DfE's 2024/25 data, checked school by school across two South London boroughs: which schools actually enter pupils for GCSE Economics, which enter nobody at all, and where a student can take the A-level instead.
Book a Free ConsultationGCSE Economics is a small-entry subject in Southwark and Wandsworth, the two South London boroughs this page surveys school by school: DfE's 2024/25 data shows 10 of their 40 mainstream secondary schools enter any pupil for the GCSE, led by Graveney School's 93 entries and Emanuel School, an independent school, at 63. Three schools checked in full enter nobody at all. Every figure below is dated, sourced, and checked again on 16 September 2026.
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Book a Free ConsultationMessage us on WhatsAppLondon has 32 boroughs plus the City of London -- far too many for one page to check school by school. This page surveys Southwark and Wandsworth, two contiguous South London boroughs that this batch's own GCSE Business Studies page for London did not cover (that page checked Brent and Hackney instead), and that no other Leading Tuition London GCSE location page has already surveyed. It is not a claim that GCSE Economics is rare or common across the whole of London -- only what these two boroughs' own secondary schools actually enter.
Every entries figure below was checked twice: once against DfE's own underlying 2024/25 subject-entry dataset, and once again against that school's own live 'Subjects entered at key stage 4' page on compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk. Both sources returned identical entries figures for all thirteen schools named on this page, and the dataset's own reliability was checked before use by confirming it reproduces a figure already published on the Business Studies sibling page exactly -- Kingsbury High School's 142 Business Studies entries from a 296-pupil cohort. All thirteen schools are confirmed Open on GIAS's own establishment records, checked by URN, on 16 September 2026.
| School (2024/25) | Borough / Type | Cohort | GCSE Economics entries | % of cohort |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graveney School | Wandsworth, Converter academy | 286 | 93 | 32.5% |
| Emanuel School | Wandsworth, Independent | 184 | 63 | 34.2% |
| Kingsdale Foundation School | Southwark, Converter academy | 429 | 64 | 14.9% |
| City of London Academy (Southwark) | Southwark, Sponsored academy | 230 | 52 | 22.6% |
| The Charter School East Dulwich | Southwark, Free school | 175 | 42 | 24.0% |
| The Charter School North Dulwich | Southwark, Converter academy | 187 | 39 | 20.9% |
| The St Thomas the Apostle College | Southwark, Voluntary aided | 161 | 27 | 16.8% |
| Harris Girls’ Academy East Dulwich | Southwark, Sponsored academy | 152 | 27 | 17.8% |
| Ashcroft Technology Academy | Wandsworth, Sponsored academy | 238 | 30 | 12.6% |
| Ernest Bevin Academy | Wandsworth, Converter academy | 101 | 15 | 14.9% |
Graveney School, a non-selective converter academy in Wandsworth, enters the most pupils for GCSE Economics of any school checked for this page -- 93 from a 286-pupil cohort, 32.5%. Emanuel School, an independent school a short distance away in the same borough, enters a smaller number (63) from a smaller cohort (184), but the highest share of any school on this page: 34.2%. Between them, Wandsworth's two highest-uptake schools for the subject are one state-funded academy and one independent school, not two of the same kind.
In Southwark, Kingsdale Foundation School carries the largest cohort of the ten schools (429 pupils) and the second-highest entry count (64), though at 14.9% of cohort it sits at the lower end of the range. The Charter School East Dulwich enters the highest share of any Southwark school, 24.0% (42 of 175), ahead of its near-namesake The Charter School North Dulwich at 20.9% (39 of 187). Ernest Bevin Academy, in Wandsworth, has both the smallest cohort (101) and the smallest entry count (15) of the ten schools that enter the subject at all, but its 14.9% share matches Kingsdale's exactly.
Three schools checked for this page enter nobody at all for GCSE Economics: Dulwich College, an independent school in Southwark; Harris Academy Peckham, a state-funded sponsored academy also in Southwark; and Burntwood School, a state-funded converter academy in Wandsworth. Each school's full DfE 'Subjects entered at key stage 4' table was read line by line for any row containing the word 'Economics' -- none was found on any of the three, and none carries a suppressed-cohort marker either, so this is a genuine zero rather than a small number DfE has hidden.
Dulwich College's own 17-row table runs straight from Design & Technology to Drama & Theatre Studies to Geography -- Economics would sit alphabetically between the second and third of those, and it is not there, despite the college entering 125 pupils for Geography and 78 for Design & Technology the same year. This is worth stating plainly because it runs against an easy assumption: an independent school with a large, academically broad curriculum is not automatically a school that teaches GCSE Economics. Emanuel School, also independent and in the neighbouring borough, has the highest Economics uptake of any school on this page. Being independent predicts neither outcome by itself.
Burntwood School's own table is the largest of the three checked here -- 35 rows, including several Technical Award vocational qualifications (Computer Appreciation, Dance, Hospitality/Catering, Music Technology, Sports Studies) -- but none of them sits in the business or economics domain, and Economics itself is absent between Drama & Theatre Studies and English Language, exactly where it would sit alphabetically. Harris Academy Peckham's 24-row table shows the same gap in the same place. Between them, the three zero-entry schools show that a school with no GCSE Economics can still run a large, varied curriculum -- Burntwood enters 244 pupils for English Language and 243 for Mathematics -- the absence sits in one specific subject, not in the school's academic offer generally.
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Two figures on this page are this page's own arithmetic, not a DfE-published statistic, and both are stated with the working shown. DfE's own underlying dataset lists 49 Southwark and Wandsworth establishments with a GCSE Mathematics entries row in 2024/25; 9 of those are special or independent-special schools and were excluded as not offering a mainstream GCSE options block, leaving 40 mainstream secondary schools as the denominator. Of those 40, 10 entered any pupil for GCSE Economics: 10 ÷ 40 = 25.0% of mainstream schools in Southwark and Wandsworth teach the subject at GCSE at all. The limit is stated plainly: this is a two-borough figure, not a London-wide one, and 'has a Maths entry' stands in for 'is a mainstream secondary' because DfE's dataset carries no cleaner single flag for it.
Among the 10 schools that do offer it, uptake as a share of cohort varies considerably -- from Ernest Bevin Academy's 14.9% to Emanuel School's 34.2%. Summing entries (452) over summing cohorts (2,143) across all ten gives a cohort-weighted average of 21.1% of cohort in Southwark and Wandsworth's Economics-teaching schools; the unweighted mean of the ten schools' own individual percentages is also 21.1% to one decimal place on this particular sample. Both methods are given because they can diverge on a different set of schools; here they happen to agree. This 21.1% describes uptake only among the schools that already teach the subject -- it says nothing about the 30 of 40 mainstream Southwark and Wandsworth schools that do not offer it, whose figure is a flat 0%.
Not teaching the GCSE does not close the door on the A-level. Two of the ten schools checked for this page that do teach GCSE Economics also publish their own A-level Economics entry requirements, and both show that a student does not need the GCSE itself to be admitted to the course.
City of London Academy (Southwark) sets a general sixth-form bar of “GCSE maths AND English at grade 5 or above” and “an average GCSE points score of 5.5”, then adds a subject-specific line for Economics: “6 in Economics and 6 in Maths. If Economics not studied, a 6 in English Language or Literature and 6 in Mathematics.” Even at a school that already teaches the GCSE, a student who has never sat it can still be admitted to the A-level through the Maths-and-English route.
Graveney School’s general entry requirement for Advanced Level courses is “5 full GCSE grades at 4 to 9, or grades A* to C, in separate subjects, including English Language and Maths.” Its Economics-specific line reads: “5 in Maths and 5 in English Language”, then “4 in Economics / Business Studies / Merit in L2 BTEC Business Studies if taken.” The phrase “if taken” is doing the same job as City of London Academy's alternative route -- GCSE Economics is one of three acceptable subjects at Graveney, not a fixed requirement. Neither school's published policy treats GCSE Economics as a precondition for the A-level, which matches the national picture set out on our own GCSE Economics subject page: neither AQA's nor Pearson Edexcel's A-level Economics specification lists the GCSE as an entry requirement.
One in four mainstream Southwark and Wandsworth schools teaches GCSE Economics -- three in four do not. Our expert GCSE Economics tutors help students across both boroughs whichever side of that line their own school falls on.
Book a Free ConsultationMessage us on WhatsAppLondon has 32 boroughs plus the City of London, far too many for one page to survey school by school. This page checks Southwark and Wandsworth, two contiguous South London boroughs that this batch's own GCSE Business Studies page for London did not cover (that page checked Brent and Hackney) and that no other Leading Tuition London GCSE location page has already surveyed. It names ten schools that enter GCSE Economics and three confirmed zero-entry schools -- not a claim to have checked every secondary school in either borough, still less every borough in London.
10 of the 40 mainstream secondary schools across Southwark and Wandsworth entered any pupil for GCSE Economics in 2024/25, according to DfE's own school-level data -- 25.0%. That figure is this page's own division of DfE's own numbers (10 schools of 40, after excluding 9 special and independent-special schools from the 49-establishment total), not a DfE-published statistic itself. The remaining 30 schools -- three in four -- enter nobody.
Yes, both. Emanuel School, in Wandsworth, is the highest-uptake school on this page by share of cohort (34.2%, 63 of 184 pupils). Dulwich College, in Southwark, is one of three schools checked for this page that enters nobody at all for GCSE Economics, confirmed by reading its full DfE subjects-entered table line by line. Independent status predicts neither outcome by itself -- the two independent schools on this page sit at opposite ends of the range.
This page does not say, because DfE's published performance data does not record which exam board an individual school uses -- only the subject, qualification type and entry count. Nationally, only two boards publish a domestic GCSE in Economics; our own GCSE Economics subject page sets out which two and how their papers differ. No board is attributed to any named school on this page, because the source does not support one.
Two of the ten Southwark and Wandsworth schools checked for this page that do teach GCSE Economics -- Graveney School and City of London Academy (Southwark) -- publish their own A-level Economics entry requirements, and both accept students who have not sat the GCSE. City of London Academy asks for “6 in Economics and 6 in Maths” or, failing that, “6 in English Language or Literature and 6 in Mathematics.” Graveney asks for “5 in Maths and 5 in English Language” plus “4 in Economics / Business Studies / Merit in L2 BTEC Business Studies if taken.”
No, they are separate GCSEs with separate specification codes, though a handful of schools teach both. This page covers Economics only; our GCSE Business Studies page for London, which surveys Brent and Hackney, covers that subject on its own terms. Two schools on this page's own list -- Graveney School and City of London Academy (Southwark) -- also appear on published Business Studies figures for their boroughs, entering both subjects rather than one instead of the other.
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Entries and cohort figures on this page are drawn from DfE’s Compare School and College Performance service and DfE’s own underlying 2024/25 Key stage 4 performance subject-entry dataset on Explore Education Statistics, both checked 16 September 2026. School status and identity are drawn from GIAS’s own establishment records, checked the same day. Families researching Leading Tuition’s national GCSE Economics subject guide, our GCSE Business Studies tutors in London page, our Economics tuition service, our wider GCSE tuition service, and our wider tutoring locations across the UK, can find each covered on its own page.
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