DfE's provisional summer 2026 English Language and English Literature grades for 12 Kingston upon Thames schools, counted separately.
Book a Free ConsultationLeading Tuition's GCSE English tutors in Kingston upon Thames are expert one-to-one online teachers who plan each pupil's lessons around the weaker of English Language and English Literature. DfE's provisional summer 2026 counts for the 12 Kingston schools with 30 or more entries put grade 4+ in Language between 71.6% and 100% and in Literature between 66.9% and 100%.
Kingston upon Thames means the London borough, DfE's local authority 314. DfE's GCSE (9-1) full-course table lists 15 Kingston schools under English Language and 14 under English Literature, and the 12 read here have 30 or more entries in each.
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Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppThe table gives DfE's English Language grade counts for the 12 Kingston schools with 30 or more entries, in order of the number of entries, which is not a ranking. Grades 9 to 1 are DfE's counts of entries at each grade; U and X are DfE's own columns. Grade 4+ and grade 7+ are the shares of entries at grades 4 to 9 and 7 to 9, calculated here from those counts. The source is DfE's Key stage 4 performance release for 2025/26, which DfE labels provisional.
English Language, GCSE (9-1) full course, summer 2026, provisional
| School | Entries | Pupils | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | U | X | Grade 4+ | Grade 7+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coombe Girls' School | 237 | 241 | 16 | 30 | 39 | 51 | 50 | 20 | 20 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 86.9% | 35.9% |
| Tolworth Girls' School and Sixth Form | 237 | 239 | 13 | 25 | 39 | 55 | 50 | 24 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 86.9% | 32.5% |
| The Kingston Academy | 207 | 209 | 23 | 39 | 29 | 50 | 33 | 19 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 93.2% | 44.0% |
| Tiffin School | 180 | 180 | 40 | 60 | 56 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | 86.7% |
| The Tiffin Girls' School | 177 | 177 | 104 | 55 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | 98.9% |
| The Hollyfield School and Sixth Form Centre | 176 | 176 | 8 | 16 | 21 | 34 | 28 | 27 | 31 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 76.1% | 25.6% |
| Coombe Boys' School | 175 | 176 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 40 | 35 | 34 | 23 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 79.4% | 17.1% |
| Richard Challoner School | 160 | 160 | 3 | 18 | 34 | 49 | 21 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 88.8% | 34.4% |
| The Holy Cross School | 151 | 151 | 6 | 11 | 24 | 39 | 34 | 24 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 91.4% | 27.2% |
| Southborough High School | 148 | 148 | 0 | 11 | 17 | 28 | 28 | 22 | 25 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 71.6% | 18.9% |
| Chessington School | 118 | 120 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 27 | 23 | 26 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 73.7% | 9.3% |
| Kingston Grammar School | 116 | 116 | 52 | 26 | 23 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | 87.1% |
Southborough High School has 106 of 148 Language entries at grade 4 or above, 71.6%, and Chessington School 87 of 118, 73.7%. Kingston Grammar School, The Tiffin Girls' School and Tiffin School have every entry at grade 4 or above: 116, 177 and 180 entries. Between those groups sit The Hollyfield School and Sixth Form Centre at 76.1% of 176 entries, Coombe Boys' School at 79.4% of 175, Coombe Girls' School and Tolworth Girls' School and Sixth Form at 206 of 237 entries each (86.9%), Richard Challoner School at 88.8% of 160, The Holy Cross School at 91.4% of 151 and The Kingston Academy at 93.2% of 207.
The Pupils column is DfE's count of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4. At every one of the 12 schools the Language entry count is within 4 of that figure, from equal at Kingston Grammar School (116 and 116) to 237 entries against 241 pupils at Coombe Girls' School.
English Literature is a separate GCSE with its own entries, so it has its own table. The columns are the same as above.
English Literature, GCSE (9-1) full course, summer 2026, provisional
| School | Entries | Pupils | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | U | X | Grade 4+ | Grade 7+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coombe Girls' School | 232 | 241 | 17 | 30 | 42 | 42 | 55 | 21 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 89.2% | 38.4% |
| Tolworth Girls' School and Sixth Form | 231 | 239 | 17 | 33 | 34 | 55 | 45 | 21 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 88.7% | 36.4% |
| The Kingston Academy | 203 | 209 | 31 | 34 | 35 | 46 | 28 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 95.1% | 49.3% |
| Tiffin School | 180 | 180 | 34 | 52 | 39 | 36 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 99.4% | 69.4% |
| The Tiffin Girls' School | 177 | 177 | 114 | 43 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | 95.5% |
| Coombe Boys' School | 175 | 176 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 82.9% | 17.7% |
| The Hollyfield School and Sixth Form Centre | 171 | 176 | 6 | 15 | 24 | 21 | 46 | 25 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 80.1% | 26.3% |
| Richard Challoner School | 159 | 160 | 4 | 12 | 34 | 39 | 35 | 19 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 89.9% | 31.4% |
| The Holy Cross School | 151 | 151 | 6 | 15 | 28 | 29 | 34 | 21 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 88.1% | 32.5% |
| Southborough High School | 148 | 148 | 1 | 14 | 14 | 25 | 25 | 24 | 21 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 69.6% | 19.6% |
| Chessington School | 118 | 120 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 26 | 24 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 66.9% | 7.6% |
| Kingston Grammar School | 114 | 116 | 37 | 29 | 38 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | 91.2% |
Chessington School has 79 of 118 Literature entries at grade 4 or above, 66.9%, and Southborough High School 103 of 148, 69.6%. The Tiffin Girls' School has 177 of 177 and Kingston Grammar School 114 of 114, both 100.0%; Tiffin School has 179 of 180 (99.4%), with 1 entry below grade 4. The other seven schools run from 80.1% at The Hollyfield School and Sixth Form Centre (171 entries) through 82.9% at Coombe Boys' School (175), 88.1% at The Holy Cross School (151), 88.7% at Tolworth Girls' School and Sixth Form (231), 89.2% at Coombe Girls' School (232) and 89.9% at Richard Challoner School (159) to 95.1% at The Kingston Academy (203).
Literature entries fall further below the pupil count than Language entries do. Coombe Girls' School has 232 entries against 241 pupils, Tolworth Girls' School and Sixth Form 231 against 239, The Kingston Academy 203 against 209 and The Hollyfield School and Sixth Form Centre 171 against 176.
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Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppThe table sets each school's Language share beside its Literature share, in alphabetical order, with the difference in percentage points. The difference column names the subject whose share is higher.
| School | Language 4+ | Literature 4+ | Difference in points | Language 7+ | Literature 7+ | Difference in points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chessington School | 73.7% | 66.9% | 6.8 higher in Language | 9.3% | 7.6% | 1.7 higher in Language |
| Coombe Boys' School | 79.4% | 82.9% | 3.5 higher in Literature | 17.1% | 17.7% | 0.6 higher in Literature |
| Coombe Girls' School | 86.9% | 89.2% | 2.3 higher in Literature | 35.9% | 38.4% | 2.5 higher in Literature |
| Kingston Grammar School | 100.0% | 100.0% | 0.0 (equal) | 87.1% | 91.2% | 4.1 higher in Literature |
| Richard Challoner School | 88.8% | 89.9% | 1.1 higher in Literature | 34.4% | 31.4% | 3.0 higher in Language |
| Southborough High School | 71.6% | 69.6% | 2.0 higher in Language | 18.9% | 19.6% | 0.7 higher in Literature |
| The Hollyfield School and Sixth Form Centre | 76.1% | 80.1% | 4.0 higher in Literature | 25.6% | 26.3% | 0.7 higher in Literature |
| The Holy Cross School | 91.4% | 88.1% | 3.3 higher in Language | 27.2% | 32.5% | 5.3 higher in Literature |
| The Kingston Academy | 93.2% | 95.1% | 1.9 higher in Literature | 44.0% | 49.3% | 5.3 higher in Literature |
| The Tiffin Girls' School | 100.0% | 100.0% | 0.0 (equal) | 98.9% | 95.5% | 3.4 higher in Language |
| Tiffin School | 100.0% | 99.4% | 0.6 higher in Language | 86.7% | 69.4% | +17.3 |
| Tolworth Girls' School and Sixth Form | 86.9% | 88.7% | 1.8 higher in Literature | 32.5% | 36.4% | 3.9 higher in Literature |
At grade 4 or above, the Language share is higher than the Literature share at 4 of the 12 schools (Chessington School by 6.8 points, The Holy Cross School by 3.3, Southborough High School by 2.0 and Tiffin School by 0.6), equal at 2 (Kingston Grammar School and The Tiffin Girls' School, both 100.0%) and lower at 6. The largest Literature lead at grade 4 or above is 4.0 points at The Hollyfield School and Sixth Form Centre.
At grade 7 or above the picture changes. Language is higher at 4 schools (Tiffin School by 17.3 points, The Tiffin Girls' School by 3.4, Richard Challoner School by 3.0 and Chessington School by 1.7) and Literature is higher at the other 8, by up to 5.3 points at The Holy Cross School and The Kingston Academy.
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Three Kingston schools have all or all but one of their entries at grade 4 or above in both subjects, so that column cannot separate them. Grade 7+ and grade 9 can. In English Language, Kingston Grammar School has 101 of 116 entries at grade 7 or above (87.1%) and 52 at grade 9, The Tiffin Girls' School has 175 of 177 (98.9%) and 104 at grade 9, and Tiffin School has 156 of 180 (86.7%) and 40 at grade 9. In English Literature, the three have 104 of 114 (91.2%) with 37 at grade 9, 169 of 177 (95.5%) with 114 at grade 9 and 125 of 180 (69.4%) with 34 at grade 9.
The nine other schools run from 9.3% to 44.0% at grade 7 or above in Language and from 7.6% to 49.3% in Literature. Their grade 9 counts run from 0 to 23 in Language and from 1 to 31 in Literature.
Separately, each of the three schools' own admissions pages describes its Year 7 entry, and these describe entry, not results. Tiffin School's Year 7 admissions page, for September 2027 entry, lists Stage One tests on 2 October 2026 and illustrative questions for English and Maths tests. The Tiffin Girls' School's Year 7 admissions page, for September 2027 entry, lists a Stage One test on 1 and 2 October 2026. Kingston Grammar School's 11+ admissions page, which names September 2027 entry, describes entrance assessments of two papers: English (comprehension and creative writing) for 50 minutes and Mathematics for 50 minutes.
Our Tiffin School 11+ tuition and Tiffin Girls' School 11+ tuition pages cover preparation for that entry, and the Tiffin School 11+ guide for 2026 covers the test and dates.
The papers below are AQA's. Kingston schools enter pupils with the exam board they choose, so confirm your child's board before lessons are planned; our GCSE English Language tuition and GCSE English Literature tuition pages cover the other boards.
On AQA's English Language (8700) specification, Paper 1 (Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing) and Paper 2 (Writers' Viewpoints and Perspectives) each last 1 hour 45 minutes, carry 80 marks and count for 50% of the GCSE. In each paper the reading questions carry 40 marks (25%) and the writing task 40 marks (25%). The spoken language endorsement is marked by the teacher and has a 0% weighting.
On AQA's English Literature (8702) specification, Paper 1 (Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel) lasts 1 hour 45 minutes, carries 64 marks and counts for 40%. Paper 2 (modern texts and poetry, with an unseen poetry question) lasts 2 hours 15 minutes, carries 96 marks and counts for 60%.
The weightings decide how lesson time is spent. A pupil whose Language share is the lower of the two works on two papers of equal weight, each split between reading and writing. A pupil whose Literature share is lower works on a Shakespeare play, a 19th-century novel, a modern text and the poetry anthology, with the larger paper carrying 60%. Pupils who passed one English GCSE and not the other can read our guide on failing English Language but passing Literature.
Our expert GCSE English tutors teach Kingston pupils one-to-one online, whichever AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR or Eduqas papers their school has entered, and plan each pupil's lessons from their own mock results.
Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppSessions are one-to-one online with a shared whiteboard. A programme begins with a short diagnostic in English Language and in English Literature, set against the pupil's own school and exam board, then works through that 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.
The Kingston schools in the tables above sit in Kingston upon Thames, and our GCSE tuition in Kingston upon Thames and GCSE maths tutors in Kingston upon Thames pages cover the other GCSE subjects. Pupils continuing to sixth form can read about A-level English tutors in Kingston upon Thames. 91% of Leading Tuition students achieve their desired grades.
No Progress 8 exists for these pupils: DfE states that it is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for 2024/25 and 2025/26 because no Key Stage 2 prior attainment data is available for those cohorts. Nothing here measures how much a school added to a pupil's grade.
The shares are for a whole year group and say nothing about a single child. A pupil's own mock papers and teacher feedback in English Language and in English Literature are the starting point for a plan, and a short diagnostic against the pupil's own exam board is how a tutor reads them.
No. DfE published the figures on 15 October 2026 and labels the release provisional: it is based on the results data that awarding organisations supply to the department. This page reads DfE dataset version 2.0, retrieved on 31 October 2026, and counts 12 Kingston schools with 30 or more entries in each of English Language and English Literature, so a school's counts can change if DfE revises them.
No. They are two separate GCSEs with separate entries and separate grades, and DfE publishes them as separate subjects. Chessington School shows the difference: of 118 entries in each subject, 73.7% reached grade 4 or above in English Language and 66.9% in English Literature. Every table on this page is labelled with its subject and the two are never added together.
Grade 4+ is the share of a school's entries at grades 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9; grade 7+ is the share at grades 7, 8 and 9. Both are calculated here from DfE's grade counts, with every entry in the subject as the base, including entries graded U or recorded as X. At Southborough High School, 106 of 148 Language entries are at grade 4 or above, which is 71.6%.
DfE's GCSE (9-1) full-course table lists 15 Kingston schools under English Language. Twelve have 30 or more entries and are read here. The other three are named only by DfE's entry count: Canbury School has 10 entries in English Language, St Philip's School has 6, and Surbiton High School has 1 entry against 185 pupils at the end of Key Stage 4. An entry count says nothing about a school.
Language and Literature differ by school and in both directions. The share at grade 4 or above is higher in Language at 4 of the 12 schools, equal at 2 (both 100.0%) and higher in Literature at 6. At grade 7 or above the largest difference is Tiffin School, at 86.7% in Language and 69.4% in Literature, a gap of 17.3 percentage points. A programme is planned from whichever of the two is lower for that pupil.
AQA's English Language (8700) has two written papers, each 1 hour 45 minutes, 80 marks and 50% of the GCSE, plus a spoken language endorsement with 0% weighting. AQA's English Literature (8702) has Paper 1 at 1 hour 45 minutes, 64 marks and 40%, and Paper 2 at 2 hours 15 minutes, 96 marks and 60%. Confirm your child's board with their school before lessons are planned.
A family books a free consultation through the button on this page or by WhatsApp. The first step is a short diagnostic in English Language and in English Literature, set against the pupil's own school and exam board. Lessons are one-to-one online with a shared whiteboard, each pupil works through past papers marked against the real mark scheme, and session notes go to parents after each lesson.
DfE counts entries, not pupils, and this table covers one qualification, GCSE (9-1) full course. The Pupils column is DfE's count of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4. At The Kingston Academy it is 209 pupils against 207 English Language entries and 203 English Literature entries, and at Surbiton High School it is 185 pupils against 1 entry.
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