A-Level Further Maths Tutors in Nottingham 2026

A-level Further Maths is taught by at least ten Nottingham sixth forms and colleges, on three different exam boards: AQA at Bilborough College and Djanogly City Academy, Pearson Edexcel 9FM0 at Nottingham University Academy of Science and Technology (NUAST), and OCR B (MEI) at Nottingham College’s High Pavement Sixth Form. In 2024/25 those ten providers entered 116 students between them, from a single entry at two colleges to 32 at both Bilborough and NUAST.

Which specification each Nottingham sixth form enters for Further Maths, and the applied papers that come with it

Four Nottingham providers publish, in their own current course material, both the exam board and the applied option they teach for A-level Further Maths, and all three boards used nationally appear in the city. Bilborough College’s own course page names AQA and describes “three papers: Paper 1 – Pure topics assessed … Paper 2 – Pure topics assessed … Paper 3 – Mechanics and Statistics assessed”. Djanogly City Academy also names AQA, and its own subject page states that “the exams consist of two pure papers and then finally a combined statistics and mechanics paper”. Nottingham University Academy of Science and Technology teaches Pearson Edexcel’s Level 3 Advanced GCE in Further Mathematics, specification code 9FM0, entering “Further Mechanics 1 and Further Statistics 1 as our two optional units”. Nottingham College’s High Pavement Sixth Form lists its qualification simply as “OCR A Level Further Maths B (MEI)”.

The Mechanics-and-Statistics choice at Bilborough and Djanogly is a selection, not the only route AQA offers: AQA’s specification 7367 also publishes a Discrete-and-Statistics pairing and a Mechanics-and-Discrete pairing for Paper 3, so both Nottingham AQA departments have picked the same one of three available routes. Nottingham Girls’ High School’s 2026/2027 prospectus sets out a four-paper structure — two Core Pure papers plus two more from Further Statistics 1, Further Mechanics 1 and Decision Mathematics 1 — without stating which two of the three its department actually enters, and without naming an exam board at all. Nottingham High School lists Further Maths among its A-level subjects and offers it as a fourth option alongside three others, but its own subject page likewise names no exam board.

Board-by-board detail for AQA’s Further Maths specification, Pearson Edexcel’s 9FM0 and OCR’s two Further Maths routes sits on Leading Tuition’s national board pages, along with what Ofqual requires of every specification on the national A-level Further Maths page, which this page does not repeat.

The Year 12 split: Bilborough enters every Further Maths student for an AS, Nottingham Girls’ High School enters none

Bilborough College’s own course page states that, “due to the nature of the course, students will all take the AS Further Maths examination at the end of year 12” — a whole-cohort policy, not an effect of scale. In 2024/25 it entered 64 students for the Further Maths AS and 32 for the full A-level, against Bluecoat Aspley Academy’s 4 AS entries and NUAST’s 1 in the same year. Nottingham Girls’ High School sits at the opposite end of the same decision: its 2026/2027 prospectus states plainly that “AS Levels are no longer taken at the end of Year 12”, and it recorded no AS Further Maths entries in the same DfE data. Between those two positions sit NUAST and Bluecoat Aspley, entering a handful of AS candidates rather than an entire cohort.

The AS papers Bilborough’s Year 12s sit are shorter and narrower than the eventual A-level: “Paper 1 – Pure topics assessed (1hr30)” and “Paper 2 – Mechanics and Statistics assessed (1hr30)”, against 2-hour papers at A-level. A department that enters every student for this exam is building a formal checkpoint into Year 12 that a department entering none is not, and that difference in structure — not a difference in cohort size — is what a family moving between the two systems needs to plan around.

The GCSE grade that gets you in is not the same across the city

Every Nottingham provider that publishes a GCSE gate for Further Maths sets it a grade above its own gate for single Mathematics, but the figure itself is not the same city-wide. NUAST’s admissions page asks for “a Grade 7 in GCSE Mathematics” to study A-level Mathematics and “a Grade 8” to add Further Mathematics, above a general Level 3 gate of “a Grade 6 in at least five GCSE subjects”. Bilborough College asks for “at least a grade 8 in GCSE Mathematics” and teaches the subject “in combination with Mathematics, counting as two subjects”. Nottingham Girls’ High School’s 2026/2027 prospectus sets the same figure: “Grade 8 in GCSE Mathematics”.

Two providers publish a lower gate. Djanogly City Academy asks for “at least a 7 in GCSE maths”, with GCSE Further Maths itself “a recommended GCSE” rather than a requirement. Nottingham College’s High Pavement Sixth Form sets its Further Maths gate inside its general A-level entry rule: “Maths at grade 6 or above” to study three A-levels, rising for a four-subject programme. Across the five providers that publish a figure, the practical target for a Nottingham Year 11 ranges from a 6 to an 8, and it is set by the sixth form rather than the exam board: Bilborough and Djanogly both teach AQA, at grade 8 and grade 7 respectively.

Which Nottingham providers we could confirm are still teaching it, and what the outcome data cannot settle

A 2024/25 DfE entry does not by itself prove a subject is still taught in 2026: sixth forms revise their course lists from one year to the next, and a subject named in an earlier prospectus can disappear from a live course guide without any public announcement. Checked here against each provider’s own current material, six of Nottingham’s ten 2024/25 entrants confirm Further Maths on their live 2026 course pages: Bilborough College, NUAST, Nottingham High School, Nottingham Girls’ High School, Djanogly City Academy and Nottingham College’s High Pavement Sixth Form. Three more could not be confirmed either way from published material: The Trinity Catholic School’s own curriculum list names Mathematics and not Further Maths; Bluecoat Aspley Academy’s Sixth Form section is a post-16 signposting page with no course list of its own; and The Nottingham Emmanuel School’s Sixth Form course information sits only in a booklet that returned an HTTP 403 error to a direct request.

Fourteen institutions carry a Nottingham local-authority record, 892, in DfE’s 2024/25 subject value-added dataset. One, Hollygirt School, has no sixth form: both DfE’s own Compare service and its own listing on GOV.UK’s Get Information about Schools service give it an age range of “10 to 16” and record it as open, with no 16-to-18 subjects-entered page and no Further Maths row of its own — it appears under the local-authority code without teaching post-16 students at all. Of the remaining thirteen, three — Nottingham Free School, Nottingham Girls’ Academy and Nottingham University Samworth Academy — have 16-to-18 data but no Mathematics (Further) entry, leaving ten institutions with an actual 2024/25 Further Maths entry.

Of those ten value-added rows, five are suppressed by DfE for a small cohort and five are published. Bilborough College is the only one of the ten whose confidence interval clears zero: a value-added score of +0.46, with an interval of 0.05 to 0.87 — a lower bound just above zero — from 31 matched students. This is DfE’s value-added progress measure for 2024/25 entrants; it is not a measure of teaching quality. The remaining four published rows all have intervals spanning zero, which under this page’s significance rule means none of them is a finding: NUAST at -0.12 (interval -0.53 to 0.3, 30 matched students), Nottingham High School at -0.32 (-0.78 to 0.15, 24 students), Nottingham College at -0.16 (-1.09 to 0.77, 6 students) and The Trinity Catholic School at 0.33 (-0.6 to 1.27, 6 students).

Nottingham’s ten Further Maths entrants are not evenly sized. Bilborough College, NUAST and Nottingham High School between them entered 88 of the city’s 116 Further Maths students in 2024/25 (75.9%) — a concentration Leading Tuition’s Nottingham A-level Maths page sets out with the full per-provider entry table for both subjects. This page does not repeat that table; what it adds is which specification and which applied papers each of the ten actually teaches, and which of them we could confirm are still doing so in 2026.

How Leading Tuition teaches A-level Further Maths in Nottingham

Our expert A-level Further Maths tutors work with students across Nottingham on whichever specification and applied papers their own sixth form has actually entered them for — AQA’s Mechanics-and-Statistics route at Bilborough College and Djanogly City Academy, Pearson Edexcel’s Further Mechanics 1 and Further Statistics 1 units at NUAST, or OCR B (MEI) at Nottingham College’s High Pavement Sixth Form — rather than a generic further-maths revision course built around none of them. Full detail on who our programmes suit sits on Leading Tuition’s national Further Maths tuition page.

Where a Year 12 sits an AS at the end of their first year, as Bilborough’s cohort does, our sessions build toward that formal checkpoint rather than treating the two years as one continuous course; where a sixth form no longer sets an AS, as at Nottingham Girls’ High School, the same two years of teaching are paced differently. For a student whose current sixth form does not offer Further Maths at all — or one of the three Nottingham providers whose current position we could not confirm — our tutors also support the Core Pure content independently, alongside a family’s own conversation with the school about entry.

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