GCSE Statistics Tutors in Liverpool

GCSE Statistics is an optional extra GCSE that Liverpool schools choose one by one, and for 2024/25 most of them published no GCSE Statistics entry at all. Of the 31 state-funded mainstream Liverpool schools in the Department for Education's school-level key stage 4 subject data, 11 published a GCSE Statistics entry and 20 published none. Across the local authority DfE records 279 pupil entries, against 5,159 for GCSE Mathematics — about one Statistics entry for every 18 in maths.

Which Liverpool schools have a published GCSE Statistics entry for 2024/25? All 31 checked, one by one

The Department for Education publishes a school-level subject table for every key stage 4 institution in its 2024/25 performance data. For Liverpool that table carries 42 rows. Eleven of the 42 are not state-funded mainstream schools: seven are special schools and four are other independent schools, and every URN was checked against Get Information About Schools on 17 September 2026 to classify it. None of those eleven published a GCSE Statistics entry. That leaves the 31 below, which is the set every figure on this page is drawn from.

Eleven of the 31 published a GCSE Statistics entry for 2024/25. Twenty published no GCSE Statistics row at all. That distinction matters more than it looks: DfE nowhere states that a missing row means nobody was entered, so this page reports those twenty as schools with no published row and never as confirmed zeros. Nothing in Liverpool’s rows is withheld by a suppression symbol either — all 38 values the query returns are numeric.

Source: DfE “Key stage 4 institution level — Schools (subject entries and grades)”, 2024/25, subject group Statistics, grade Total exam entries. School type and open or closed status from Get Information About Schools, each URN checked on 17 September 2026. “No row published” means DfE publishes no GCSE Statistics row for that school; it is not a published zero.

Two of the 31 sit under URNs that GIAS now records as closed, each having converted to academy status, and the two are not the same case. Archbishop Blanch CofE High School appears under URN 104705, and its successor URN 152034 opened on 1 December 2025, after the year this data covers had ended. Gateacre School appears under URN 104700, but its successor URN 150956 opened on 1 December 2024 — inside 2024/25 and before the June 2025 exam series, so that conversion happened during the year the table describes. Both schools are open under the same names, and neither published a GCSE Statistics entry under either URN.

Four Liverpool schools hold 270 of the 278 GCSE Statistics entries DfE publishes at school level

Adding the eleven published rows together gives 278 entries. Four schools hold 270 of them. Dixons Broadgreen Academy alone accounts for 152 — more than half the city’s total — followed by Holly Lodge Girls’ College on 59, Liverpool College on 43 and North Liverpool Academy on 16. The remaining seven schools hold eight entries between them: six publish a single entry each and Dixons Fazakerley Academy publishes two.

That shape matters. A single entry at a school of 263 pupils, as at Calderstones School, is not a school running a Statistics course; it is one candidate. Dixons Broadgreen’s 152 entries against 164 GCSE Maths entries, at a school with 167 pupils at the end of key stage 4, is close to a whole year group. The two sit in the same column of the same table and mean entirely different things for a parent.

The eleven school rows do not quite account for the local authority figure. DfE’s local-authority data set gives Liverpool 279 pupil entries for 2024/25, one more than the 278 the school rows add up to. The two are not the same measure, which is why they are free to differ at all: the school-level file counts “Number of entries at grade” under a grade labelled “Total exam entries”, while the local-authority file counts “Number of pupils achieving the grade” under a grade labelled “Total pupil entries”. Their stated coverage differs too — the local-authority set covers state-funded schools and pupils at the end of key stage 4, the school-level set covers schools and colleges in the performance tables data. DfE’s own methodology promises only that “the national and local authority figures included in the statistical releases and the school level data will match when comparing measures with the same definition”, and an exam entry and a pupil entry are not the same definition.

That is why the two figures need not agree. It is not an explanation of this particular one-entry difference, and this page asserts no mechanism for that. What it does mean is that the eleven named schools cannot be said to be the only Liverpool schools that entered anyone: one entry is unaccounted for, and we cannot say where it sits.

Liverpool’s seven-year GCSE Statistics entry series — and the two years DfE says not to compare

DfE publishes Liverpool GCSE Statistics entries back to 2018/19: 32, then 155, 139, 105, 98, 223 and 279. That is not a trend line and it should not be read as one. It rises nearly fivefold, falls for three consecutive years, then more than doubles again.

Two of those seven years cannot be set beside the others at all. The summer exam series was cancelled in both. DfE’s own key stage 4 methodology records that in 2019/20 pupils were awarded centre assessment grades and in 2020/21 teacher-assessed grades, and states plainly that “2020 and 2021 data should not be compared to previous years’ attainment data for the purposes of measuring changes in pupil performance”. The rule deciding which entries count changed for exactly those two years as well: the same document records “the return of first entry discounting rules after the use of best entry discounting in 2019/20 and 2020/21”.

The two years after them are not clean comparisons either. For both 2021/22 and 2022/23 DfE states that “results achieved between January 2020 and August 2021, by pupils included in 2022/23 measures, are not included in the calculations”, so any early entry sat in that window is missing from the count. Only from 2023/24 does the methodology describe the measures as calculated “in a broadly similar way to prior to the pandemic”.

What survives that is a single comparable consecutive pair, 2023/24 to 2024/25, and it is a real movement: Liverpool went from 223 entries to 279, an increase of 56 or 25.11 per cent. England’s state-funded total moved from 30,221 to 31,402 over the same two years, a rise of 3.91 per cent. Liverpool’s entries therefore grew more than six times as fast as England’s in the one year the data lets you compare them. Both percentages are calculated here from DfE’s raw counts; DfE publishes neither.

What the school-level data cannot tell you is which schools drove that. DfE publishes the school-level subject table for 2024/25 only, so there is no 2023/24 school breakdown to compare against. Dixons Broadgreen Academy holds 152 of the 2024/25 entries, but attributing the rise to that school would be a guess, and this page does not make it.

Statistics as a share of Liverpool’s own GCSE Maths entries, and how that compares with England

A raw entry count means very little on its own; 279 is small or large depending on how many pupils there are to enter. The honest local denominator is the same city’s GCSE Mathematics entries in the same year, from the same DfE data set, because almost every pupil at the end of key stage 4 sits GCSE Maths. In 2024/25 Liverpool recorded 5,159 GCSE Maths pupil entries against 279 for Statistics. That is 5.41 per cent, or about one Statistics entry for every 18 in maths.

Source: DfE “Subject pupil level local authority data”, key stage 4 performance, Liverpool (E08000012) and England. Entry counts are DfE’s; both share columns are calculated by Leading Tuition from the raw counts either side of them and are not published by DfE. † marks the two years DfE says should not be compared to “previous years’ attainment data for the purposes of measuring changes in pupil performance”.

Read down the last two columns and one thing stands out. Liverpool’s share sits below England’s in every one of the six earlier years — in 2022/23 it was 1.95 per cent against England’s 4.17 — and above it for the first time in 2024/25, 5.41 per cent against 5.18. In 2024/25, for the first time in the series, Liverpool’s schools entered Statistics at a higher rate against their own GCSE Maths entries than England’s did.

One caution on that ratio. It compares entries with entries, not pupils with pupils, so it does not say what proportion of Liverpool children take Statistics: a pupil can appear in both columns, and the two counts are not drawn from the same denominator.

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How the 279 Liverpool entries were graded in 2024/25, against England and the North West

Entering a subject and passing it are separate questions, and in Liverpool they point in opposite directions. DfE records 175 of the 279 Liverpool entries at grade 9 to 4 and publishes the rate as 63 per cent. England’s state-funded rate for the same year is 69 per cent and the North West’s is 68. Liverpool enters proportionally more and passes proportionally fewer.

Source: DfE “Subject pupil level local authority data”, grade “9 to 4” against grade “Total pupil entries”, sex Total. The counts and the published rate are both DfE’s; dividing one by the other reproduces the rate it publishes, which is how the figures on this page were checked.

Dividing 175 by 279 gives 62.72 per cent, which rounds to the 63 DfE itself publishes on the same row. That is the check that the figures here come from the same place DfE’s own rate does, and it was run on all three areas.

The city figure hides an enormous spread between the four schools that publish enough entries to have a grade breakdown at all.

Source: DfE “Key stage 4 institution level — Schools (subject entries and grades)”, 2024/25. Grade-4-or-above counts are added by Leading Tuition from DfE’s published grade rows, which sum exactly to each school’s published total. The other seven schools publish a total but no grade rows.

Dixons Broadgreen Academy, entering on the scale of a whole year group, saw 59 of its 152 entries reach grade 4 or above, with 17 ungraded. North Liverpool Academy entered 16 and all 16 reached grade 4 or above, every one of them at grade 6 or higher. Those are not better and worse schools; they are different decisions about who sits the qualification. A school that enters a selected group will post a high rate, and a school that enters everybody will not, and neither figure tells a parent much about what their own child would get out of the course.

One comparison to get right. Our national GCSE Statistics page reports JCQ’s UK-wide grade 4-or-above rate for that same June 2025 series as 71.09 per cent, against the 69 per cent DfE publishes for England. Neither source is wrong, and the difference is not a year effect. JCQ counts every centre in the UK that entered a candidate, independent schools and private candidates included; DfE counts state-funded schools in England and pupils at the end of key stage 4. They are different populations and one cannot be substituted for the other. Watch the year as well: DfE’s local data runs a series behind, so 2024/25 here is June 2025, while JCQ has already published June 2026 and puts that series at 72.28 per cent.

Is GCSE Statistics an EBacc subject? What DfE’s own qualification list says

No, and this is checkable rather than a matter of opinion. DfE publishes the list of qualifications counting towards the English Baccalaureate as a spreadsheet, English Baccalaureate: eligible qualifications, last updated 18 June 2026. Its maths sheet is headed “Qualifications counting as maths in the English Baccalaureate, and as EBacc maths in Progress 8 and Attainment 8”, and it lists GCSE (9-1) Mathematics from OCR, AQA, Pearson Edexcel and WJEC Eduqas, plus eight AS qualifications in Mathematics or Further Mathematics. Nothing else. Searching all eight sheets of that workbook, including the archive sheet, returns no Statistics qualification anywhere.

That is the practical argument against timetabling it: a second maths-family GCSE in an options block gained nothing towards the EBacc, while a geography or a language would have counted. That is about the EBacc specifically, not a claim that the qualification counts for nothing — DfE’s own note says the list governs eligibility for only “some of the Progress 8 and Attainment 8 slots”. Whether the EBacc is why 20 of the 31 schools published no entry is not something the data can settle.

The measure is also going. The same workbook notes on its overview sheet that “from academic year 2025 to 2026 onwards, English Baccalaureate (EBacc) headline and additional measures are being removed from key stage 4 performance measures”, adding that the list “still determines whether qualifications are eligible for inclusion in some of the Progress 8 and Attainment 8 slots”. Whether that changes what Liverpool schools offer cannot be answered from published data yet.

If DfE publishes no GCSE Statistics row for your child’s Liverpool school

This applies to 20 of the 31 schools in the table above, which makes it the ordinary case in Liverpool rather than the exception. Start by asking the school: DfE’s table answers a narrower question than a parent is asking, recording entries made in 2024/25, not what appears in the options booklet a school is handing out for the next round of choices, and a school with no 2024/25 entry may be teaching the course to a later cohort.

Where a school genuinely does not offer it, the qualification’s own rules provide a route, and the board’s exact wording on private candidates and on centres that have never run its specifications is set out on our GCSE Statistics guide rather than paraphrased here. Two boards examine the subject. AQA’s own Mathematics subject page listed 8382 GCSE Statistics when it was checked on 17 September 2026, with the next exam given as 07 June 2027; paper structure, the assessment objectives and the grade boundary history are on our AQA GCSE Statistics page and, for the other board, our Edexcel GCSE Statistics page.

One warning about checking this yourself. An awarding body’s website returning a page at a plausible URL is not evidence that it offers the qualification. Ask ocr.org.uk for an invented path under /qualifications/gcse/ and it answers HTTP 200 with a generic placeholder titled “Qualification details” rather than a 404. A qualification OCR really does offer looks nothing like it: /qualifications/gcse/mathematics-j560-from-2015/ returns a page titled “GCSE Maths (9-1) - J560”. Both checked on 18 September 2026. Our national GCSE Statistics guide records that OCR, Eduqas and WJEC do not offer the subject, confirmed against each board’s own live GCSE subject list on 7 September 2026.

How Leading Tuition works with Liverpool GCSE Statistics students

Ninety-one per cent of Leading Tuition students achieve their desired grades. For GCSE Statistics in Liverpool the work divides along the line the table above draws. A student at one of the four schools whose entries run into double figures has a scheme of work, a class and a centre already entered; the tutoring sits alongside that and follows the school’s sequence, which usually means keeping the statistical enquiry cycle from being crowded out by the calculation topics that overlap with GCSE Maths.

A student at one of the 20 schools with no published entry is in a different position. There is no class, no scheme of work and often no centre yet, so the tuition carries the course rather than supplementing it, and the practical questions — which board, which centre, when entries close — come first. Sessions run one to one online with a shared whiteboard, so a tutor can work through past-paper questions, mark them against the real mark scheme and annotate them live.

Because Statistics is taken alongside GCSE Maths rather than instead of it, the two subjects compete for the same revision hours in the same year. Where a family is running both, our tutors coordinate across them so the shared content is taught once. Our GCSE maths tutors in Liverpool page carries the city’s own maths attainment data, and the wider GCSE tuition service covers every other subject in the same timetable.

Frequently Asked Questions About GCSE Statistics in Liverpool