GCSE German Tutors in London 2026

GCSE German is currently examined under AQA's specification 8662 or Pearson Edexcel's 1GN1, both first taught from September 2024 and first awarded in summer 2026. DfE's own state-funded data shows German entries falling from 48 to 11 in Haringey and from 187 to 111 in Hillingdon since 2018/19 -- yet Swakeleys School for Girls in Hillingdon entered 72 pupils for German against just 2 for Spanish in 2024/25.

Which Boards Still Run a GCSE in German, and What Is the Current Specification?

Two boards, not four. AQA's current GCSE German specification is code 8662, first teaching from September 2024 and first exams in summer 2026, confirmed directly on AQA's own specification page. The specification it replaced, 8668, now carries its own retirement banner on AQA's site: "This is the legacy specification. Please visit GCSE German 8662 for the current specification (first teach Sept 2024)." Pearson Edexcel's equivalent is a separate code, 1GN1, confirmed in Pearson's own specification document: "Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9-1) in German (1GN1). First teaching from September 2024, first certification from 2026."

OCR does not run a GCSE in German at all. Its own full A-Z index of GCSE subjects, published at ocr.org.uk, lists every qualification it offers -- Ancient History, Art and Design, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Citizenship Studies, Classical Civilisation, Classical Greek, Computer Science, and on through to Science, Combined -- and the list runs straight from Geography to History with no French, German or Spanish row anywhere in it. That matters because ocr.org.uk returns an HTTP 200 response for almost any URL guess, including a deliberately impossible one: this page confirmed that by fetching both a plausible GCSE German URL and a nonsense URL and finding them byte-for-byte identical, so a resolving OCR link proves nothing on its own. Only the board's own published subject index settles the question.

WJEC Eduqas sits in between. Its live qualifications index lists "AS/A Level German" but no GCSE German. A reformed Eduqas GCSE German specification does exist as a document, dated "For teaching from 2024, For award from 2026" and structured across four Components rather than Papers -- but its own "Making entries" section has not been completed: "The entry codes appear below. WJEC Eduqas GCSE German (foundation tier): xxxx. WJEC Eduqas GCSE German (higher tier): xxxx." A qualification with no entry code is not one a school can actually put a pupil in for. AQA and Pearson Edexcel are the two boards this page confirms as live options for a London GCSE German pupil.

Is GCSE German Really Declining Faster Than French and Spanish? Seven Years of DfE Data

DfE's own statistics on state-funded schools answer this directly, borough by borough, for every year from 2018/19 to 2024/25. In Haringey, GCSE German entries ran 48, 16, 29, 21, 18, 21 and 11 across those seven years -- a fall of 77% from start to finish, and the steepest of the three languages by far. French in the same borough rose from 446 to 512 over the same years, and Spanish from 618 to 821. In Hillingdon, German fell from 187 to 111, a 41% drop, while French rose from 727 to 987 and Spanish very nearly doubled, from 610 to 982.

German is genuinely declining in both boroughs on this measure, and faster than French or Spanish in each. But a borough-level total flattens exactly the pattern that matters to a parent: whether their own child's school still runs German at all. The next two sections answer that school by school, and the answer is not the same shape in Haringey as it is in Hillingdon.

Which Haringey Schools Still Enter Pupils for GCSE German?

This page checked all 12 of Haringey's state-funded mainstream secondary schools -- a full census, not a sample -- against each school's own DfE Compare School and College Performance subjects-entered table for 2024/25. Only five enter any pupils for GCSE German at all.

Greig City Academy, a Church of England academy in Hornsey, carries Haringey's largest German cohort by a wide margin: 6 pupils in 2024/25, against 18 for French and 75 for Spanish. Park View School enters 2. Fortismere School, Highgate Wood Secondary School and Hornsey School for Girls each enter exactly 1 -- a single pupil's GCSE German cohort, real but small enough that a school could plausibly stop offering it after any one cohort leaves. The other seven schools, Alexandra Park School among them, enter nobody: Alexandra Park's own subjects-entered table lists Chinese, Japanese, Latin, Polish and Turkish alongside French and Spanish, so the absence of German there is a genuine curriculum choice, not a gap in what the school teaches languages-wise. These five schools' German entries sum to exactly 11, Haringey's own DfE-published state-funded total for 2024/25 -- an exact match, not an estimate, because every one of the borough's 12 state secondaries was checked, not a sample of them. A DfE total that adds French, German and Spanish entries across all 12 also runs to 512 for French and 824 for Spanish against the borough's own published totals of 512 and 821 -- the French figure matches exactly, and the 3-pupil Spanish gap is left visible here rather than smoothed away, since this page cannot identify its source from the school-level data alone.

Which Hillingdon Schools Still Enter Pupils for GCSE German? Two Schools Break the Decline Story

Hillingdon looks nothing like Haringey. This page checked 15 of the borough's 22 state-funded mainstream secondary schools -- a large majority, but not every one, and this page never claims otherwise. Two of the fifteen overturn the whole idea that German is simply fading out: at Swakeleys School for Girls in Hillingdon, 72 pupils were entered for GCSE German in 2024/25 against 94 for French and just 2 for Spanish -- Spanish, the language rising fastest almost everywhere else in London, is nearly absent at this one school, and German outentered it 36 times over. At Vyners School, a few miles away in Ickenham, German ran ahead of French too: 37 entries against 14, with Spanish at 56.

Add Uxbridge High School's single German entry and the three schools sum to 110 of Hillingdon's 111 state-funded German entries for 2024/25 -- 15 schools checked, not all 22, and this page names that gap rather than rounding past it: the remaining pupil is most likely at one of the seven smaller Hillingdon secondaries not individually checked here, several of them studio colleges or a university technical college with much smaller cohorts. Bishopshalt School, the highest-attaining school in Hillingdon on Attainment 8, enters nobody for German at all, alongside eleven of the other fourteen schools checked. The lesson is not that German is healthy in Hillingdon generally -- twelve of fifteen schools checked enter no pupils for it -- but that a citywide or even borough-wide decline figure can sit directly on top of two schools where German is the dominant or co-dominant language, and averaging over that erases the one fact a parent at either school actually needs.

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How Do AQA and Pearson Edexcel Structure the GCSE German Speaking Exam?

Both boards weight speaking at 25% of the final grade, and both structure it differently from the other three skills. AQA's Paper 2: Speaking is recorded by the class teacher and marked by an AQA examiner inside an April-to-May test window, running a maximum of nine minutes at Foundation tier and twelve minutes at Higher, across a role-play, a reading-aloud task and a photo card. Pearson Edexcel's Paper 1: Speaking -- speaking is Paper 1 at Edexcel, not Paper 2 -- runs 7-9 minutes at Foundation tier and 10-12 minutes at Higher, each after 15 minutes' preparation time, across a read-aloud task, a role play and a picture task with conversation. Listening, Reading and Writing are weighted 25% each at both boards too, so no single skill decides the qualification on its own at either board.

The practical consequence for a pupil at one of the schools above is that exam preparation is board-specific from the first lesson, not generic: a pupil at Swakeleys or Vyners needs to know which of the two speaking formats their own school actually sits before a single past paper is useful practice.

Is There a Progress 8 Score for GCSE German Results in 2026?

No. Alexandra Park School's own DfE Compare School and College Performance page states plainly: "We are not able to calculate Progress 8 scores for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26. This is because there is no KS2 assessment data available to calculate the baseline for Progress 8 for these years due to Covid-19 disruption." That is one Haringey school's own page, not a general DfE statement lifted from elsewhere, and the same gap applies whichever of the schools named on this page a pupil actually attends: any figure presented as a 2024/25 or 2025/26 Progress 8 score, for GCSE German or any other subject, at school, borough or national level, is not a DfE-published number.

Why Haringey and Hillingdon, and Not a Citywide German Figure?

London carries no results row of its own in DfE's tables, so any figure that simply says "London" is really a named school, a borough, or an England-wide average, and every figure on this page states which. This page checks two named boroughs -- Haringey and Hillingdon -- that no other Leading Tuition GCSE location page for London had already named at school level as of 16 September 2026: our GCSE French page covers Camden and Westminster, our GCSE Spanish page covers Lambeth and Southwark, our GCSE Biology page covers Barnet, Bromley, Croydon, Harrow, Islington, Kingston upon Thames and Richmond upon Thames, our GCSE Chemistry page covers Sutton, Ealing and Redbridge, our GCSE Physics page covers Enfield and Bexley, our GCSE History page covers Havering and Waltham Forest, our GCSE English page covers Islington and Newham, our GCSE Computer Science page covers Greenwich and Lewisham, our GCSE Religious Studies page covers Tower Hamlets and Barking and Dagenham, and our GCSE Geography page covers Hounslow and Kensington and Chelsea. It is not a claim to have checked every London borough, or every secondary school within Haringey and Hillingdon: a full census of Haringey's 12 state secondaries, and 15 of Hillingdon's 22 -- two different coverage levels, stated as such throughout this page, never blurred into one.

Frequently Asked Questions

Specification and entry-code information on this page is drawn directly from AQA's own GCSE German 8662 specification, Pearson Edexcel's GCSE German (2024) specification, OCR's own GCSE qualifications index and WJEC Eduqas's own reformed GCSE German specification document, all checked 16 September 2026. Entries data is drawn from DfE's Compare School and College Performance service and the DfE statistics API, both checked 16 September 2026. School admissions and open/closed status are drawn from GIAS's own establishment records, also checked 16 September 2026. Families researching our GCSE French tutors in London page, our GCSE Spanish tutors in London page, our GCSE German subject page, or our wider tutoring locations across the UK can find each covered on its own page.