GCSE Statistics Tutors in Manchester

GCSE Statistics is an optional additional GCSE that pupils take alongside GCSE Maths, not instead of it. Of the 41 Manchester schools that DfE's 2024/25 school-level key stage 4 subject data records with a GCSE entry row, 16 recorded at least one GCSE Statistics entry and 25 recorded none. Those 16 schools account for all 298 Manchester entries that year.

Which boards examine it, and the route for a pupil whose school does not offer it, are covered on our national GCSE Statistics guide.

Which Manchester schools entered pupils for GCSE Statistics in 2024/25?

Sixteen of the 41 did. The table below is every Manchester school with a GCSE Statistics entry row in DfE's school-level key stage 4 subject data for 2024/25, with the URN and its cohort size at the end of key stage 4.

The sixteen entry counts in that table are 57, 55, 54, 40, 33, 22, 12, 6, 6, 5, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1 and 1. They sum to 298, which is exactly the figure DfE publishes as Manchester's local authority total for GCSE Statistics in a separate data set. The exhaustiveness comes from the file itself rather than from that agreement: it returns GCSE rows for 41 Manchester schools and 16 of them carry a Statistics row, so within the set checked here no other Manchester school entered anyone. The matching total corroborates that list without proving it, because the two files do not share a basis — for GCSE Mathematics the 37 schools in it that carry a Mathematics row sum to 6912 against the authority's 6677.

Uptake inside those sixteen is heavily concentrated. Chorlton High School, Manchester Enterprise Academy, CHS South, St Peter's RC High School and Wright Robinson College sat 239 entries between them, about 80% of Manchester's total. At the other end, six of the sixteen recorded two entries or fewer, and those six accounted for eight entries in all — a pattern that looks like individual pupils rather than a timetabled class. CHS South recorded 54 entries against a cohort of 175 pupils, the highest ratio of entries to cohort of any of the sixteen.

The 25 schools in the same data set with a GCSE row and no GCSE Statistics row are Abbey College Manchester, Cedar Mount Academy, Chetham's School of Music, Co-op Academy Manchester, Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Manchester, Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Manchester, Kassim Darwish Grammar School for Boys, Levenshulme High School, Loreto High School Chorlton, Manchester Academy, Manchester Communication Academy, Manchester High School for Girls, Manchester Islamic Grammar School for Girls, Meade Hill School, Our Lady's RC High School, Parrs Wood High School, Pioneer House High School, Southern Cross School, St Bede's College, St Matthew's RC High School, The King David High School, The Manchester Grammar School, Trinity CofE High School, William Hulme's Grammar School and Withington Girls' School.

That set of 41 is not a list of state-funded secondaries: eight of the 41 are recorded on Get Information about Schools as independent — Chetham's School of Music, Manchester High School for Girls, Manchester Islamic Grammar School for Girls, Kassim Darwish Grammar School for Boys, The Manchester Grammar School, Withington Girls' School, St Bede's College and Abbey College Manchester — and three are special schools, which leaves 30 mainstream state-funded schools. All 41 URNs were opened on Get Information about Schools on 17 and 18 September 2026, and all sixteen with a Statistics entry were recorded as open.

Two of the three special schools converted to academy status rather than closing. Get Information about Schools records Meade Hill School (URN 105614) and Southern Cross School (URN 105623) as closed on 31 December 2024 for the reason Academy Converter, each with an open successor — URN 151406 and URN 151407, both academy special converters that opened on 1 January 2025. The conversion fell inside 2024/25, before that cohort sat its summer 2025 exams, so these results sit under the predecessor URNs.

A further 15 Manchester institutions carry a 2024/25 key stage 4 row but no GCSE entry row at all, so they sit outside this comparison; most are special schools or alternative provision. Three — IncludEd Learning, Manchester Jewish School for Special Education and Sol Christian Academy — have cohorts of five pupils or fewer and carry DfE's suppression marker. None of the 15 is a confirmed zero.

How Manchester's GCSE Statistics entries moved from 2018/19 to 2024/25, and the two years DfE says not to compare

DfE publishes seven academic years of local authority entry counts for this subject. Manchester's run from 28 to 298, alongside a GCSE maths entry count that grew far more modestly, from 4874 to 6677.

Two of those rows cannot be read as part of the trend. In 2019/20 pupils were awarded either a centre assessment grade or an Ofqual-modelled calculated grade, whichever was higher; in 2020/21 the summer exam series was cancelled and grades were, in DfE's words, "determined by teachers based on the range of evidence available and they are referred to as teacher-assessed grades, or TAGs". DfE's key stage 4 methodology is explicit about what follows: "2020 and 2021 data should not be compared to previous years' attainment data for the purposes of measuring changes in pupil performance". The counting rule changed too. For those two years only, results were "governed by best entry discounting rules, rather than first entry rules", so the question of which entry counts was answered differently from every other year in the table.

Set 2019/20 and 2020/21 aside and the five comparable years read 28, 57, 173, 209 and 298 — an increase at every step, with no reversal anywhere in the series. That is worth stating plainly because it is not universal: other English local authorities in the same data set swing up and down between years, and some end the period lower than they started. Manchester does not.

What DfE does not publish is any explanation for that rise, and neither the methodology nor the release offers one, so the shape is a fact about entries and not a diagnosis of why schools changed their options blocks.

Measured against the same authority's GCSE maths entries in the same year, which is the only fair denominator available, Manchester went from roughly one Statistics entry for every 174 maths entries in 2018/19 to one in every 22 in 2024/25. Both ratios are worked from the raw counts rather than from a rounded percentage. They describe entries and not pupils, and because a local authority total covers every state-funded school in the authority, this is a ratio of entries and not a participation rate for any one school.

One question has to be settled before any of these small numbers can be trusted, and it is settled here. The entry totals are not rounded and not suppressed: schools with totals of 1 and 2 are published in full, and the sixteen school totals add up to the 298 the local authority data set publishes. What DfE does withhold is the grade-by-grade breakdown for a school entering five or fewer — seven Manchester schools, 13 entries between them, carry a total and no grade rows. So a published 1 in this data is a literal count of one entry, and it is only the grade detail behind the smallest cohorts that is missing.

How the ten Greater Manchester boroughs compare on GCSE Statistics uptake

Because GCSE Statistics is an option rather than a requirement, uptake varies enormously inside one county. Across the ten Greater Manchester local authorities in 2024/25 Statistics entries as a share of GCSE maths entries run from 15.3% down to 0.3%.

Oldham recorded 522 Statistics entries against 3403 maths entries, a share of about 15.3%, while Wigan recorded 12 against 3802, about 0.3% — the highest and the lowest of the ten. Manchester's own 4.5% ranks fourth of the ten and sits slightly below England, where 31402 Statistics entries were recorded against 606761 maths entries, about 5.2%. Trafford, another Greater Manchester authority, is at 1.5%, so a family weighing up schools in two different authorities can find the subject far more or far less common in the ones available to them. Our GCSE maths tutors in Manchester page covers the very different question of how Manchester and Trafford compare on attainment.

These are local authority figures and DfE attaches its own caveat to them: "Local authority, region, parliamentary constituency figures cover achievements in state-funded schools only. They do not include pupils recently arrived from overseas and so will not match with state-funded figures in the national tables." That is why the borough table and the school table above are not two views of the same population, and why they are kept separate on this page.

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Does GCSE Statistics count in a Manchester school's published results?

It counts, but only in one place, and knowing where changes how a family should read a school's decision not to run it. DfE's EBacc guidance sets out five subject areas: "English language and literature", "maths", "the sciences", "geography or history" and "a language". Statistics is not among them, and DfE's own performance-tables list puts it in a different discount group from the four GCSE Mathematics qualifications, so it is not the qualification that fills the maths pillar and a Statistics entry does nothing for a school's EBacc entry or EBacc average point score.

Attainment 8 is different. DfE's secondary accountability guidance describes it as measuring "attainment across 8 qualifications including: maths (double weighted) and English (double weighted, if both English language and English literature are sat); 3 qualifications that count in the EBacc measures; 3 further qualifications that can be GCSE qualifications (including EBacc subjects) or technical awards from the DfE approved list". GCSE Statistics can fill one of those three open slots, and nothing else.

It does not take the maths slot, and it does not push GCSE Maths out. DfE's list of qualifications counting in the 2026 key stage 4 performance tables gives both GCSE Statistics qualifications the discount code RB71, which the same workbook describes as "Statistics", while all four GCSE Mathematics qualifications carry RB1, described as "Maths (General)". Two different discount groups mean the two results are credited separately. That same list is also a clean check on which boards examine the subject: it contains exactly 2 GCSE Statistics entries, from AQA and from Pearson Edexcel, against four boards for GCSE Mathematics. Our AQA GCSE Statistics 8382 guide sets out that board's paper structure and grade boundaries in full.

What none of this explains is any individual school's choice. DfE publishes the entries and the accountability rules and no reasons, so the honest answer to "why does our school not run it" is that the published data does not say, and the school itself is the only source that can.

What the 298 Manchester entries actually scored in 2024/25

Of Manchester's 298 GCSE Statistics entries, 134 were graded 9 to 4, 85 were graded 9 to 5 and 259 were graded anywhere on the 9 to 1 scale. DfE publishes those first two as 45% and 29% of entries. Across England, 21705 of 31402 entries reached grade 9 to 4 and 15822 reached grade 9 to 5, which DfE publishes as 69% and 50%.

That is a wide gap and it should be read carefully. These are counts of entries, not of pupils, and the composition behind them is not published. An authority where several schools enter a whole year group will produce a very different distribution from one where only a top set is entered, and Manchester contains both patterns inside the same sixteen schools: CHS South recorded 54 entries against a 175-pupil cohort while four schools recorded a single entry each. Nothing in the data attributes the difference to teaching, to pupils or to anything else.

The share of entries receiving any grade on the 9 to 1 scale also differs: 259 of Manchester's 298, about 87%, against 30158 of England's 31402, about 96%. DfE's school-level data defines the two categories outside that range as grade U, "pupils' results which are ungraded or unclassified", and grade X, "pupils who were absent or whose results are pending". The local authority data set does not split Manchester's remaining entries between the two, so this page does not either.

For a family weighing the subject up, the conclusion is narrower than the headline gap. The qualification is small, concentrated in a handful of Manchester schools, and its grade profile reflects who those schools entered as much as anything else — which is why a school's own account of how it teaches and enters the course matters more than the citywide figure. Our Edexcel GCSE Statistics guide covers what the papers themselves demand.

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