GCSE Statistics Tutors in London: Haringey Entered 281, Wandsworth 5

In 2024/25 Haringey recorded 281 GCSE Statistics pupil entries and Wandsworth recorded 5, against 2,605 and 1,965 GCSE Maths entries respectively. DfE's school-level subject data names five schools in each borough with GCSE Statistics entries, and in Wandsworth four of those five entered one pupil apiece.

This page checks Haringey and Wandsworth school by school, sets Southwark and Hillingdon beside them at borough level only, and makes no claim about London as a whole. The qualification itself is covered on our GCSE Statistics subject page.

Which Haringey and Wandsworth Schools Entered GCSE Statistics in 2024/25?

The figures below come from DfE's Subject school level exam data for 2024/25, which DfE describes as covering subject entries and grades achieved in schools and colleges in the performance tables data. That is not a state-funded-only dataset: it carries independent and special schools too, which is why the counted set below is described as the schools appearing in that dataset rather than as a borough's state secondaries. Eighteen Haringey schools appear in it and twenty-five Wandsworth schools. The figures are exam entries in GCSE (9-1) Full Course Statistics, and the cohort column is each school's own count of pupils at the end of key stage 4.

One school carries the borough. Heartlands High School's 195 GCSE Statistics entries sit against a year group of 233 pupils at the end of key stage 4 and 233 GCSE Maths entries -- roughly five Statistics entries for every six pupils in the cohort. St Thomas More Catholic School adds 58. The other three are in single or low double figures, and Harris Academy Tottenham's 4 entries came from a cohort of 187. The five schools sum to 280 exam entries against the 281 pupil entries DfE publishes for Haringey in its separate local-authority dataset. The two datasets are built on different bases and neither publishes a footnote explaining the difference, so this page states both figures and offers no mechanism for the gap -- and, because of it, does not claim these five are every Haringey school that entered anybody.

Wandsworth is the opposite shape. Five schools have a GCSE Statistics row and four of them entered a single pupil.

Those five rows are the whole list. Querying the same school-level file for Statistics in Wandsworth under any qualification type, rather than only the full-course GCSE, returns exactly those five schools, so every Wandsworth school carrying a published Statistics row is named above. They sum to six exam entries against the borough's published total of five, and GIAS accounts for the difference: it records Thames Christian School as an Other independent school, and the local-authority file covers state-funded schools only. Remove it and the remaining four sum to exactly 5.

That agreement is corroboration, not proof. An exact match would only establish that no state-funded school is missing if the two files were built on the same basis, and Haringey immediately above is the nearest demonstration that they are not always: 280 against 281, in the same subject and the same year. So what this page claims for Wandsworth is that the five named schools are every school with a published Statistics row, and that the four state-funded ones agree with the borough total -- consistent with nothing being missed, and more than can be said for Haringey, where the two files disagree outright. Every school named on this page was checked on GIAS on 17 September 2026 and every one is recorded as open, with its local authority and URN confirmed in the record fetched.

How Can One Borough Enter 281 and Its Neighbour 5?

Raw counts flatter the gap, so it is worth deriving the rate from the counts themselves rather than from any rounded percentage. Haringey's 281 Statistics entries sit against 2,605 Maths entries, about one for every nine. Wandsworth's 5 sit against 1,965, about one for every 393. In absolute terms Haringey recorded 56 times as many entries; as a share of each borough's Maths entries its rate is about 42 times Wandsworth's. Southwark and Hillingdon, quoted here at borough level only, land in between.

Two cautions on reading that table. These are entries, not pupils holding a qualification, and a local-authority figure is an aggregate across the borough's state-funded schools, so the right-hand column is a ratio of entries and not a participation rate for any particular year group. England's own rate is about one Statistics entry for every nineteen in Maths, and of the four boroughs here only Haringey sits above it: Hillingdon, Southwark and Wandsworth are all below the national rate, Wandsworth furthest by a wide margin. None of that describes a London norm, and this page does not offer one, because four boroughs are not London.

What Can the Seven-Year Haringey and Wandsworth Series Actually Tell You?

DfE publishes seven academic years, 2018/19 to 2024/25. Written out, neither borough gives a straight line.

The temptation is to narrate that as a Haringey rise and a Wandsworth collapse. DfE's own key stage 4 methodology rules most of that out. It 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", and, more to the point for a count of entries, that the discounting rule deciding which entries count at all changed for exactly those two years: "all results from summer 2021 are governed by best entry discounting rules, rather than first entry rules", the sole exception to the normal position that only a pupil's first attempt counts. Two further years are also off the current basis: of 2022/23 the same document says "Results achieved between January 2020 and August 2021, by pupils included in 2022/23 measures, are not included in the calculations", and it records the same exclusion for 2021/22 alongside "the return of first entry discounting rules".

That leaves 2018/19, 2023/24 and 2024/25 on comparable footing. On those three years Haringey runs 140, 276 and 281, and Wandsworth 173, 54 and 5. The middle four years are real published figures and are printed above rather than hidden, but no line is drawn through them here.

One mechanism explains a good deal of the year-to-year movement, and it is specific to this subject: in the same DfE release, across all schools, 8,433 of the GCSE Statistics entries counted for pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/25 were taken in the penultimate year rather than the final one, against 1,983 for GCSE Maths -- an early-entry pattern that shifts counts between cohort years and is exactly what the January 2020 to August 2021 exclusion removed. That is DfE's year-of-entry measure for pupils at the end of key stage 4, which is a different measure from the UK-wide age breakdown quoted on our GCSE Statistics subject page.

The other thing worth settling is whether a very small figure means what it appears to mean. Wandsworth's 2020/21 value is 1, and Wandsworth's 2024/25 value is 5. Neither is a rounded or suppressed number. DfE states that for the 2025 provisional statistical release "it has been assessed and determined that no suppression of data is required", and that where a combination of characteristics results in only one pupil in a geographical area "this information has not been suppressed". The count-based rule in this publication -- "any figures relating to a cohort of 5 pupils or fewer will be suppressed" -- applies to the school level data on the school performance data website, not to the borough figures used here. A 1 is one. What this page does not do is treat a year with no published row, as Southwark has for 2018/19 and 2019/20 and Hillingdon for 2020/21, as a confirmed zero: DfE nowhere states that an absent row means no entries, so no sentence here rests on one.

Families across Haringey and Wandsworth on Trustpilot:

Does GCSE Statistics Count for Anything in a School's Performance Measures?

This is the question behind the uptake gap, because a subject that earns a school nothing is a subject a timetable drops first. The answer has two halves and DfE publishes both.

On the English Baccalaureate the answer is no. DfE's workbook of key stage 4 qualifications counting in the English Baccalaureate, dated as at June 2026, lists 12 qualifications on its maths sheet -- four GCSE Mathematics specifications from OCR, AQA, Pearson Edexcel and WJEC Eduqas, then eight AS-level Mathematics and Further Mathematics qualifications, ending at OCR's Advanced Subsidiary GCE in Mathematics B (MEI). The string Statistics appears on none of the workbook's eight sheets. That workbook also records that "from academic year 2025 to 2026 onwards, English Baccalaureate (EBacc) headline and additional measures are being removed from key stage 4 performance measures", while the list itself still determines eligibility for, in its own words, "some of the Progress 8 and Attainment 8 slots".

On Attainment 8 the answer is yes, and DfE names the subject. Its secondary accountability measures guidance says that "approved mathematical type qualifications that do not count towards the EBacc, for example GCSE statistics, can be counted in a slot in the 'open' bucket of Attainment 8 regardless of whether a pupil has also taken an EBacc maths qualification". The open bucket "contains the 3 highest point scores in any 3 other subjects". So a Heartlands or a Burntwood pupil sitting GCSE Statistics alongside GCSE Maths can have both count, in different slots -- which is a real, published incentive, and one reason a school that already teaches the content to a strong maths set may decide the extra entry is worth making.

One measure is missing entirely, and no figure for it appears on this page: the same guidance confirms that "there will be no replacement for Progress 8 for 2024 to 2025 and 2025 to 2026". Any Progress 8 score quoted for a Haringey or Wandsworth school for either of those years is not a DfE-published number.

Do Haringey and Wandsworth Maths Results Predict Statistics Uptake?

They do not, and the two boroughs prove it in opposite directions. For 2024/25 DfE records 80 per cent of Wandsworth pupils at grade 9 to 4 in GCSE Maths, a count of 1,570, against 72 per cent and a count of 1,874 in Haringey. The borough with the stronger Maths outcome is the borough that recorded five Statistics entries, and the borough with the weaker one recorded 281. Uptake of an optional extra GCSE is a curriculum and timetable decision, not a readout of how well a borough teaches Maths, and a parent reading a strong Maths table should not assume the Statistics option follows it.

The same holds within a borough. Burntwood School in Wandsworth recorded 243 GCSE Maths exam entries and one GCSE Statistics entry. Highgate Wood Secondary School in Haringey recorded 263 for Maths and 12 for Statistics. Both are large mainstream secondaries entering essentially their whole year group for Maths; the difference between 1 and 12 is a decision about what else the year group is timetabled for, and the only way to know which side of it a particular child sits is to ask the school. If the answer is that no course runs, the private-candidate route is set out on our GCSE Statistics page, and the board-by-board paper structure on our AQA GCSE Statistics 8382 and Edexcel GCSE Statistics 1ST0 pages. For the compulsory subject alongside it, our GCSE Maths tutors in London page covers borough-level Maths results in full.

Frequently Asked Questions About GCSE Statistics in Haringey and Wandsworth

Borough and school entry figures on this page are drawn from the DfE statistics API datasets published with Key stage 4 performance, academic year 2024/25 and listed in its data catalogue, and the rules governing them from DfE's own key stage 4 performance methodology, all read on 17 September 2026. Performance-measure rules come from DfE's secondary accountability measures guidance and its list of EBacc-eligible qualifications. Every school named here was checked against its own GIAS establishment record on 17 September 2026, and DfE's Compare School and College Performance service, which banners its own closure from autumn 2026, was read the same day. Specification codes were re-confirmed on AQA's own GCSE Statistics 8382 specification page and in Pearson's own GCSE (9-1) Statistics 1ST0 specification, with OCR's own GCSE subject index checked on the same date. Families can also read our GCSE Maths tutors in London page, our GCSE Statistics subject page, or our wider tutoring locations across the UK.