A-Level Geography Tutors in Cambridge 2026

Cambridge’s sixteen A-level sixth forms and colleges return seven published 2024/25 Department for Education value-added scores for Geography, and they split cleanly by type: The Perse School (+0.63), The Leys School (+0.55) and The Stephen Perse Foundation (+0.49) all clear zero positive, while Hills Road Sixth Form College (−0.33) and Long Road Sixth Form College (−0.29), the city’s two largest state sixth-form colleges, both clear zero negative.

Which of Cambridge’s Sixteen Post-16 Providers Clear Zero on 2024/25 A-Level Geography Value Added, and What Splits Them?

Cambridge City Council has no role in education. The local authority is Cambridgeshire County Council (LA 873), so a Department for Education figure filed against a Cambridge school also covers Ely, Huntingdon, March, St Ives, St Neots and Wisbech — towns with very different sixth-form populations. This page defines Cambridge as the same sixteen post-16 institutions, all with a Get Information About Schools postcode between CB1 and CB4, used on Leading Tuition’s Cambridge A-level Physics and A-level History pages, and independently queried the Department for Education’s institution-level Geography value-added dataset for every one of them, filtered to subject Geography, qualification GCE A level and cohort A level, for 2024/25.

Of the sixteen, seven return a published 2024/25 Geography value-added score, five are suppressed because the matched cohort is too small for the Department to publish, and four return no row at all — recorded here as no published row, never as a confirmed zero Geography entries. Hills Road’s and Long Road’s own sixth-form colleges converted to academy status; our Cambridge A-level Physics page explains in full how that conversion moves a college’s results onto a closed predecessor Get Information About Schools record.

Source: Department for Education statistics API, dataset 019c2960-abc0-700e-91ed-bb9823c0feed, queried for GCE A level, A level cohort, subject Geography, time period 2024/2025, for all sixteen Cambridge providers, read on 24 September 2026. Institution type per Department for Education, Compare School and College Performance, as read for our Cambridge A-level Physics page on the same date. “Matched entries” counts only students whose prior attainment DfE could match to a 2024/25 Geography result.

All three independent schools with a published figure clear zero positive. Of the four state-funded providers with a published figure, two — Hills Road and Long Road, the city’s two largest sixth-form colleges by Geography entries — clear zero negative; the other two, Chesterton Community College and The Netherhall School, have intervals that span zero and are not significant results either way. No state-funded provider’s figure clears zero positive, and no independent school’s figure clears zero negative or spans zero — but the sample is small: only seven of sixteen providers publish a figure at all, and the widest intervals, Chesterton’s and Netherhall’s, sit on cohorts of 7 and 10.

DfE’s value-added score compares a student’s actual A-level result against the results of students nationally who started A-level Geography with the same prior attainment. It is a progress measure against a national benchmark, not a direct read of the grades a department achieves, and a positive score does not by itself show that a school “teaches Geography better” than one with a negative score — it shows only that its students’ results outran the national expectation for pupils who started at the same point. The interval width matters as much as the number: The Perse School’s +0.63 rests on 33 matched entries and spans a comparatively wide 0.65 of a grade (0.31 to 0.96), while Hills Road’s −0.33 rests on 124 entries and spans a narrower 0.33 (−0.49 to −0.16) — a smaller effect, measured with more precision because the cohort behind it is nearly four times the size.

What The Perse School and The Leys School Actually Teach — the Two Independent Schools With the Most-Certain Positive Scores

The Perse School’s own course page states its Geography board directly: “The examining board is OCR.” Its taught modules sit under OCR’s own qualification page, specification H481. At the end of Upper Sixth, students sit three exams: Physical Systems, Human Interactions and Geographical Debates. The non-examined assessment, 20% of the A-level, is submitted in the Michaelmas term of Upper Sixth using data collected over the preceding summer. For fieldwork, Perse’s own page states that Year 12 students take a residential trip to Birmingham and Snowdonia, alongside a separate day visit to Brick Lane in London.

The Leys School’s own Geography department page teaches Pearson Edexcel — it opens “A Level (Edexcel)” — specification 9GE0. Its named modules are grouped as Dynamic Landscapes (Tectonic processes and hazards; Glaciated landscapes and change), Physical Systems and Sustainability (the water and carbon cycles), Dynamic Places (Globalisation; Regenerating places) and Human Systems and Geopolitics (Superpowers; Health, human rights and intervention). Assessment is three written exam papers plus, in the school’s own words, “a coursework project which accounts for 20% of the A Level.” Its own page states that Sixth Form goes to the Lake District for its residential field trip — part of a wider department programme that also sends Year 7 to investigate the rocks around Cambridge and Year 8 to Snowdonia.

The Stephen Perse Foundation’s own A-level Geography course page could not be located within this page’s research — its Sixth Form site does not preserve a direct link to the subject page, and only its GCSE Geography page is published where this research could find it. Its 2024/25 value-added score, +0.49 (interval +0.03 to +0.94, 17 matched entries), is published above; no board, module or fieldwork detail is stated for it on this page, because none could be sourced.

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What Hills Road and Long Road Actually Teach, and What They Ask For — the Two Colleges Whose Scores Clear Zero the Other Way

Hills Road Sixth Form College’s own course page states its Geography board plainly: “Awarding Body OCR.” The modules it names — Coastal Landscapes and Earth Life Support Systems (physical), Changing Places and Global Connections, covering both Global Migration and Power and Borders (human), and Exploring Oceans and Climate Change (two of OCR’s five Geographical Debates topics) — match specification H481. Assessment is 20% coursework, typically submitted in October of Year 13, and 80% exam across three papers. Entry is GCSE grade 6 in Geography and grade 4 in Mathematics, or grade 6 in English Language or Literature with grade 4 in Mathematics and grade 4 in Geography “if studied”; the Minimum Entry Admissions Score is 58, or 56 for Cambridgeshire Area Partnership schools. Hills Road’s own page states 300 Year 12 and 13 students currently take Geography, and its reported 2026 results were 31% A*-A, 65% A*-B and 100% A*-E. Its own student-quote content names a Year 12 trip to Hunstanton, with an optional summer trip to Amsterdam.

Long Road Sixth Form College’s own course page states “Exam Board: Edexcel” directly, matching specification 9GE0. Its named modules run across two years: Carbon Cycle and Energy Security, Globalisation, the Water Cycle and Water Insecurity, Shaping Places: Regeneration and Tectonic Processes and Hazards in Year 1, then Glaciated Landscapes, Superpowers, and Migration, Identity and Sovereignty in Year 2, alongside a coursework report begun at the end of Year 1. Assessment is 80% exam and 20% coursework. Entry is five GCSEs at grade 5, including grade 5 in English Language, grade 5 in Geography (or grade 5 in English Literature if Geography was not taken), and grade 4 in Mathematics — a lower published Mathematics requirement than Hills Road’s grade 4, and a lower Geography-specific requirement than Hills Road’s grade 6.

Both colleges converted to academy status, and both have DfE’s doctrine of “no row” and “suppressed” applying to some of their neighbours but not to them: both Hills Road and Long Road have large enough Geography cohorts that their 2024/25 value-added score is published and its interval clears zero, in both cases negative. As with the independent schools above, that is a progress measure against a national benchmark, not evidence about the raw grades either college’s students achieve — Hills Road’s own 100% A*-E and 31% A*-A results for 2026, quoted above, sit alongside its negative value-added score rather than contradicting it, because value added and raw attainment answer different questions.

Geology and Environmental Science Are Not Geography

Hills Road Sixth Form College’s own Geography course page lists Environmental Science (AQA) and Geology (Eduqas) as separate “Related courses,” not as parts of Geography, and the Department for Education’s value-added dataset agrees: Geography, Geology and Environmental Science each carry their own subject code, and DfE’s figures throughout this page are Geography’s own row, never a Geology or Environmental Science entry folded in. A Cambridge provider that enters students for Earth Sciences: Geology or Earth Sciences: Environmental Science is not thereby entering them for A-level Geography, whatever the shared “Earth Sciences” heading on a school’s own course list might suggest.

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