GCSE Chemistry Tutor Croydon: 2026 Grades, School by School

Leading Tuition's GCSE Chemistry tutors in Croydon are expert one-to-one online teachers who start from each pupil's own school, because DfE's provisional summer 2026 results record 785 separate GCSE (9-1) Chemistry entries across the 14 Croydon schools with 30 or more, and the share at grade 4 or above runs from 60% at Norbury High School for Girls to 100% at six schools.

Croydon means the London borough, DfE's local authority 306, and the Croydon tutoring hub covers the town as a whole. The separate GCSE is the single-subject Chemistry qualification. Pupils who take Combined Science (Double Award), a different qualification, are not in these rows.

How many pupils at each Croydon school sit Chemistry as a separate GCSE?

DfE's table gives two counts for every school: the entries in GCSE (9-1) Chemistry, and the pupils at the end of Key Stage 4. Set side by side they show how large the separate-Chemistry group is against the year group. Norbury High School for Girls has 208 Chemistry entries beside 228 pupils, which is 91 entries per 100 pupils. Woodcote High School has 62 beside 224, or 28 per 100, and Riddlesdown Collegiate has 51 beside 325, or 16 per 100.

Entries per 100 pupils is our own ratio of those two DfE counts, and it is a count, not a judgement of any school. Pupils at a school may also sit Combined Science, which is not in these rows, so the ratio measures the separate-Chemistry group only. Across the 14 schools the entries run from 31 to 208 and the cohorts from 120 to 325. Together the schools made 785 entries from 2,558 pupils.

The ratio changes how the grade columns below read. Norbury's counts describe a group that is 91 entries per 100 pupils of its cohort; Riddlesdown's describe 16 per 100. A tutor who knows the child's school therefore knows how large the separate-Chemistry group is at that school, and works from the child's own marks for everything else.

The rows are in DfE's order of entries, largest first. Orchard Park High School has the smallest cohort of the 14 at 120 pupils, with 57 entries, or 48 per 100.

Where do each school's Chemistry entries fall on the grade scale?

For each school DfE gives the entries at every grade from 1 to 9, plus the two non-grade columns U and X. Summed from those rows, 657 of the 785 entries are at grade 4 or above (83.7%), 353 are at grade 7 or above (45.0%) and 94 are at grade 9. These are our own sums of DfE's grade rows, and the share columns below are our own division of two DfE counts.

Six schools have every Chemistry entry at grade 4 or above: Woodcote High School (62 entries), Harris City Academy Crystal Palace (41), Fidelis College (38), Oasis Academy Coulsdon (32), Coombe Wood School (31) and St Joseph's College (31). For the other eight schools the share at grade 4 or above runs from 60.1% at Norbury High School for Girls to 98.0% at Riddlesdown Collegiate.

GIAS, the DfE register of schools, records the admissions policy of Woodcote High School, Harris City Academy Crystal Palace, Fidelis College, Oasis Academy Coulsdon and St Joseph's College, and of Norbury High School for Girls, as 'Non-selective' in its file of 3 November 2026. That is the register's own field and the page draws no further conclusion from it.

The upper grades follow a different order from the 4+ share. Riddlesdown Collegiate has 41 of its 51 entries at grade 7 or above (80.4%) and 13 at grade 9. Fidelis College has 35 of 38 at grade 7 or above (92.1%) and 7 at grade 9. Coloma Convent Girls' School has 32 of 46 (69.6%) and 12 at grade 9, and The Archbishop Lanfranc Academy has 24 of 51 (47.1%) and 11 at grade 9. At Norbury High School for Girls, 31 of 208 entries are at grade 7 or above (14.9%) and 3 are at grade 9; Woodcote High School has 26 of 62 (41.9%) and 9 at grade 9.

A school's 4+ share and its count at the top grades answer different questions. The six schools at 100% have between 12 entries at grade 7 or above (St Joseph's College, of 31) and 35 (Fidelis College, of 38), so the same 4+ share sits beside very different counts at the upper grades.

Where do the 128 entries below grade 4 or ungraded sit?

Of the 128 entries below grade 4 or ungraded across the 14 schools, 122 are at grades 1 to 3, 3 are at U and 3 are at X, by our sum of DfE's rows. Norbury High School for Girls accounts for 83 of the 128, against 228 pupils in its cohort. Orchard Park High School has 16 against 120 pupils, The Archbishop Lanfranc Academy has 12 against 159 and Oasis Academy Shirley Park has 11 against 158. Harris Academy Purley has 3, and Riddlesdown Collegiate, Coloma Convent Girls' School and Harris Academy Beulah Hill have 1 each. The other six schools have none.

A school's counts describe a year group and not a child. Two pupils at the same school can sit at either end of its grade range, so a tutor starts from the pupil's own latest mock paper and the topics it shows as weak, and uses the school's counts as context for how many classmates sit the same subject.

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What do these Croydon figures cover, and which schools are counted only?

The source is DfE's Key Stage 4 'Subject school level exam data', version 2.0, published on 15 October 2026 and read for this page on 3 November 2026. DfE labels the 2025/26 release provisional: approved result amendments that schools requested have not been applied, so a school's counts may differ from its final results. The release is on the DfE Key Stage 4 performance release page.

DfE's GCSE (9-1) full-course table lists 24 Croydon schools with Chemistry entries. This page tables the 14 with 30 or more entries, 785 of the 924 entries across all 24. The other ten have fewer than 30 entries each, 139 between them, and their counts are: Al-Khair School (16), Al-Khair Secondary Girls (13), Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School (22), Ark Blake Academy (12), BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology (24), Harris Academy South Norwood (9), Harris Invictus Academy Croydon (14), Shirley High School Performing Arts College (22), The New School (6) and Thomas More Catholic School (1). Their grade columns are not tabled, because the cut for tabling is 30 entries.

No Progress 8 exists for these pupils: DfE will not publish progress measures for 2024/25 or 2025/26 because the pupils had no Key Stage 2 assessments. Every figure above is a count of entries at a grade, so none is a measure of teaching, and none measures how much a pupil improved.

How do our Croydon GCSE Chemistry tutors teach a pupil?

Every lesson is one-to-one and online, on a shared whiteboard, with the pupil's own past papers marked against the real mark scheme and session notes shared with parents after each lesson. A pupil from Norbury High School for Girls, where 208 entries sit beside a cohort of 228, and a pupil from Riddlesdown Collegiate, where 51 sit beside 325, begin from the same step: a short diagnostic against the pupil's own exam board. Progress is reviewed against the pupil's own target grade at agreed intervals.

Our GCSE Chemistry tuition page sets out the subject programme, and the GCSE tuition in Croydon page covers the other subjects. The same tutors teach GCSE Biology in Croydon and GCSE Maths in Croydon. For a sixth-former the next step is A-level Chemistry tutors in Croydon. 91% of Leading Tuition students achieve their desired grades.

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