GCSE Chemistry Tutor Kingston upon Thames: Grades 2026

Leading Tuition's GCSE Chemistry tutors in Kingston upon Thames are expert one-to-one online teachers who plan each pupil's lessons around grade 7 and grade 9, because DfE's provisional summer 2026 data puts 887 of 888 separate Chemistry entries at grade 4 or above across the 11 Kingston schools with 30 or more entries, and 738 at grade 7 or above.

Kingston upon Thames means the London borough, DfE's local authority 314. DfE's GCSE (9-1) full-course table lists 12 Kingston schools with Chemistry entries; this page reads the 11 with 30 or more, which hold 888 entries beside 2,042 pupils at the end of Key Stage 4. The twelfth, Chessington School, has 18 entries beside 120 pupils.

How many pupils at each Kingston school are entered for separate GCSE Chemistry?

Each row below is one school's GCSE (9-1) Chemistry entries in summer 2026 beside the number of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 in the same school, both counts from DfE's school-level table. The last column divides one by the other: entries per 100 pupils is our own ratio of two DfE counts and a count of entries, with no verdict on any school.

The Tiffin Girls' School has 177 Chemistry entries beside 177 pupils and Tiffin School 176 beside 180. Surbiton High School has 114 beside 185 and The Kingston Academy 90 beside 209. At Tolworth Girls' School and Sixth Form the 56 entries sit beside 239 pupils, at Coombe Girls' School 57 beside 241, and at Coombe Boys' School 33 beside 176. Across the 11 schools the 888 entries sit beside 2,042 pupils.

These rows count entries in the single-subject GCSE (9-1) Chemistry qualification, DfE's full-course qualification code AHDJG. Pupils who sit Combined Science are entered for a different qualification, so their entries are not in the table. A tutor reading a school's row therefore learns how many of that school's pupils sit the separate Chemistry papers, and nothing about the rest of the year group's science.

Which grades separate the 11 Kingston schools, when grade 4 and above is 98% or more at every one?

The table below gives DfE's own grade counts. Grades 1 to 3 are added together because the only entry below grade 4 in the 11 schools is a single grade 3; DfE's U and X grade codes are zero at all 11. Each row sums to the school's entries.

The 11 schools together hold 887 entries at grade 4 or above, 738 at grade 7 or above and 393 at grade 9. Those are our own sums of DfE's grade counts, which makes 99.9% of the 888 entries at grade 4+, 83.1% at grade 7+ and 44.3% at grade 9. Coombe Girls' School has 56 of 57 entries at grade 4+ (98.2%), the one entry below being at grade 3; at the other ten schools the grade 4+ count equals the entries. The next table gives the grade 7+ and grade 9 sums school by school, each beside the school's entries.

Grade 7+ counts run from 22 of 50 entries at Southborough High School (44.0%) and 22 of 49 at The Holy Cross School (44.9%) to 103 of 114 at Surbiton High School (90.4%), 170 of 176 at Tiffin School (96.6%) and 171 of 177 at The Tiffin Girls' School (96.6%). Grade 9 counts run from 4 of 49 at The Holy Cross School and 6 of 50 at Southborough High School to 34 of 90 at The Kingston Academy, 55 of 114 at Surbiton High School, 113 of 176 at Tiffin School and 121 of 177 at The Tiffin Girls' School.

In words, the grade 9 share is higher at The Tiffin Girls' School (68.4%) than at Surbiton High School (48.2%), and higher at Surbiton High School than at The Kingston Academy (37.8%) or Coombe Girls' School (42.1%). Coombe Boys' School has 29 of its 33 entries at grade 7 or above (87.9%), a higher grade 7+ share than The Hollyfield School and Sixth Form Centre (33 of 45, 73.3%), and 6 at grade 9 (18.2%).

Does one Kingston range hide the three schools GIAS lists as selective?

A single Kingston figure pools schools with different admissions policies. The Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register, read on 3 November 2026, gives the admissions policy 'Selective' for The Tiffin Girls' School, Tiffin School and Surbiton High School, and 'Non-selective' for the other eight schools in the table; it lists Surbiton High School's establishment type as 'Other independent school'. The sums below split the 888 entries on that GIAS field and nothing else.

The three schools GIAS records as selective hold 467 of the 888 entries (52.6%), with 444 at grade 7 or above (95.1%) and 289 at grade 9 (61.9%). The other eight hold 421 entries, with 294 at grade 7 or above (69.8%) and 104 at grade 9 (24.7%), and 420 of their 421 entries are at grade 4 or above (99.8%). The pooled 83.1% at grade 7+ sits between the two group shares and is the share of neither group.

What does one-to-one online Chemistry tuition start from at each school?

Sessions are one-to-one online on a shared whiteboard. A programme opens with a short diagnostic against the pupil's own exam board and latest mock paper, then works through past papers marked against the real mark scheme, with session notes sent to parents after each lesson.

A school's row shapes the first questions a tutor asks, not the plan itself. At Southborough High School the 50 entries split into 7 at grade 4, 12 at grade 5, 9 at grade 6, 5 at grade 7, 11 at grade 8 and 6 at grade 9, so 28 sit at grades 4 to 6 and 22 at grade 7 or above. At The Holy Cross School, 27 of 49 entries are at grades 5 and 6 and 22 at grade 7 or above; at Tolworth Girls' School and Sixth Form, 15 of 56 are at grade 6 and 39 at grade 7 or above. Where the counts gather at grades 5 and 6, the work is the step from 6 to 7. At The Tiffin Girls' School, 161 of 177 entries are at grade 8 or 9, and the work is the marks between an 8 and a 9.

The tutor then asks which specification the pupil has been entered for, how the latest mock paper marked out and which topics lost the marks, and builds the programme from those answers. GCSE Chemistry is set by AQA, Pearson Edexcel and OCR; our GCSE Chemistry tuition page covers the boards, and our Chemistry tutoring service gives the wider picture. For the same borough, our GCSE Biology tutors in Kingston upon Thames page reads DfE's summer 2026 counts for separate Biology, and our GCSE maths tutors in Kingston upon Thames and GCSE English tutors in Kingston upon Thames pages do the same for those subjects. GCSE tuition in Kingston upon Thames covers the borough's GCSE offer, pupils carrying Chemistry into the sixth form can continue with A-level Chemistry tutors in Kingston upon Thames, and the Kingston upon Thames tutoring hub lists every Kingston page. 91% of Leading Tuition students achieve their desired grades.

How should a family read these provisional Kingston Chemistry counts?

DfE labels the release provisional: its Key stage 4 performance release for 2025/26, published on 15 October 2026, says approved result amendments that schools requested have not been applied. The Chemistry table is DfE dataset version 2.0, and this page read it on 3 November 2026.

No Progress 8 exists for these pupils: DfE says it is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for 2024/25 and 2025/26, because no Key Stage 2 prior attainment data exists for these cohorts, and in April 2024 the previous government announced no replacement progress measure for those two years. Nothing here measures how much a school added to a pupil's grade.

Chessington School, with 18 Chemistry entries beside 120 pupils, is not in the tables. The grade 4+, grade 7+ and grade 9 counts, the group sums and the entries-per-100-pupils ratio are our own derivations from DfE's rows, and each school's row says how many entries and pupils the counts rest on.

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