GCSE English Tutor Chelmsford: 2026 Grades, School by School

Leading Tuition's GCSE English tutors in Chelmsford are expert one-to-one online teachers who plan English Language and English Literature as separate GCSEs. DfE's provisional summer 2026 tables list 13 Chelmsford-district schools for Language and 12 for Literature; at Moulsham High School, 214 of 254 Language entries reached grade 4 or above.

Chelmsford is a city in Essex, which is DfE's local authority 881, so the schools below are cut from Essex's 96-school Language table and 91-school Literature table by their GIAS district.

How many pupils at each Chelmsford school reached grade 4 and grade 7 in GCSE English Language?

The table counts entries in the GCSE (9-1) full course in English Language in summer 2026, beside the number of pupils DfE records at the end of key stage 4. Grade 4 is the level 2 pass grade in DfE's maths and English condition of funding. DfE's figures are provisional.

Read the table by cohort size first. Hylands School has 99 Language entries against 102 pupils at the end of key stage 4, and Great Baddow High School has 248 against 251, so a single pupil moves Hylands by about one percentage point and Great Baddow by under half of one. Ramsden Hall Academy appears with 9 entries against 18 pupils, so its percentages are on a base too small to compare with the other twelve rows.

Grade 7 is where the Chelmsford rows separate most. In English Language the grade 7 or above share runs from 6.9% at The Sandon School (14 of 202 entries) to 88.8% at Chelmsford County High School for Girls (159 of 179), while grade 4 or above runs from 59.6% at Hylands School to 100.0% at both Chelmsford County High School for Girls and King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford.

How many reached grade 4 and grade 7 in GCSE English Literature?

English Literature is a different GCSE with its own entries, so it has its own table. DfE's Essex Literature table has 91 schools, 12 of them in Chelmsford district; Ramsden Hall Academy has a Language row only.

The Boswells School has 211 Literature entries against 239 pupils at the end of key stage 4, and William de Ferrers School has 213 against 234, so the Literature percentages for those two rows rest on fewer entries than the cohort. At the other ten rows the Literature entries sit within 12 of the cohort. Grade 4 or above runs from 58.3% at Hylands School to 100.0% at the two grammar-school rows; grade 7 or above runs from 8.5% at Great Baddow High School to 83.8% at Chelmsford County High School for Girls.

Where English Language and English Literature differ at the same school

Subtracting one table from the other gives a difference in percentage points of entries. Literature has the higher grade 4 or above share at 6 of the 12 schools, the Language share is higher at 3, and 3 are equal; at grade 7 or above, Language is higher at 7 schools and Literature at 5. Each percentage uses that subject's own entries as its base.

The Beaulieu Park School shows the widest grade 4 gap in Literature's favour, from 87.7% to 95.7%, a difference of 8.0 points, and The Boswells School follows at 8.1 points from 71.0% to 79.1%. Moulsham High School runs the other way, from 84.3% in Language to 79.1% in Literature at grade 4. King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford has 31 Language entries at grade 9 and 44 in Literature, while Chelmsford County High School for Girls has 53 and 45.

These are counts and differences, not an explanation. Across the 12 schools the grade 4 or above difference runs from -5.1 to +8.1 points, and DfE's own tables keep the two subjects apart, so a tutor treats them as two programmes.

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How many pupils sat below grade 4, and what grade 4 decides after the exams

A percentage hides the number of pupils behind it. The table converts each row into entries below grade 4, counted as total entries minus grade 4 or above.

Those counts matter because of what DfE's maths and English condition of funding says for the 2026 to 2027 academic year. It applies to students on a 16 to 19 study programme or T Level who do not hold a GCSE grade 9 to 4 in English. Full-time students with a GCSE grade 3 must study towards an English GCSE, and students with a grade 2 or below can study towards Functional Skills level 2 or a GCSE grade 9 to 4. For a low grade 3 or below, institutions are told to consider readiness before entering the November resit series.

At William de Ferrers School the Language table shows 81 of 230 entries below grade 4; at Moulsham High School it shows 40 of 254; at Chelmsford County High School for Girls and King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford it shows none. Our guide to what happens after a failed GCSE English and our piece on failing English Language but passing Literature cover the resit route in detail.

What GIAS says about the two rows at 100% grade 4

Chelmsford County High School for Girls and King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford both show 100.0% of entries at grade 4 or above in both subjects. GIAS, the government's register of schools, records the admissions policy of both as Selective, and it records Chelmsford County High School for Girls as a girls' school and King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford as mixed. New Hall School shows 123 of 125 entries at grade 4 or above in each subject; GIAS lists it as an independent school with an age range of 1 to 19.

At those two rows grade 4 does not separate one school from the other, so the grade 7 counts carry the comparison: 159 of 179 Language entries at Chelmsford County High School for Girls (88.8%) and 122 of 150 at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford (81.3%), with cohorts of 180 and 151. In Literature the counts are 150 (83.8%) and 114 (76.0%).

What one-to-one online English tuition looks like for a Chelmsford pupil

Sessions are one-to-one online with a shared whiteboard, and a programme begins with a short diagnostic in English Language or English Literature against the pupil's own exam board. Our tutors then work through that pupil's past papers, marking them against the real mark scheme, and review progress against the pupil's own target grade at agreed intervals. Session notes go to parents after each lesson.

Because DfE records Language and Literature as separate subjects, with separate entries at every school in the tables above, a programme names which GCSE each session serves. A pupil working towards a secure grade 4 in Language and a grade 7 in Literature has two different plans, and the tutor keeps them apart. The GCSE English Language tuition page and the GCSE English Literature tuition page cover the exam boards, and the wider GCSE English tuition page brings them together. For other GCSE subjects in the town see GCSE maths tutors in Chelmsford and the Chelmsford tuition hub.

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How the Chelmsford cut was made

DfE publishes these grades in its subject school level exam data, dataset version 2.0, part of the key stage 4 performance release for 2025/26 that DfE published on 15 October 2026 and last updated on 28 October 2026. DfE describes the data as provisional, and counts pupils at the end of key stage 4 in summer 2026.

The Essex tables hold 96 schools for English Language and 91 for English Literature. Of the Language schools, 13 have the district Chelmsford in GIAS's DistrictAdministrative field, and 12 of the Literature schools do. Ramsden Hall Academy's postcode is CM11 1HN, in Ramsden Heath, and GIAS places it in Chelmsford district. Entries are not pupils, so the table shows the cohort beside every row.

No Progress 8 figure sits beside these results: DfE will not publish progress measures for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 academic years because key stage 4 pupils in those years did not have key stage 2 assessments due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Every grade here is a count of entries, not a measure of how much a school added. The sources are DfE's key stage 4 performance release for 2025/26, its subject school level exam data and the 2026 to 2027 maths and English condition of funding.

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