GCSE Statistics Tutors in Cambridge: What the City’s Eight Mainstream State Secondaries Enter

GCSE Statistics is an optional extra GCSE that a school runs alongside GCSE Maths rather than in place of it, so whether your child can sit it is a decision their own school has already taken. Of the eight state-funded mainstream secondaries with Cambridge city addresses checked for this page, the Department for Education records 143 GCSE Statistics entries in 2024/25. One school supplied 101 of them. Three entered nobody.

How Many GCSE Statistics Entries Does Each of Cambridge’s Eight Mainstream State Secondaries Record?

The table below is every state-funded mainstream secondary school with a Cambridge city address that appears in the Department for Education’s school-level key stage 4 data. State-funded special schools appear in that same DfE file and are excluded from this set, as are independent schools; both are handled separately below. Each school links to its own Subjects entered at key stage 4 page on the DfE performance service, where the figure can be re-read in about ten seconds. The GCSE Mathematics column sits beside it as a same-school, same-year denominator, because a school recording 190 GCSE Mathematics entries and a school recording 87 are not comparable on a raw Statistics count.

Source: DfE Compare School and College Performance, Subjects entered at key stage 4, retrieved 17 September 2026, and independently reproduced from the DfE statistics API dataset Subject school level exam data. The service states that the measures published there in April 2026 relate to students who completed key stage 4 in the summer of 2025. DfE banners that this service closes from autumn 2026.

Two things about that table matter more than any single row. The first is that these are entries, not pupils: DfE’s own column heading reads ‘Total number of entries’, and a school that enters the same pupil for two qualifications contributes two entries. The second is that the spread is not a gentle one. Across the eight schools the Statistics column totals 143 against 1,098 GCSE Mathematics entries, but that total is carried almost entirely by a single school, and six of the eight sit at four entries or fewer.

This is why a county figure is close to useless for a Cambridge parent. Our GCSE maths tutors in Cambridge page makes the same point about attainment scores: Cambridge is not its own local authority, and everything DfE publishes about ‘Cambridgeshire’ blends the city with market towns and villages across the whole county. For an optional subject, where uptake is a departmental choice rather than a national requirement, that blending is even more misleading than it is for a compulsory one.

Why Does a Single University Technical College Supply 101 of the 143 Entries at Those Eight Schools?

Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology recorded 101 GCSE Statistics entries in 2024/25, alongside 104 GCSE Mathematics entries. Those two numbers sitting almost on top of each other is the whole story: at that school, taking GCSE Statistics is close to the default rather than an option a handful of pupils choose.

The reason is in what the school is. The government’s Get Information about Schools records it as a university technical college with an age range of 13 to 19, on Robinson Way, open since 1 September 2014. A university technical college does not take an eleven-year-old intake from a catchment area; it recruits at 13 into a technical and scientific specialism. What the entry data then shows is that a statistics qualification sits in front of very nearly the whole key stage 4 cohort at this school rather than a self-selecting few — 101 Statistics entries against 104 in GCSE Mathematics is as close to everybody as the figures get.

Set that school aside and the picture changes completely. The other seven schools checked here recorded 42 GCSE Statistics entries between them, against 994 GCSE Mathematics entries at the same seven schools. The Netherhall School accounts for 36 of those 42. So for a parent at Chesterton, Coleridge or North Cambridge Academy, the honest description is not that the subject is available — it is that one, one and four entries respectively were recorded in that year, and a single entry is one pupil rather than a taught cohort.

Which Three of Cambridge’s Eight Mainstream State Secondaries Entered Nobody, and How Do We Know?

Parkside Community College, St Bede’s Inter-Church School and Trumpington Community College recorded no GCSE Statistics entries in 2024/25. That claim needs more support than an empty cell, because an absent figure can mean a withheld one, so it is worth saying exactly what was checked.

Each of those three schools publishes a full Subjects entered at key stage 4 table, and in each one the alphabetical run simply goes past the point where a Statistics row would sit. At Parkside it reads Science: Double Award, then Spanish, then Turkish. At Chesterton, by contrast, the same run reads Spanish 57, Statistics 1, Turkish 2 — so a single entry is printed when there is one. Parkside’s table also publishes Japanese at one entry and Trumpington’s publishes Arabic at one, which is the direct evidence that these tables are not hiding small numbers. DfE does describe a five-pupil suppression threshold in its key stage 4 methodology, but states it as applying to figures relating to a cohort of five pupils or fewer, and these subject tables plainly print subjects with a single entry.

If this is your child’s school, the practical question is what the alternatives are, and that is a national question rather than a Cambridge one. Only two exam boards offer the qualification, and the private-candidate route, the rules on a school registering as a new centre, and what each board’s papers actually contain are covered on our national GCSE Statistics guide and, board by board, on our AQA GCSE Statistics and Edexcel GCSE Statistics pages. This page does not repeat them.

How Far Have Cambridgeshire County’s Statistics Entries Moved Since 2018/19?

Cambridgeshire is the local authority every Cambridge school is filed under, and it is a county: the figures below cover state-funded schools from Wisbech to St Neots as well as the eight inside the city. They are county figures throughout, never city ones.

Source: DfE statistics API, Subject pupil level local authority data, Cambridgeshire (E10000003), state-funded schools, total pupil entries, retrieved 17 September 2026. Published within the key stage 4 performance release for 2024/25.

The two middle years cannot be joined to the ones either side of them, and the reason is not a judgement of ours. DfE’s key stage 4 performance methodology records that the summer exam series was cancelled, that grades were centre-assessed in 2019/20 and teacher-assessed in 2020/21, and that the schools’ checking exercise was cancelled in both years, so those two are the only ones in the series published once and never revised. More directly relevant to a count of entries, DfE also records that both years ran on best-entry discounting rather than the usual first-entry rule — a change to which entries are counted, not only to how they were graded. Its own instruction is narrower than a blanket one and is worth quoting as written: 2020 and 2021 data ‘should not be compared to previous years’ attainment data for the purposes of measuring changes in pupil performance’. That sentence is about attainment. The reason this page also declines to read those two years as part of an entry series is the discounting change just described: a rule that counts a pupil’s best entry rather than their first changes which entries are counted at all, and it applied to exactly these two years.

Read the series with those two years set aside and it still moves, but it does not move in a line. Cambridgeshire went from 106 entries in 2018/19, the final year in which exams were sat before the pandemic, to 377 in 2024/25 — an increase of 271, which leaves the 2024/25 figure more than three times the 2018/19 one. Within the post-pandemic exam years it rose in each of the next two — 285 to 319 to 394 — and then fell by 17 to 377 in 2024/25. Anyone describing this as steady growth is smoothing a series that zigzags.

Against GCSE Mathematics in the same authority and the same year, 377 Statistics entries sit alongside 6,625 maths entries: roughly one Statistics entry for every 18 maths entries, or 5.69% when the two raw counts are divided. In 2018/19 the same calculation gave 1.89%, from 106 against 5,596. For context rather than comparison, England’s state-funded total was 31,402 Statistics entries against 606,761 maths entries in 2024/25, and 12,680 against 529,857 in 2018/19. These are ratios of entries to entries across a whole authority; they are not participation rates and they are not a share of pupils.

Two checks sit under the city figures above, and they are worth separating because they are not equally strong. The direct one is the query itself: asking DfE’s school-level file for GCSE Statistics across the whole of Cambridgeshire returns exactly 21 rows, and that return is the enumeration of every school and college in the county with a published Statistics entry. Those 21 rows sum to 380 entries, of which three are at independent schools that the authority-level dataset does not cover. Removing those three leaves 377 — exactly the county figure DfE publishes.

That agreement corroborates the enumeration rather than proving it. For an exact match to demonstrate that nothing is missing, the two files would have to be built on the same basis, and this page can show that they are not always: run the identical reconciliation for GCSE Mathematics and the school rows less the independents give 6,630 against a county figure of 6,625. DfE publishes no footnote explaining the difference of five, so this page does not explain it either. For Statistics the two agree exactly, which is consistent with the 21 rows being the complete set without demonstrating it.

The 143 entries at the eight schools checked here are 37.9% of that 377. Where a claim about one named school matters, the firmer evidence is that school’s own table rather than this sum — which is why the three Cambridge schools recording nothing are established above from the gap in their own DfE pages, not from the county arithmetic.

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Does GCSE Statistics Count Towards the EBacc or Attainment 8?

It is not an EBacc subject, and that is a checkable fact rather than an inference. The Department for Education’s list of qualifications counting towards the English Baccalaureate carries a maths sheet listing twelve qualifications: the four GCSE Mathematics specifications and eight AS-level Mathematics or Further Mathematics qualifications. GCSE Statistics is on none of the workbook’s six subject sheets, and the word does not appear anywhere in the file. The same workbook states that the EBacc headline and additional measures are being removed from key stage 4 performance measures from the 2025 to 2026 academic year, while the list of EBacc qualifications continues to determine what can fill certain Progress 8 and Attainment 8 slots.

That is the mechanism that decides whether a department can afford to run the course. Attainment 8, as DfE describes it, measures achievement in up to eight qualifications: English, maths double-weighted, three further qualifications that count in the EBacc, and three that can be any GCSE or an approved non-GCSE qualification. GCSE Statistics cannot fill the maths slot or an EBacc slot, but it can fill one of the final three. A school weighing whether to timetable it is therefore weighing it against every other option subject competing for the same three places, which is a different calculation from the one it makes about a science or a language.

The two qualifications are not counted against each other, though. DfE’s key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes list gives GCSE Statistics the discount code RB71 and GCSE Mathematics RB1, and discount codes exist precisely so that a single course of study is credited only once. Two codes, two courses. The same list carries exactly two GCSE Statistics qualifications, AQA’s and Pearson Edexcel’s, in every performance-table year from 2019 to 2028.

Which Kind of GCSE Statistics Support Does Your Child’s Cambridge School Point To?

The first question is not which board or which topic, but which of the three positions above your child is actually in. A pupil at Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology is inside a cohort of 101 rather than a handful, so what they need is subject support tied to the school’s own scheme of work. A pupil at a school recording one or four entries is in a much thinner position — often taught in a small group, sometimes largely independently — and needs more structural help. A pupil at Parkside, St Bede’s or Trumpington is at a school that entered nobody in 2024/25, and the first conversation is about whether the qualification is the right goal in the first place.

Those three situations call for genuinely different work, which is why the useful first step is establishing which one applies rather than starting from a topic list. Where GCSE Statistics is not the answer, strengthening the statistics content already inside GCSE Maths usually is, and that is a straightforward piece of work on a syllabus every Cambridge school teaches. 91% of our students achieve their desired grades.

Cambridge families often ask about neighbouring subjects at the same time, so it is worth saying where else this data sits: our GCSE German tutors in Cambridge page and our GCSE Economics tutors in Cambridge page use the same per-school DfE data for their own subjects, and show how differently uptake is spread across the same eight schools.

Frequently Asked Questions About GCSE Statistics in Cambridge