GCSE English Tutor Ealing: 2026 Grades, School by School

Leading Tuition's GCSE English tutors in Ealing are expert one-to-one online teachers who start from each pupil's own school and from the weaker of two separate GCSEs. In DfE's provisional summer 2026 data, the share of English Language entries at grade 4 or above runs from 43% at Islip Manor High School (172 entries) to 99% at St Augustine's Priory (72 entries), and in English Literature from 45% to 100%.

Ealing means the London borough, DfE's local authority 307. DfE's GCSE (9-1) full-course table lists 19 Ealing schools with 30 or more English Language entries and 18 with 30 or more English Literature entries, and every row below carries entries beside pupils at the end of Key Stage 4.

How does English Language at grade 4 or above vary across Ealing's schools?

The first table reads DfE's English Language results for summer 2026. Each row gives the school's English Language entries, the pupils it had at the end of Key Stage 4, and the count and share of entries at grade 4 or above and at grade 7 or above. Across the 19 schools together there were 3860 entries, of which 3053 reached grade 4 or above (79%) and 1083 reached grade 7 or above (28%).

English Language, GCSE (9-1) full course, summer 2026 (provisional), Ealing schools with 30 or more entries

Grade 4 or above is 90% or more at 4 of the 19 schools: St Augustine's Priory (72 entries, 99%), St Benedict's School (114 entries, 98%), Ark Soane Academy (167 entries, 93%) and The Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School (301 entries, 92%). It is below 70% at 4: Greenford High School (289 entries, 68%), Brentside High School (270 entries, 64%), Ark Acton Academy (115 entries, 54%) and Islip Manor High School (172 entries, 43%). The other 11 sit between 71% and 89%, from Alec Reed Academy to Elthorne Park High School.

Grade 7 or above spreads wider. It runs from 6% at Islip Manor High School (10 of 172 entries) to 60% at St Benedict's School (68 of 114). Among the other 18 schools the highest is 47% at Ealing Fields Church of England High School (71 of 151). These are shares of entries, and they describe a year group, so a school's row is context for a pupil and never a prediction of one pupil's grade.

Our tutors read the row alongside the pupil's own latest English Language mock, and the GCSE English Language tuition page sets out how the paper is taught.

How does English Literature at grade 4 or above vary across Ealing's schools?

English Literature is a different GCSE with its own entries, so it has its own table. In summer 2026 the 18 schools below made 3710 English Literature entries together, of which 3051 reached grade 4 or above (82%) and 1127 reached grade 7 or above (30%).

English Literature, GCSE (9-1) full course, summer 2026 (provisional), Ealing schools with 30 or more entries

In English Literature grade 4 or above is 90% or more at 8 of the 18 schools: St Augustine's Priory (72 entries, 100%), Ark Soane Academy (167 entries, 96%), Ealing Fields Church of England High School (150 entries, 93%), Elthorne Park High School (232 entries, 93%), William Perkin Church of England High School (203 entries, 93%), Twyford Church of England High School (200 entries, 92%), Drayton Manor High School (232 entries, 90%) and The Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School (301 entries, 90%). It is below 70% at 4: Greenford High School (289 entries, 68%), Ark Acton Academy (112 entries, 65%), Brentside High School (270 entries, 65%) and Islip Manor High School (155 entries, 45%). Between them, 6 schools run from 75% to 89%.

Grade 7 or above in Literature runs from 8% at Islip Manor High School (13 of 155 entries) to 54% at Ealing Fields Church of England High School (81 of 150). Ealing Fields Church of England High School has 54% (81 of 150) in Literature, and 47% (71 of 151) in Language.

Both tables use DfE's English subject lines, so Language and Literature are never added together here. The GCSE English Literature tuition page covers the set texts and the closed-book paper.

Where does one school's English Literature share differ from its English Language share?

18 Ealing schools have 30 or more entries in both subjects. The third table sets each school's two GCSEs side by side, using the same whole-percent shares as the first two tables.

At grade 4 or above, Literature is higher than Language at 16 of the 18 schools, equal at 1 and lower at 1, which is The Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School (92% in Language, 90% in Literature, 301 entries in each). The largest difference in Literature's favour is 11 percentage points at Ark Acton Academy (54% against 65%, with 115 Language and 112 Literature entries), then 9 points at Villiers High School and 7 at Featherstone High School.

At grade 7 or above the differences are larger. Ark Soane Academy has 32% in Language (53 of 167) and 48% in Literature (80 of 167), a difference of 16 points across 167 entries in each. William Perkin Church of England High School follows with 9 points. In the other direction The Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School has 31% in Language and 24% in Literature, and Alec Reed Academy has 20% and 18%. At 3 schools the two shares at grade 7 or above are equal.

These are counts and shares, not explanations: DfE's table does not say why a school's two results differ. What the table does show is that the distance between the two GCSEs is not the same everywhere, from no difference at Greenford High School to 11 points at Ark Acton Academy, so a pupil's own two mock results decide which GCSE a programme starts with.

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What does a grade 4 share miss at St Augustine's Priory and St Benedict's School?

The two highest English Language shares at grade 4 or above in the table sit at St Augustine's Priory (71 of 72 entries, 99%) and St Benedict's School (112 of 114 entries, 98%). In Literature, St Augustine's Priory has 72 of 72 entries at grade 4 or above, which is 100%.

A share that close to the ceiling cannot separate one year group from another, and a borough-wide range for English would hide it. Each school describes its own Year 7 entry. St Augustine's Priory says on its 11+ admissions page that its process is selective and involves an online entrance test and a face-to-face interview. St Benedict's School says on its senior school admissions page that all Year 7 candidates must sit the school's 11+ entrance examination.

At these two schools grade 7 or above is where the spread shows. In English Language it is 30 of 72 entries (42%) at St Augustine's Priory and 68 of 114 (60%) at St Benedict's School, the highest of the 19 schools. In English Literature, St Augustine's Priory has 31 of 72 entries (43%) at grade 7 or above.

For a pupil at either school the useful question is therefore which grade the pupil is working towards, because a school at the ceiling of grade 4 has little to say about a target of grade 7, 8 or 9. Our tutors build the programme from that target and from the pupil's own marks on past papers.

How do entries compare with pupils at the end of Key Stage 4?

DfE's table counts GCSE (9-1) full-course entries in each subject, and separately records the pupils a school had at the end of Key Stage 4. The two numbers are not the same thing. Alec Reed Academy, for example, has 164 English Language entries and 158 English Literature entries beside 174 pupils at the end of Key Stage 4. Islip Manor High School has 172 Language entries and 155 Literature entries beside 172 pupils.

Ark Acton Academy has 115 Language and 112 Literature entries beside 115 pupils, and Brentside High School has 270 and 270 beside 273. A row with fewer entries than pupils is a row of those entries, and this table counts only the GCSE (9-1) full-course qualification, so entries beside pupils is context for reading a row, not a verdict on the school.

DfE's English Language table also lists four Ealing schools with fewer than 30 entries, which this page leaves out of the share tables: Ayesha Siddiqa Girls School (15 entries), Ealing Independent College (25 entries), Insights Independent School (20 entries) and North West London Independent Special School (6 entries). In English Literature the entries are 12 at Ealing Independent College, 15 at Ayesha Siddiqa Girls School and 1 at North West London Independent Special School.

No Progress 8 exists for these pupils. On its Key stage 4 performance release, DfE states that it is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 because no Key Stage 2 prior attainment data is available for those cohorts. DfE published the release on 15 October 2026 and labels its data provisional, and this page reads data set version 2.0, queried on 31 October 2026. Every figure here is an entry count or a share of entries.

How should an Ealing parent read a school's row before booking English tuition?

Four readings of the tables are worth making, in this order.

First, find the school's row in each subject. A pupil at Brentside High School sits in a school with 64% at grade 4 or above in Language (172 of 270 entries) and 65% in Literature (176 of 270). A pupil at Ark Acton Academy sits in a school with 54% and 65%, from 115 and 112 entries.

Second, look at the distance between the two GCSEs. The rows for Ark Soane Academy show 93% in Language and 96% in Literature at grade 4 or above, and 32% and 48% at grade 7 or above. The rows for Villiers High School show 71% and 80% at grade 4 or above, and 21% and 29% at grade 7 or above.

Third, check the threshold that matters. A school at 79% in Language at grade 4 or above, such as Dormers Wells High School, has a different question to answer from one at 72%, such as Featherstone High School. The first table carries both thresholds for that reason.

Fourth, set the school against the pupil. The row describes a year group. The pupil's own mock paper in each GCSE is the evidence a tutor works from, and the school's row only tells a parent which end of Ealing's range the school sits in.

How do Leading Tuition's tutors teach GCSE English to Ealing pupils?

Sessions are one-to-one online with a shared whiteboard. A programme begins with a short diagnostic in each GCSE against the pupil's own school and exam board, so English Language and English Literature each have their own baseline. The tutor then works through the pupil's past papers and marks them against the real mark scheme. Progress is reviewed against the pupil's own target grade at agreed intervals, and session notes go to parents after each lesson.

A pupil can take one GCSE or both. Where the two sit apart, as at Ark Acton Academy (54% in Language and 65% in Literature at grade 4 or above, from 115 and 112 entries), the programme starts with the weaker. Where they sit together, as at Brentside High School (64% and 65%, from 270 and 270 entries), it can run both from the first week. Exam boards differ between schools, so the tutor confirms the board before teaching a single text; the GCSE English tuition page covers the boards.

Our English Language tutoring service and English Literature tutoring service give the wider picture, the Ealing tuition hub lists every Ealing page, and GCSE maths tutors in Ealing reads the maths table in the same way. 91% of Leading Tuition students achieve their desired grades.

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