Six London sixth forms, six boroughs: the GCSE grade, exam board and optional papers each one actually publishes for A-level Further Mathematics in 2026.
Book a Free ConsultationLondon has no single dataset a family can check for A-level Further Mathematics, so this page samples six sixth forms in six different boroughs — a sample of six of the 580 London providers in DfE's 2024/25 school-level data. The GCSE Mathematics grade a department asks for before it will teach Further Maths runs from grade 7 at Alexandra Park School in Haringey to grade 9 at Brampton Manor Academy in Newham.
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Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppThree of the six run their own assessment before confirming a place, two are specialist mathematics sixth forms where every student takes the subject, and four of the six name Pearson Edexcel as their exam board — though only two say which optional papers their own department actually enters. The list below gives each school's own GCSE grade requirement and borough at a glance; the sections that follow set out the source for every figure.
The six sample schools publish six different thresholds, and none of them is negotiable once a place is confirmed. Alexandra Park School, in Haringey, asks for grade 7 or above in GCSE Maths, grade 5 in English Language and at least three other GCSEs at grade 5 — the lowest maths bar of the six. Townley Grammar School, in Bexley, sets a minimum of grade 8 in GCSE Mathematics, and adds its own maths assessment on top (see below). St Dominic's Sixth Form College, in Harrow, also asks for grade 8 in GCSE Maths.
King's College London Mathematics School, in Lambeth, sets a conditional offer of grade 8 or 9 in GCSE Mathematics, alongside grade 7, 8 or 9 in GCSE or iGCSE Physics (or grade 7-7 or better in GCSE Combined Science) and grade 5 in English Language. Brampton Manor Academy, in Newham, sets the highest bar of the six: its own 2027 sixth-form admissions policy states grade 9 in GCSE Mathematics for Further Mathematics specifically, condition 3.3.8. Imperial College London Mathematics School, sited next to Woodhouse College in Barnet, says applicants “should be likely to achieve a grade 8 or 9 in GCSE mathematics”, selecting on its own admissions test and interview rather than a fixed grade alone.
Woodhouse College itself, on the same Barnet site as Imperial Maths School but not one of the six sample schools, asks for grade 8 in Mathematics and grade 5 in English Language, and restricts Further Mathematics to a fourth A-level programme only — a rule three of the six sample schools share in some form (see the next section).
King's College London Mathematics School has the clearest live timeline of the six: applications for September 2027 entry are open now, with a deadline of Tuesday 22 November 2026 at 23:59. Every applicant sits a mathematics aptitude test in December 2026, a high score earns an interview in January 2027, and conditional offers go out in early February 2027.
Imperial College London Mathematics School's applications for September 2027 entry open at the end of September 2026, and follow the same shape as the cycle just gone: for September 2026 entry, applicants who cleared a minimum threshold sat the school's own admissions test on Sunday 18 January 2026, entirely multiple choice. Imperial had not yet published its 2027 test date when this page was checked on 26 September 2026, but the school's own third intake — 66 students — joined in September 2025 on the same admissions-test-and-interview model.
Townley Grammar School sets a guidance assessment for every Mathematics and Further Mathematics applicant — its own Year 11 students sat theirs on Monday 19 January 2026 at 2.45pm, and newcomers to the school sat a separate sitting on Saturday 24 January 2026. The assessment itself runs one hour, without a calculator, and Townley's own subject information states it “does not require any knowledge of algebra beyond GCSE”, though it tests how that algebra is applied under A-level conditions. Townley had not published a 2027 sitting date as of 26 September 2026; the pattern above is its most recently confirmed cycle, run annually in January.
Six schools in England's 2024/25 institution-level dataset specialise in mathematics alone, and two of them are in London — King's College London Mathematics School in Lambeth and Imperial College London Mathematics School in Barnet — while the other four (Cambridge Maths School, Exeter Mathematics School, Leeds Mathematics School and the University of Liverpool Mathematics School) sit in four separate local authorities with no LA code shared between them. London is the only city with two.
At King's, over 50% of the timetable is mathematics: every Year 12 student studies Maths, Further Maths and Physics, with a fourth-subject choice between Economics and Computer Science, and by Year 13 every student is down to three A-levels, two of them fixed as Maths and Further Maths. At Imperial, the rule is stricter still — “all students must take Maths and Further Maths”, the school's own curriculum page states, with Physics and Chemistry offered alongside and at least one of the two compulsory.
The two sites are 8.3 miles apart in a straight line — SE11 6NJ to N12 9EY — which means a London family choosing between them is choosing between two genuinely separate institutions, not two branches of one. Imperial’s own admissions FAQ names its partner universities as Cambridge, Exeter, King’s College London, Lancaster, Leeds, Surrey and Liverpool. For Barnet’s own A-level results across every subject, not just Further Maths, see our A-level tuition in Barnet page.
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Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppBrampton Manor Academy, Townley Grammar School, Alexandra Park School and St Dominic's Sixth Form College all name Pearson Edexcel as their exam board for A-level Further Mathematics. King's College London Mathematics School is the exception among the sample: it enters OCR B (MEI), stating on its own curriculum page that “in year 13 all students are entered for A2 Mathematics (OCR B, MEI) [and] A2 Further Mathematics (OCR B, MEI)”. Imperial College London Mathematics School names no exam board anywhere across the eight pages of its own site checked for this page — its taught curriculum, admissions requirements, FAQs, super-curriculum, headteacher's welcome, vision and values, policies page and Ofsted report — none of the eight names one.
Naming a board is not the same as saying what a department actually teaches once the board offers a choice, and on that question the sample splits further. St Dominic's Sixth Form College is the most specific of the six: its own subject page states the department enters Further Statistics 1 as a fixed paper, with the final paper a choice of Further Pure 1, Further Statistics 2, Further Mechanics 1 or Decision 1. Townley Grammar School names one applied route rather than a menu — its own subject information states “the applied unit covers both decision mathematics and further mechanics”, and Further Mathematics can only be taken as a fourth A-level there. Neither school's own published subject information for A-level Further Mathematics says anything about its results on the measure covered below.
Alexandra Park School's own course description instead reproduces Edexcel's whole menu under syllabus code 9FM0 — four options for Paper 3 and seven for Paper 4 — without stating which of those eleven combinations its own department actually enters. Woodhouse College, on the same Barnet site as Imperial Maths School but outside the sample, is explicit in the other direction: its own curriculum page states it teaches Core Pure 2 together with Further Statistics and Further Mechanics in the second year, on top of the Mathematics content and Core Pure 1 covered in the first. Our A-level Further Maths guide covers how AQA, Edexcel, OCR and Eduqas structure the qualification nationally, including which optional papers can legally be combined.
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Of the 580 London schools and colleges in DfE's 2024/25 institution-level dataset, 383 return an A-level Further Mathematics row and 197 return none at all. Of those 383 rows, 157 are suppressed — the cohort was too small for DfE to publish a score without risking identifying an individual student — leaving 226 published. Their published cohorts run small: the median is 10 DfE-matched entries, the smallest published cohort is 6, the largest is 114, and 114 of the 226 published rows — exactly half — carry 10 entries or fewer. Of those 226, 36 have a 95% confidence interval that sits entirely on one side of zero: 17 entirely above it and 19 entirely below.
A value-added score is DfE's own measure of a cohort's progress in this subject against its prior attainment, for 2024/25 entrants only, and it says nothing about teaching quality on its own — a score is only informative at all where its own confidence interval clears zero, and even then it is a statement about one cohort's progress in one year, not a ranking of schools. By DfE's own matched entry count, the six sample schools run, from largest to smallest: Brampton Manor Academy 114, St Dominic's Sixth Form College 90, King's College London Mathematics School 76, Imperial College London Mathematics School 43, Townley Grammar School 24 and Alexandra Park School 17.
Brampton Manor Academy's own value-added score is +0.36, with a 95% confidence interval of 0.15 to 0.58 from 114 matched entries — the interval clears zero. That is DfE's value-added progress measure for 2024/25 entrants; it is not a measure of teaching quality.
Townley Grammar School's own value-added score is -1.07, with a 95% confidence interval of -1.54 to -0.6 from 24 matched entries — the interval clears zero, on the negative side. This is DfE's value-added progress measure for 2024/25 entrants, tracking one cohort's progress against its own prior attainment in one subject and one year; it is not a measure of teaching quality.
St Dominic's Sixth Form College's own value-added score is exactly 0, with a 95% confidence interval of -0.24 to 0.24 from 90 matched entries — the only one of the six sample rows whose interval does not clear zero, on either side. On DfE's own measure, that reads as no detectable progress difference either way for this cohort of 2024/25 entrants, not as a finding about teaching.
Alexandra Park School's own value-added score is +0.89, with a 95% confidence interval of 0.34 to 1.45 from 17 matched entries — the interval clears zero, from the smallest matched cohort of the six. This is DfE's 2024/25 value-added progress measure, not a measure of teaching quality.
King's College London Mathematics School's own value-added score is +0.6, with a 95% confidence interval of 0.34 to 0.86 from 76 matched entries — the interval clears zero. This is DfE's value-added progress measure for 2024/25 entrants and not a measure of teaching quality.
Imperial College London Mathematics School's own value-added score is +0.71, with a 95% confidence interval of 0.36 to 1.05 from 43 matched entries — the interval clears zero. This, too, is DfE's 2024/25 value-added progress measure, not a measure of teaching quality, and none of the six figures above is presented here as a ranking of one school against another.
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Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsApp197 of the 580 London providers in DfE's 2024/25 dataset return no A-level Further Mathematics row at all — the subject simply is not taught there. The Advanced Mathematics Support Programme (AMSP), a government-funded initiative led and delivered by MEI, exists specifically for this gap: it “can provide support for students in state-funded schools and colleges who would benefit from studying AS/A level Further Mathematics in cases where it can't be offered in your school or college”. Full detail on the AMSP’s own Further Mathematics Online programme is on its own site. For Maths results across London more broadly, see our A-level Maths tutors in London page.
The AMSP's own Further Mathematics Online programme enables 150 students a year across England to study the A-level this way, through 30 weekly online tutorials of 70 minutes each, in groups the programme describes as usually six to eight students per tutor — alongside recorded videos, notes, walkthroughs and practice material. It is a route for a state-funded student whose own sixth form has no Further Maths department, not a replacement for one that already runs the subject.
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Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppThe six routes above are not interchangeable: Edexcel's 9FM0 against OCR B (MEI), a two-year course against the one-year Year 13 model Alexandra Park and Townley both run, a January entrance assessment against a December aptitude test. Our expert A-level Further Maths tutors work with students across London on whichever of these routes their own sixth form actually teaches, building a programme around that department's own board, applied papers and pace — not a generic Further Maths syllabus.
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This page samples six of the 580 London schools and colleges in DfE's 2024/25 dataset, one in each of six boroughs: Alexandra Park School (Haringey), Townley Grammar School (Bexley), St Dominic's Sixth Form College (Harrow), King's College London Mathematics School (Lambeth), Brampton Manor Academy (Newham) and Imperial College London Mathematics School (Barnet). Across the whole London dataset, 383 of the 580 providers return an A-level Further Mathematics row for 2024/25 and 197 return none. A different six boroughs could show a different picture; this sample is chosen for institutional diversity, not for being representative of all 580.
It varies by school. The six sample providers ask for grade 7 (Alexandra Park School), grade 8 (Townley Grammar School and St Dominic's Sixth Form College), grade 8 or 9 (King's College London Mathematics School, alongside a GCSE Physics or Combined Science grade), or grade 9 specifically (Brampton Manor Academy, condition 3.3.8 of its 2027 sixth-form admissions policy). Imperial College London Mathematics School says applicants “should be likely to achieve” grade 8 or 9 rather than setting a fixed minimum.
At three of the six sample schools, yes. Townley Grammar School states Further Mathematics “must be chosen as a fourth A-level only”. St Dominic's Sixth Form College requires a student to start four A-levels if taking Further Maths with a grade 8 in GCSE Maths, dropping to three after the first half-term's grades. Brampton Manor Academy admits every student to three A-levels as standard, and permits a fourth only where Further Mathematics is one of the four, or where the student achieved grade 9 in every GCSE. At King's College London Mathematics School and Imperial College London Mathematics School, Maths and Further Maths are both compulsory within a three-subject programme, so the fourth-subject question does not arise.
Four of the six sample schools — Brampton Manor Academy, Townley Grammar School, Alexandra Park School and St Dominic's Sixth Form College — name Pearson Edexcel. King's College London Mathematics School enters OCR B (MEI) instead. Imperial College London Mathematics School names no exam board across the eight pages of its own site checked for this page. Only St Dominic's and Townley say which of Edexcel's optional papers their own department actually enters; Alexandra Park reproduces the whole menu of eleven combinations without naming its own choice.
King's College London Mathematics School's deadline for September 2027 entry is Tuesday 22 November 2026 at 23:59, with a mathematics aptitude test in December 2026, interviews in January 2027 and conditional offers in early February 2027. Imperial College London Mathematics School's applications for September 2027 entry open at the end of September 2026; its own test date for that cycle was not yet published when this page was checked on 26 September 2026, but its most recent sitting, for September 2026 entry, ran on Sunday 18 January 2026 and was entirely multiple choice.
It measures one cohort's progress in this subject against its own prior attainment for 2024/25 entrants only, and it is only informative where the school's own 95% confidence interval sits entirely above or entirely below zero. Across London's 226 published 2024/25 scores, 36 clear zero — 17 above and 19 below — out of 383 providers with a Further Maths row; the rest either carry a cohort too small for DfE to publish (157 rows) or an interval that straddles zero. It is not a measure of teaching quality, and DfE does not rank schools on it.
197 of the 580 London providers in DfE's 2024/25 dataset return no A-level Further Mathematics row at all. For a student in a state-funded school or college in that position, the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme (AMSP), funded by the government and delivered by MEI, runs a Further Mathematics Online programme: 30 weekly online tutorials of 70 minutes, in groups the programme describes as usually six to eight students per tutor, enabling 150 students a year across England to study the A-level this way.
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