GCSE Maths Tutor Chelmsford: 2026 School Grades

Leading Tuition's GCSE maths tutors in Chelmsford are expert one-to-one online teachers who start from each pupil's own grade, because DfE's provisional summer 2026 figures put 1,831 of 2,286 GCSE maths entries at grade 4 or above across 13 Chelmsford schools, and 764 at grade 7 or above.

Chelmsford here means the city and its district in Essex. DfE's local authority is Essex, so the counts below are Chelmsford's schools cut out of DfE's Essex table, with each school's number of entries beside its grade 4 and grade 7 counts.

How many pupils at each Chelmsford school reached grade 4 and grade 7 in GCSE maths in 2026?

DfE publishes GCSE maths grades school by school, and its Essex table lists 99 schools. Fifteen of them have a Chelmsford postcode district, and 13 of those carry a full grade breakdown. The table below gives those 13 in alphabetical order. A grade 4 or above count is every pupil with a 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9; a grade 7 or above count is every pupil with a 7, 8 or 9. The percentage is that count divided by the school's own entries, so a reader can see how large a year group stands behind each figure.

Across the 13 schools there are 2,286 entries, 1,831 at grade 4 or above (80.1%) and 764 at grade 7 or above (33.4%). All of these figures are provisional: DfE's release, published on 15 October 2026 and last updated on 28 October 2026, says in its own words that the data is provisional, and the next release is due in February 2027.

Two of the 13 are recorded in GIAS, the government's register of schools, with an admissions policy of Selective: King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford and Chelmsford County High School for Girls. They account for 329 of the 2,286 entries. Every one of their 329 entries is at grade 4 or above, and 312 of those 329 are at grade 7 or above (94.8%). The other 11 schools between them have 1,957 entries, 1,502 at grade 4 or above (76.8%) and 452 at grade 7 or above (23.1%).

Across those 11 schools, the count of grade 4 or above runs from 60.6% of the 99 entries at Hylands School to 97.7% of the 128 entries at New Hall School.

Where do the pupils sit between grade 4 and grade 7?

A school's grade 4 count and grade 7 count are two lines drawn across the same year group. The second table splits each school's entries into three bands: grades 1 to 3, grades 4 to 6 and grades 7 to 9. The U column counts ungraded entries and the X column counts pupils recorded as absent or pending, so every row adds up to the school's entries.

The middle band is where most of the 13 schools' pupils are. Across all 13 there are 1,067 entries at grades 4 to 6, against 764 at grades 7 to 9 and 435 at grades 1 to 3. Among the 11 schools that are not selective, the grades 4 to 6 band holds 1,050 of 1,957 entries (53.7%), so for a typical pupil in a Chelmsford non-selective school the working question is how far up that band they sit, and whether grade 7 is a realistic line or grade 5 is.

What does each school's year group look like?

The figures below repeat DfE's counts for each school in a sentence, with the cohort beside them. They describe results, and none of them says anything about the pupils or the teaching at a school.

Chelmer Valley High School has 191 entries: 131 at grade 4 or above and 41 at grade 7 or above. Its grade 3 count is 29 and its grade 4 count is 29, so the pupils within one grade of the grade 4 line on either side number 58.

Great Baddow High School is the second-largest cohort of the 13, with 248 entries. Its grade 4 count of 69 is the highest of any non-selective school in the table, 69 of its pupils sit at grade 4 and 38 at grade 3, and 42 are at grade 7 or above.

Hylands School has the smallest of the full-size cohorts, 99 entries, with 60 at grade 4 or above (60.6%) and 14 at grade 7 or above. Its grade 1 count is 11 and its grade 2 count is 11.

Moulsham High School is the largest cohort, 255 entries, and has the most pupils at grade 7 or above of the 11 schools other than the two that GIAS lists as selective, 80 (31.4%). Its 14 grade 9 entries are 5.5% of its cohort.

New Hall School has 128 entries, 125 at grade 4 or above. Only 3 of its entries are below grade 4, and 50 are at grade 7 or above (39.1%).

Ramsden Hall Academy has 13 entries, so every pupil there is a large share of the percentage: 2 at grade 4 or above and none at grade 7 or above. Its counts are best read as numbers of pupils, not as a rate.

St John Payne Catholic School, Chelmsford has 183 entries, 132 at grade 4 or above (72.1%) and 34 at grade 7 or above. Its grade 4 count is 32 and its grade 5 count is 37.

The Beaulieu Park School has 170 entries, 160 at grade 4 or above (94.1%) and 72 at grade 7 or above (42.4%). It has 21 grade 9 entries, 12.4% of its cohort. DfE's register lists it as an all-through school for ages 4 to 19.

The Boswells School has 237 entries, 186 at grade 4 or above and 51 at grade 7 or above. Its grade 4 count of 58 is the second-highest of any non-selective school here.

The Sandon School has 203 entries, 146 at grade 4 or above (71.9%) and 27 at grade 7 or above (13.3%), with 56 at grade 4 and 23 at grade 3.

William de Ferrers School has 230 entries, 162 at grade 4 or above (70.4%) and 41 at grade 7 or above. Its grade 3 count of 38 is level with Great Baddow's and the highest in the table.

The two selective schools are read differently. Chelmsford County High School for Girls has 179 entries, all at grade 4 or above, 164 at grade 7 or above and 79 at grade 9 (44.1%). King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford has 150 entries, all at grade 4 or above, 148 at grade 7 or above and 74 at grade 9 (49.3%). GIAS records both with an admissions policy of Selective, and each school's own admissions pages set out how its places are offered.

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Which pupils are one grade from the grade 4 line?

The grade 3 and grade 4 counts matter because grade 4 is the threshold in DfE's maths and English condition of funding. The condition applies to 16- to 19-year-olds on study programmes without GCSE maths and English grade 4 or above, who get support to improve their English and maths skills and make progress towards level 2. The page on gov.uk sets out the condition in full: 16 to 19 funding: maths and English condition of funding.

In the 11 schools that are not selective, 228 entries are at grade 3 and 377 at grade 4, so 605 pupils sit on one side or the other of that line. The table gives each school's two counts beside its entries.

Each pupil in the grade 3 column is one grade short of the line, and each pupil in the grade 4 column is one grade above it and one below grade 5. Across the 11 schools, 455 entries finished below grade 4, which is 23.2% of their 1,957 entries; of those, 228 were at grade 3.

A school's count does not describe a single pupil. A tutor starts with the pupil's own latest paper, finds which topics cost the marks, and works on those. Families can read more about tiers and exam boards on our GCSE maths tuition page, and about what follows a result below grade 4 in what happens after a failed GCSE maths result.

How do one-to-one online GCSE maths sessions work for a Chelmsford pupil?

Leading Tuition's tutoring is one-to-one and online, so a pupil at any of the schools above joins from home. A family books a free consultation through the button on this page or by WhatsApp. The first step is a short diagnostic against the pupil's own school and exam board, and sessions then run on a shared whiteboard, working through the pupil's own past papers and marking against the real mark scheme. Session notes are shared with parents after each lesson.

What the programme concentrates on depends on where the pupil sits in the tables above. A pupil at grade 3 is working to cross the grade 4 line; a pupil at grade 4 or 5 is working on the longer, multi-step questions that carry a result up a grade; a pupil near grade 7 is working on the reasoning questions at the end of the paper. Each programme is built from the pupil's own mock results, not from the school's average.

Our expert GCSE maths tutors also cover the wider maths tutoring service for pupils beyond Year 11, and 91% of Leading Tuition students achieve their desired grades. Families in Chelmsford can see the city's other tuition pages from the Chelmsford tuition page.

How was this table cut from DfE's Essex data?

DfE's table of GCSE (9-1) full-course maths results lists 99 Essex schools for 2025/26, because Essex, not Chelmsford, is the local authority. To find the schools of Chelmsford itself, each school's postcode in the Get Information about Schools register was looked up on postcodes.io, and the 15 schools whose postcode district is Chelmsford were kept. DfE's Essex table includes schools from other districts, such as Brentwood, Basildon, Braintree and Castle Point, and these are not read here.

Of the 15 Chelmsford-district schools, 13 are compared above. Clarity Independent School and The Belsteads School are listed in DfE's table by a total row only: 3 entries and 1 entry respectively, with no grade rows.

The counts come from DfE's Key stage 4 performance release for the academic year 2025/26, which DfE publishes on Explore education statistics as provisional. The subject is Mathematics and the qualification is GCSE (9-1) Full Course, so other qualifications that a school's pupils take are not part of this table.

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