approach applies regardless of the combination a student has chosen.

How Leading Tuition Works With Barnet A-Level Students

Every Barnet A-Level programme begins with a short diagnostic session against the student's own exam board, current grades and course or university ambitions, rather than a fixed A-Level checklist, so a tutor can see immediately whether the priority is closing a specific content gap, building exam technique under timed conditions, or working towards a specific grade threshold for an offer. Our tutors hold degrees from leading UK universities and are matched to a student by subject, exam board and year group, not by availability alone.

Sessions run one-to-one online with a shared whiteboard, letting a tutor work through past-paper questions, mark answers against the real mark scheme, and share annotated resources in real time - the same working method whether a student attends one of Barnet's grammar schools, Woodhouse College, or any other Barnet sixth form or college. Progress is reviewed against the student's own target grades at agreed intervals, and session notes are shared with parents after each lesson so support at home lines up with what happened in the tutorial.

All figures above are drawn from the Department for Education's Compare School and College Performance service and its A level and other 16 to 18 results, 2024/25 release, checked on 23 August 2026, except Imperial College London Mathematics School's admissions details, which are drawn from the school's own admissions page, checked the same day. Families researching GCSE performance across Barnet can see our separate guide to GCSE tuition in Barnet, and our overview of tutoring across Barnet covers the borough more broadly.

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