GCSE Statistics Tutors in Leicester: the Five Schools That Entered It in 2024/25

GCSE Statistics is an optional extra GCSE, chosen school by school and sat alongside GCSE Maths rather than instead of it. Of the 29 Leicester schools carrying a 2024/25 GCSE Maths entry row in DfE’s school-level exam data, five have a published GCSE Statistics entry row. Those five account for 60 entries, against 4,360 GCSE Maths pupil entries across Leicester — about one Statistics entry for every 73 in Maths.

The five are Fullhurst Community College, Sir Jonathan North Girls’ College, Tudor Grange Samworth Academy, English Martyrs’ Catholic School and Millgate School, a special school. They are every Leicester school with a published GCSE Statistics entry row, and their entries add to exactly the 60 DfE publishes for Leicester as a whole — an agreement that supports the list without, by itself, proving nothing was left out.

Which Leicester Schools Entered GCSE Statistics in 2024/25, and How Many Pupils Each

DfE publishes subject entries school by school for 2024/25. Queried for Leicester, GCSE Statistics returns five rows and no others.

Source: DfE, Subject school level exam data, 2024/25, GCSE (9-1) Full Course, total exam entries, local authority E06000016.

Tudor Grange Samworth Academy has the largest entry relative to its year group, 15 against a cohort of 123, and it is an all-through school, which is why that cohort is small beside its total roll. English Martyrs’ has two entries, which is a literal count rather than a rounded one — DfE publishes school entry totals as low as one, and 283 schools in England publish exactly that. Every figure in that column is an exam entry, which is what DfE counts at school level, not a headcount of pupils.

Millgate School is a state-funded special school and its two entries sit inside the Leicester total of 60, so that total is not a count across mainstream secondaries. All five schools were open in DfE’s Get Information about Schools register on 17 September 2026.

Two schools need naming for accuracy rather than for entries. New College Leicester appears in the 2024/25 key stage 4 data with 205 pupils and has no GCSE Statistics entry row; it closed on 30 April 2025 and has operated as The Herewoode Academy since 1 May 2025, on the same Glenfield Road site and under the same DfE establishment number 856/4005. Brook Mead Academy, which opened on 31 August 2021, had no Year 11 cohort in 2024/25 and returns no row at all, so it sits outside this comparison rather than among the schools with no Statistics row.

How Five School Rows Add to Exactly the 60 Entries DfE Publishes for Leicester

DfE publishes these figures twice and the two agree. The local authority data set gives Leicester 60 GCSE Statistics pupil entries in 2024/25. The school-level data set returns five Leicester rows: 26 plus 15 plus 15 plus 2 plus 2. That is 60.

The direct evidence is the query, not the sum. Asked for Statistics in Leicester at school level, with no filter on qualification type and none on grade, the file returns rows for five schools and no others. That enumerates every Leicester school with a published GCSE Statistics entry row for the year. The matching total is corroboration on top of it: if a sixth state-funded school had a row the two data sets did not both account for, the authority figure would be the place it showed up — on the two series’ own terms, one counting pupil entries and the other exam entries.

The agreement is consistent with the list being complete; it does not prove it, because the two files need not be built on the same basis, as the Mathematics figures below show. So the honest statement about the other seventeen state-funded Leicester schools with a GCSE Maths entry row that year is that DfE publishes no GCSE Statistics entry row for any of them, which is what the data says, rather than that none of them entered a single pupil, which is an inference from it.

Two further limits belong with it. The first is that it says nothing about Leicester’s independent schools: the local authority total does not cover them, so the honest statement there is that DfE publishes no GCSE Statistics entry row for any Leicester independent school. The second is that the two data sets count slightly different things — the local authority series counts total pupil entries and the school series counts total exam entries. For Statistics they coincide at 60. For Mathematics they do not: the state-funded Leicester school rows come to 4,362 exam entries against 4,360 pupil entries at authority level, and DfE publishes no footnote in this release reconciling the two, so this page states both figures and offers no explanation for the gap.

Why 60 Entries Against 4,360 GCSE Maths Entries Puts Leicester Below the England Rate

An entry count on its own says little, because a big authority out-enters a small one whatever the local appetite. Set against the same authority’s GCSE Maths entries in the same year, Leicester runs well under the national rate.

Source: DfE, Subject pupil level local authority data, 2024/25. The right-hand column is this page’s arithmetic from the two raw counts, not a DfE figure.

Leicester’s rate is 1.4% of its GCSE Maths entries against England’s 5.2%, so the national rate is roughly 3.8 times the local one. The same gap shows in how many schools bother at all: 5 of Leicester’s 29 schools with a Maths entry row, against 1,067 of 4,428 across England, which is 17% locally and 24% nationally. Both counts include independent and special schools, and both are counts of schools with a GCSE Mathematics entry row, so the two sides are measured the same way.

That denominator needs defining, because it is not every school in the file. Thirty Leicester schools have a GCSE Full Course entry row of some kind in 2024/25 and twenty-nine of them have a Mathematics row. The thirtieth is Leicester High School for Girls, an independent school whose thirteen subject rows run from English Language to Arabic with no Mathematics row among them and no Statistics row either. Every count on this page means schools with a Maths entry row.

Say entries, not pupils. A pupil entered for both subjects is counted in both totals, and the authority figures include a special school, so this is a ratio of entries and not a share of Leicester children taking Statistics. What it does establish is that a Leicester family is unusually unlikely to meet this qualification through their own school at all.

What Leicester’s Seven-Year Entry Series Shows, and What the Two Pandemic Years Cannot

DfE publishes Leicester GCSE Statistics entries back to 2018/19. The figure is lower in 2022/23 than it was in 2018/19, and then rises once and stays there.

Source: DfE, Subject pupil level local authority data, local authority E06000016, total pupil entries.

Leicester recorded 28 entries in 2018/19 and 18 in 2022/23. Both years sit outside the window where DfE changed its discounting rule, so comparing them is like for like: a fall of 10 across four years. The path between them — 25, 22, 19 — is a different matter, because three of those four steps touch 2019/20 or 2020/21, for the reason set out below, so the year-by-year shape across the middle of the series cannot be read as a trend. What follows 2022/23 is clean: a single step to 59, then 60. It is not a gradual recovery and it is not a zigzag. The step sits between 2022/23 and 2023/24, and it is worth being plain about what cannot be said about it: DfE publishes school-level subject data for 2024/25 only, so there is no published way to show which Leicester school or schools started entering pupils, and this page does not guess.

The two pandemic years carry a caveat that has nothing to do with grading. DfE’s key stage 4 methodology records “the return of first entry discounting rules after the use of best entry discounting in 2019/20 and 2020/21” — the rule deciding which of a pupil’s entries counts was different in exactly those two years. The same methodology states that “2020 and 2021 data should not be compared to previous years’ attainment data for the purposes of measuring changes in pupil performance”, and the 2024/25 release notes that GCSE exams were cancelled for both years and replaced by centre assessed grades and teacher assessed grades.

So no line is drawn through 2019/20 or 2020/21 here. Nothing above needs them: the step change falls two years clear of that window, and the five-year decline is visible with or without the two affected points. On the other side of the question, DfE’s data guidance for this release states that “no suppression has been applied above school level”, so Leicester’s 18 and 19 are real counts rather than rounded or masked ones. The lowest figure in the city’s series is 18, so the problem of reading a suppressed small number never arises for Leicester at all.

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If Your Child Is at One of the Seventeen State-Funded Leicester Schools With No GCSE Statistics Entry Row

Twenty-two state-funded Leicester schools carry a 2024/25 GCSE Maths entry row; five of them are the schools above, so seventeen are left. They are Rushey Mead Academy, Soar Valley College, Crown Hills Community College, The City of Leicester College, Babington Academy, Castle Mead Academy, Judgemeadow Community College, Orchard Mead Academy, Beaumont Leys School, Lancaster Academy, Moat Community College, Avanti Fields School, St Paul’s Catholic School, Madani Girls’ School, Madani Boys School, New College Leicester (The Herewoode Academy from 1 May 2025) and Keyham Lodge School, which is a special school. Each carries a GCSE Maths entry row for that year and no GCSE Statistics row.

That is a statement about entries in one year, not a verdict on a school. A school can teach a subject and enter nobody, or start the course after the year this data covers. The route that exists regardless is the private-candidate one: both boards assess GCSE Statistics entirely by written examination with no coursework, which is what makes an external entry practical in a way it is not for a subject with a controlled assessment. Our national GCSE Statistics guide sets out the private-candidate and new-centre rules in full, quoted from the boards’ own documents, and this page does not restate them.

One Leicester school publishes its board. Fullhurst Community College’s 2026/27 key stage 4 course list names “GCSE Statistics (Edexcel)” in both its Year 10 and Year 11 columns, under a heading describing the list as all the courses studied in those two years. That is a first-party statement about one school, and it is not evidence about the other four — nothing Sir Jonathan North, Tudor Grange Samworth or English Martyrs’ publishes names the course or a board either way. For the specification Fullhurst names, our Edexcel GCSE Statistics (1ST0) page covers the two papers, the formulae given by tier and the grade boundaries.

Leicester’s wider GCSE Maths picture — the city’s attainment, its named schools and its grade thresholds — is on our GCSE Maths tutors in Leicester page.

GCSE Statistics Is Not One of the Five EBacc Subject Areas, and Why That Shapes an Options Block

DfE’s EBacc guidance lists the measure’s five subject areas in its own words: “English language and literature, maths, the sciences, geography or history, a language”. Statistics appears in none of them, and the guidance adds that to count towards the measure “qualifications must be included in the approved list of the qualifications”. A school entering a pupil for GCSE Statistics therefore gains nothing on its EBacc measure by doing so.

The list is published as a workbook, and it settles the point more directly. The maths sheet of DfE’s 2026 EBacc key stage 4 qualifications list, last updated on 18 June 2026, carries four GCSE qualifications and all four are GCSE Mathematics — OCR’s, AQA’s, Pearson Edexcel’s and WJEC Eduqas’s. The word Statistics does not appear anywhere in the workbook, on any of its eight sheets.

That is the pressure an optional extra GCSE sits under, and it is worth stating plainly rather than implying. An options block has a fixed number of slots; a subject that counts towards a headline measure competes for them on different terms from one that does not. In Leicester 40.2% of pupils at the end of key stage 4 entered the EBacc combination in 2024/25, with an EBacc average point score of 4.02. Neither figure explains any individual school’s decision, and this page does not claim it does — DfE publishes no data on why a school offers a subject.

That accountability argument is changing, and DfE says so inside the workbook. Its overview sheet states that “from academic year 2025 to 2026 onwards, English Baccalaureate (EBacc) headline and additional measures are being removed from key stage 4 performance measures”, and in the same note that “this list of EBacc qualifications still determines whether qualifications are eligible for inclusion in some of the Progress 8 and Attainment 8 slots”. The measures go; the list keeps its hold on part of what replaces them. What does not change is the practical position for a family: GCSE Statistics is a full GCSE, graded 9 to 1, and where it is available it is taken as an additional subject rather than as a substitute for GCSE Maths. Our AQA GCSE Statistics (8382) page covers what that looks like paper by paper.

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