GCSE Maths Tutor Islington: Grades at 11 Schools, 2026

Leading Tuition's GCSE maths tutors in Islington are expert one-to-one online teachers who set each pupil's target from the pupil's own school, because DfE's provisional summer 2026 results put grade 7 or above at 61.4% of entries at North Bridge House Senior Canonbury School (44 entries) and 6.5% at Beacon High (77 entries).

Islington is its own local authority, DfE's LA 206. DfE's GCSE (9-1) full-course table for maths lists 13 Islington schools. Eleven of them have 30 or more entries, and those eleven made 1,432 entries between them in summer 2026. The figures below are theirs, school by school.

Where does grade 7 start at each of Islington's 11 schools?

The table adds each school's grade 7, grade 8 and grade 9 rows and divides by its total entries. The cohort size sits beside every share, because 44 entries and 191 entries do not carry the same weight. Schools are listed from the highest share to the lowest, which is an ordering of figures and nothing more.

The spread between the first and last row is 54.9 percentage points. At North Bridge House Senior Canonbury School, 27 of 44 entries reached grade 7 or above. At St Mary Magdalene Academy it was 95 of 191, or 49.7%. At Beacon High it was 5 of 77.

Pooling the eleven schools gives 404 of 1,432 entries, or 28.2%, which is these schools' entries added together and not a borough figure. 7 of the 11 schools sit below it and 4 sit above, and the lowest school is 21.7 points under it. A single Islington average would leave a family at Beacon High or at St Mary Magdalene Academy with the wrong picture of their own school, so the target starts from the school's own row and then from the pupil's own paper.

How many entries reach grade 4 at each school?

Below grade 4 here means every entry that is not at grades 4 to 9, so it takes in grades 1, 2 and 3 and the entries DfE records as U or X. Every school's rows add up exactly to its total entries, which is how the counts below were checked.

North Bridge House Senior Canonbury School has 43 of 44 entries at grade 4 or above (97.7%), and Beacon High has 40 of 77 (51.9%). The pooled figure for the 11 schools is 1071 of 1,432, or 74.8%, which leaves 361 entries below grade 4.

The count of entries below grade 4 is the number a tutor's first term is built around. At City of London Academy Islington it is 50 of 148 entries (33.8%), and at Arts and Media School Islington it is 63 of 143 (44.1%). At St Mary Magdalene Academy it is 31 of 191 (16.2%), so even the school with the second-highest grade 7 share has pupils whose first target is a 4.

How many pupils reach grade 8 and grade 9?

St Mary Magdalene Academy recorded 41 grade 9 entries from 191. Across the 11 schools there are 105 grade 9 entries, so that one school holds 39.0% of them while making 13.3% of the entries. At Central Foundation Boys' School the grade 8 row is the larger one: 25 entries at grade 8 against 8 at grade 9.

Beacon High has 1 entry at grade 9 and 3 at grade 8. At the other ten schools the grade 9 count runs from 5 to 41. A pupil aiming at an 8 or 9 is working against a small number of examples at most of these schools, and the tutor's job is to supply the hardest papers and mark them against the real mark scheme.

What is the most common grade at each school, and what does that set as the target?

The most common grade is the single largest row in a school's table. It is a description of a year group, not of any one pupil, and each paragraph gives the cohort size first.

North Bridge House Senior Canonbury School (44 entries). Grade 7 is the largest row with 12 entries, followed by 8 at grade 8 and 7 at grade 9. Only 1 entry sits below grade 4. For a pupil here, the useful tutoring question is the step from a 6 or 7 to an 8 or 9, since 15 entries (34.1%) already reached it.

St Mary Magdalene Academy (191 entries). The largest row is grade 9 with 41 entries, then 28 at grade 8 and 26 at grade 7. The same table has 26 entries at grade 5, 22 at grade 4 and 31 below grade 4. The school's results run across the whole scale, so the plan for a pupil there depends on which end of the 191 entries the pupil is sitting in.

Central Foundation Boys' School (167 entries). Grade 5 is the largest row with 37 entries. Grade 7 has 27 and grade 8 has 25, so 60 entries (35.9%) reached grade 7 or above, and 25 entries sit below grade 4.

St Aloysius' College (57 entries). Grade 4 is the largest row with 14 entries, and grade 8 has 8, which is more than grade 7 (4). Of the 57 entries, 17 reached grade 7 or above (29.8%) and 12 sit below grade 4. With a cohort this size a single pupil moves a share by about 1.8 points, so the table is read as counts.

Highbury Fields School (136 entries). Grade 5 is the largest row with 34 entries and grade 4 follows with 28. 120 entries reached grade 4 or above (88.2%), the second-highest share at grade 4 or above of the 11, and 36 reached grade 7 or above. A tutor working with a pupil here is usually deciding between securing a 5 and pushing toward a 6 or 7.

City of London Academy, Highgate Hill (133 entries). Grade 5 is the largest row with 23 entries. The table shows 12 entries at U and 2 at X, and 40 entries in all below grade 4, against 34 at grade 7 or above (25.6%). The school's year group is wide, with 15 entries at grade 8 and 6 at grade 1.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School (174 entries). Grade 4 is the largest row with 37 entries, and grade 6 follows with 30. 134 entries reached grade 4 or above (77.0%) and 41 reached grade 7 or above. The school has the largest grade 6 row of the eleven, which makes the 6-to-7 step the one with the most pupils standing on it.

City of London Academy Highbury Grove (162 entries). Grade 4 is the largest row with 40 entries, the largest grade 4 row of the eleven. 46 entries sit below grade 4 (28.4%) and 38 reached grade 7 or above (23.5%). A pupil at a 4 here has 23 entries at grade 5 and 15 at grade 6 above them.

City of London Academy Islington (148 entries). Grade 5 is the largest row with 30 entries. 50 entries sit below grade 4, against 98 at grade 4 or above (66.2%), and 27 reached grade 7 or above. Grades 1, 2 and 3 hold 14, 15 and 13 entries, so the plan starts from the pupil's own paper and not from a school-wide assumption.

Arts and Media School Islington (143 entries). Grade 3 is the largest row with 24 entries, the only school of the eleven where the largest row is below grade 4. 63 of 143 entries sit below grade 4, against 80 at grade 4 or above (55.9%) and 24 at grade 7 or above (16.8%). At this school the first job of a tutor is usually the move from a 3 to a 4.

Beacon High (77 entries). Grade 4 is the largest row with 23 entries, and grade 2 follows with 13. 40 entries reached grade 4 or above (51.9%) and 5 reached grade 7 or above (6.5%). With 77 entries, each pupil is 1.3 points of a share, so the counts carry more information than the percentages.

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How does one-to-one online GCSE maths tuition start from the school's row?

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 exam board and latest mock paper. Sessions then run one-to-one online with a shared whiteboard, working through the pupil's own past papers and marking against the real mark scheme, with session notes shared with parents after each lesson. Because every session is online, the pupil's school is a fact to plan around and not a place the tutor has to reach.

The three tables above turn into three starting points, and the school's row says which is most common.

• Securing grade 4. This is the work at schools where many entries sit below it: 63 entries at Arts and Media School Islington, 50 at City of London Academy Islington and 37 at Beacon High. The tutor goes topic by topic through the gaps the diagnostic finds.
• Moving from 5 or 6 to 7. This is the work where the largest rows sit at grades 4 to 6, as at Highbury Fields School (34 entries at grade 5) and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School (30 at grade 6). The tutor spends time on multi-step problems and unfamiliar contexts.
• Reaching 8 or 9. This is the work at St Mary Magdalene Academy (69 entries at grade 8 or 9) and North Bridge House Senior Canonbury School (15). The tutor supplies the hardest papers and checks the pupil's working line by line.

The wider maths tutoring service and GCSE tuition pages describe the method, and Islington has its own hub. 91% of Leading Tuition students achieve their desired grades.

Which schools and figures does this page read?

The source is DfE's key stage 4 school-level subject table, dataset 1ae39901 on the Explore education statistics API, version 2.0, published on 15 October 2026 for the 2025/26 academic year. DfE states that the data in this release is provisional, so a school's counts can change when DfE next revises it. The page reads GCSE (9-1) full-course maths only, from DfE's key stage 4 performance release.

DfE's table lists 13 Islington schools. This page compares the 11 with 30 or more entries. The other two are outside the 30-entry cut and appear in DfE's table with a total row only: The Courtyard Islington with 2 entries and The Bridge Keystone with 4 entries. Neither is described beyond that total, because no grade rows are given for them. Grade 7 or above, grade 4 or above, and below grade 4 are sums of DfE's own grade rows, and every school's rows add to its total entries.

The same DfE table, read the same way for a different local authority, is on the Barnet GCSE maths tutors page. Leading Tuition's tutors teach pupils at any Islington school, including the two listed by total only, because every session is one-to-one and online.

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