GCSE Chemistry Tutor Guildford: 2026 Grades, School by School

Leading Tuition's GCSE Chemistry tutors in Guildford are expert one-to-one online teachers who start from each pupil's own school, because DfE's provisional summer 2026 table lists 504 separate GCSE Chemistry entries at the ten schools of Guildford borough, from 18 at Cranmore to 112 at George Abbot School.

Guildford borough means GIAS district Guildford; DfE's local authority is Surrey. Those ten schools have 1,615 pupils at the end of Key Stage 4, and each school's entries are set beside its own cohort below.

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

DfE's table counts GCSE (9-1) Chemistry as a qualification of its own. A pupil who takes Combined Science (Double Award) is entered for a different qualification, so that pupil does not appear in these rows. For that reason the table below sets each school's Chemistry entries beside DfE's count of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4, the school's cohort. The last column divides one DfE count by the other; the division is ours, not a DfE measure, and it describes how many entries there are beside the cohort, not how any school teaches.

Across the ten schools there are 504 Chemistry entries beside a combined cohort of 1,615 pupils. The division runs from 21% at Christ's College, Guildford (25 entries beside 118 pupils) to 38% at Guildford County School (69 entries beside 182 pupils). The largest entry counts are 112 at George Abbot School and 81 at Ash Manor School; the smallest are 18 at Cranmore and 18 at Prior's Field School.

Read in pairs, the table gives ten different starting points. Kings College Guildford has 26 Chemistry entries beside a cohort of 120. St Teresa's School has 27 beside 81. Howard of Effingham School has 65 beside 237, and St Peter's Catholic School has 63 beside 210. At Cranmore the 18 entries sit beside a cohort of 57, and at Prior's Field School the 18 entries sit beside 80.

These are entries, so the table says nothing about a pupil's own tier, exam board or working grade. It says how large the Chemistry group is at the school a child attends,; those are the Chemistry group sizes at the ten schools. George Abbot School has 112 entries and Christ's College, Guildford has 25.

What grades did Guildford's GCSE Chemistry entries receive in summer 2026?

DfE labels the release provisional. It was published on 15 October 2026, and any approved result amendments that schools requested have not been applied. The next table gives DfE's own count of entries at each grade, with U and X as DfE reports them. A blank cell in DfE's file is printed here as 0, because the grades 1 to 9, U and X add up to DfE's total entries at every one of the ten schools.

The next table adds the grade rows together. Grade 4 or above is the sum of the rows for grades 4 to 9, and grade 7 or above is the sum of the rows for grades 7 to 9. Both sums are our own addition of DfE's grade rows.

In seven schools every Chemistry entry is at grade 4 or above. Listed in alphabetical order, with no ranking implied, they are Cranmore (18 of 18), George Abbot School (112 of 112), Guildford County School (69 of 69), Kings College Guildford (26 of 26), Prior's Field School (18 of 18), St Peter's Catholic School (63 of 63) and St Teresa's School (27 of 27).

At those seven schools the grade 4 line does not separate one entry from another, so the counts at grade 7 and above carry the information: 14 of 18 at Cranmore, 75 of 112 at George Abbot School, 39 of 69 at Guildford County School, 16 of 26 at Kings College Guildford, 8 of 18 at Prior's Field School, 48 of 63 at St Peter's Catholic School and 19 of 27 at St Teresa's School.

Three schools have entries below grade 4. Ash Manor School has 75 of 81 at grade 4 or above, with 1 entry at grade 2 and 5 at grade 3. Christ's College, Guildford has 21 of 25 at grade 4 or above, with 2 entries at grade 3, 1 at U and 1 at X. Howard of Effingham School has 64 of 65 at grade 4 or above, with 1 entry at grade 2.

Grade 9 counts run from 21 at George Abbot School to 1 at Christ's College, Guildford: 21 at George Abbot School, 17 at St Peter's Catholic School, 15 at Guildford County School, 12 at Howard of Effingham School, 8 at St Teresa's School, 6 each at Ash Manor School and Prior's Field School, 4 at Cranmore, 3 at Kings College Guildford and 1 at Christ's College, Guildford. Where a school has 18 or 26 entries, one pupil moves the grade 9 count by a visible fraction of the group, so these counts are best read beside the entry totals in the first table.

Grade 7 and above entries sit at 5 of 25 at Christ's College, Guildford, 34 of 81 at Ash Manor School and 39 of 65 at Howard of Effingham School. Those are counts for the entries DfE records, and they are one summer's provisional rows.

What Parents Say

DP

Deborah Prior

★★★★★

Confidence and progress

My son was low in confidence after COVID and the gaps in learning were building up. Using this service helped plug those gaps, rebuild confidence, and improve his ability to learn properly again.

NI

Nicola

★★★★★

Amazing tutors!

We arranged maths and English tuition ahead of GCSEs and both tutors were brilliant. My daughter's grades improved, and by results day she achieved two grades higher than in her mock exams.

S

Saifan Khan

★★★★★

Great Teaching and Focused Learning

I attended an English bootcamp with Leading Tuition and the experience was excellent. The teacher gave focused attention to the small group while keeping the lessons interactive and engaging.

See more reviews on Trustpilot

Which schools count as Guildford, and what does Surrey's table add?

DfE's local authority for these schools is Surrey; Guildford is a borough inside it, not a DfE local authority of its own. Surrey's table lists 73 schools with GCSE (9-1) Chemistry rows and 3,394 Chemistry entries in total, the sum of the entry totals DfE gives for each school. The ten Guildford schools hold 504 of those entries, which is 14.8% (504 divided by 3,394). That division is arithmetic on DfE counts and is not a DfE figure. No county figure is used on this page as a stand-in for a Guildford school.

The cut from Surrey's table uses the GIAS administrative district field. The GIAS file read on 3 November 2026 gives Guildford as the district for ten of the schools in Surrey's Chemistry table, and each is matched to DfE's rows by URN. The postcode cross-check agrees: the postcodes.io district for each of the ten postcodes is Guildford.

A GU postcode does not settle it. Of the 29 schools in Surrey's Chemistry table with a GU postcode, 7 are in GIAS district Guildford, 13 are in Waverley, 5 are in Woking and 4 are in Surrey Heath. Three Guildford-district schools do not have a GU postcode: Cranmore and Howard of Effingham School are KT24, and St Teresa's School is RH5. Seven plus three gives the ten in the tables above.

The GIAS columns are the fields GIAS holds, quoted as they stand. GIAS lists Prior's Field School as Girls with an admissions policy of Selective, and St Teresa's School as Girls with an admissions policy of Not applicable. It lists the other eight as Mixed. This page draws no conclusion about any school's intake from these fields.

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. Nothing here measures how much a school added to a pupil's grade, and the Attainment 8 and average-points figures DfE gives for a whole school are not Chemistry figures, so none is used.

The source for every count above is DfE's Key stage 4 performance release for 2025/26, the subject school level exam data set (version 2.0), filtered to GCSE (9-1) Full Course Chemistry.

What does one-to-one online GCSE Chemistry tuition for a Guildford pupil involve?

Tuition runs one-to-one online with a shared whiteboard. A first call covers the pupil's working grade, the grade they need for the next step and their exam board. A short diagnostic against that exam board's papers follows, and the lessons then work through the pupil's own past papers, marked against the real mark scheme, with session notes shared with parents after each lesson.

The school's row is context for that plan, not a forecast for any pupil. A pupil at Guildford County School is one of 69 Chemistry entries in a cohort of 182, and a pupil at Kings College Guildford is one of 26 in a cohort of 120; in both schools the tutor still works from that pupil's own paper, topic by topic.

For pupils at the seven schools where every entry reached grade 4 or above, the first call sets the target grade from the pupil's own paper, and the grade 4, 7 and 9 table gives the counts at grade 7 and above for context. For pupils at Ash Manor School, Christ's College, Guildford and Howard of Effingham School, where the grade 4, 7 and 9 table shows entries below grade 4, the first call fixes the next grade the pupil needs and which topics hold it back.

Which other Guildford pages cover the same schools and subjects?

The same borough has its own pages for other subjects. The GCSE maths tutors in Guildford page reads DfE's maths table for the borough's schools, GCSE biology tutors in Guildford covers the separate Biology GCSE, and GCSE English tutors in Guildford covers English Language and Literature. For the sixth-form step after GCSE, see A-level Chemistry tutors in Guildford. The GCSE Chemistry subject guide covers the course itself, and tutoring across Guildford lists every Guildford page.

Frequently Asked Questions