GCSE Statistics Tutors in Nottingham: Seven State-Funded Schools Enter It, Three Take Most

GCSE Statistics is an optional extra GCSE, and Nottingham's state schools take it up very unevenly. Of the twenty state-funded Nottingham schools publishing a GCSE Mathematics entry row for summer 2025, seven entered anyone at all for Statistics. Their entries total 538 — exactly the figure the Department for Education publishes for the whole local authority — and three of the seven account for 490 of them.

Which State-Funded Nottingham Schools Entered Pupils for GCSE Statistics in Summer 2025

The Department for Education publishes subject entries for individual schools as well as for local authorities, and the two can be checked against each other. Across the thirty-two secondary-phase establishments the Compare School and College Performance service lists for Nottingham local authority, twenty-four publish a GCSE Mathematics entry row for pupils who finished key stage 4 in summer 2025. Twenty of those twenty-four are state-funded; the other four are independent schools. Eight schools in the city publish a GCSE Statistics row, and seven of those eight are state-funded.

That is the set this page checked, and every figure below belongs to it. It is not a sample of Nottingham schools and it is not a list of schools that happen to have websites mentioning the subject.

Those seven numbers add up: 282 plus 139 plus 69 plus 33 plus 13 plus 1 plus 1 is 538, and 538 is exactly what the Department publishes for Nottingham local authority as a whole.

What makes that list the whole list is the query rather than the arithmetic. The Department's institution-level file returns exactly eight GCSE Statistics rows for Nottingham across every qualification type it carries, seven of them state-funded, and that enumerates every school in the authority it publishes a Statistics row for. The exact agreement with the local-authority total is corroboration that none is missing, not proof of it: the same two files do not agree for Mathematics, where the state-funded school rows sum to 3,373 against a published 3,371. A two-entry gap on one subject means the two files are not guaranteed to be on identical bases, so an exact match on another subject is consistent with the list being exhaustive without establishing it. On that evidence the seven above are the schools the Department publishes GCSE Statistics entries for in Nottingham, and nothing on this page rests on reading a school's absence from a file as a zero.

One school sits just outside that total. Hollygirt School, an independent school in the city, entered 3 pupils against a key stage 4 cohort of 51. The local-authority data set covers state-funded schools only, which is precisely why those 3 are not inside the 538 — they are published in the school-level data set and correctly excluded from the authority figure. Hollygirt itself publishes no GCSE (9-1) Full Course Mathematics row, so it appears in this data for Statistics and not for Maths. The four Nottingham independents that do publish a Mathematics row — Nottingham High School, Nottingham Girls' High School GDST, Jamia Al-Hudaa Residential College and FUEL — have no Statistics row at all.

Thirteen state-funded Nottingham schools publish a GCSE Mathematics row and no GCSE Statistics row: Bluecoat Aspley Academy, Bluecoat Beechdale Academy, Bluecoat Wollaton Academy, Djanogly City Academy, Ellis Guilford School, Farnborough Spencer Academy, Park Vale Academy, The Bulwell Academy, The Nottingham Emmanuel School, The Oakwood Academy and The Trinity Catholic School A Voluntary Academy, together with the special schools Westbury Academy and Woodlands Academy. Ellis Guilford alone published 267 GCSE Mathematics entries and thirty-two other subject rows, none of them Statistics.

Eight of the thirty-two secondary-phase establishments publish no GCSE Mathematics row at all for summer 2025, and not one of them is counted anywhere on this page as a school that entered nobody. Bluecoat Trent Academy has no key stage 4 subject data published at all. The Department's own page for it gives the standard reasons: a recent change of school type, or that "the school had no pupils who completed key stage 4 in 2024 — for example, because the school is new and pupils have so far only completed the first few years of their studies". Get Information About Schools records it as open, ages 11 to 16, opened on 1 September 2021. Crisp Vocational Provision opened on 19 June 2026, after the year this data covers.

The other six are Hollygirt School, which publishes a Statistics row and no Mathematics one; three state-funded special schools — Nethergate Academy, an academy special converter run by Greenwood Academies Trust and open since 1 March 2012, and the community special schools Oak Field School and Rosehill School; Sutherland House School, a non-maintained special school open since 6 December 2004; and Take 1 Learning Centre, an independent centre for 14 to 16-year-olds open since 5 October 2017. All six are recorded as open on Get Information About Schools. An absent row is a row that has not been published, not a zero, and none of these eight schools appears above among those with no Statistics entries.

Every school named on this page was checked on Get Information About Schools on 17 September 2026. All seven entrants are recorded as open, in Nottingham local authority, with no closure date.

Why 490 of Nottingham's 538 State-Funded GCSE Statistics Entries Came From Three Schools in One Academy Trust

The total is not the interesting number. The distribution is. Three of the seven entrants — Nottingham Academy with 282, The Wells Academy with 139 and Nottingham Girls' Academy with 69 — account for 490 of the 538, which is 91.1% of the entries the Department publishes for Nottingham's state-funded schools. Measured against every published Nottingham entry, which is 541 once Hollygirt School's 3 are added, the same three schools hold 90.6%. All three are run by Greenwood Academies Trust, according to their Get Information About Schools records.

The next three entrants are all Nova Education Trust schools: Nottingham University Academy of Science and Technology with 33, Nottingham University Samworth Academy with 13 and Nottingham Free School with 1, making 47 between them. The seventh, Fernwood School, is a single-academy trust in its own right — Get Information About Schools records it under The Fernwood Academy Trust — and it entered one. Six further trusts run mainstream secondaries in Nottingham, and between them they published no GCSE Statistics entries at all.

This is a description of who entered pupils, not a statement about what any trust decided. The Department for Education publishes entries; it does not publish curriculum policy, and no trust quoted here has said anything about GCSE Statistics that this page can cite. What the pattern does mean, practically, is that for a Nottingham family the question "does my child's school do GCSE Statistics" is answered almost entirely by which school they are at, rather than by anything about the child.

The scale at the top of that list is worth spelling out. Nottingham Academy recorded 282 GCSE Statistics entries against a key stage 4 cohort of 287 pupils, and 286 Mathematics entries. The Wells Academy recorded 139 against a cohort of 144 pupils, and 145 Mathematics entries. At both schools the Statistics entry count is running at essentially the whole year group, in the same range as the compulsory Mathematics entry. Nottingham Girls' Academy sits lower, at 69 against a 156-pupil cohort, and Nottingham University Academy of Science and Technology lower again at 33 against 122. At Fernwood School and Nottingham Free School the figure is a single entry each, against cohorts of 297 and 119 pupils.

That spread is the practical difference between a subject a school timetables for everybody and a subject one pupil has arranged around the edges. A parent at Nottingham Academy is asking how to do well in an exam their child will almost certainly sit. A parent at a school in the thirteen is asking something else entirely, and this site's national guide to GCSE Statistics sets out the private-candidate and new-centre rules that answer it, quoted from the specification.

What Nottingham's Seven-Year State-Funded Entry Series Does and Does Not Show

The Department for Education publishes local-authority subject entries back to 2018/2019, so Nottingham has a seven-year run. It is not a smooth line, and the honest description of it is that it zigzags.

Read from the right-hand end, the shape is: almost nothing before 2021/2022, then 304, 434 and 567 across the three years from 2021/2022 to 2023/2024, then a fall of 29 to 538. It is not a subject in sustained growth in Nottingham and it is not one in decline. The most recent movement is downward.

The two pandemic years have to be taken out of any trend reading, and the Department says so in its own key stage 4 methodology: "Due to the cancellation of exam assessment and the shift in methodology and checking as outlined above, 2020 and 2021 data should not be compared to previous years' attainment data for the purposes of measuring changes in pupil performance." The 2019/2020 grades were centre assessed grades and the 2020/2021 grades were teacher assessed grades. The rule deciding which entries count also changed for exactly those two years: the same methodology records that "Following the change made for 2019/20 academic year GCSE results, all results from summer 2021 are governed by best entry discounting rules, rather than first entry rules", and first-entry rules returned afterwards. So the entry counts for those years sit on a different basis as well as the grades.

Nottingham's 2020/2021 figure is 1. That is a published, unsuppressed value rather than a rounding floor: the Department's data guidance for this release states that "No suppression has been applied above school level", and its methodology adds that where a breakdown leaves only one pupil in a geographical area, "this information has not been suppressed". But it falls inside the year the Department says not to compare, so this page reports it and builds nothing on it. The usable run for Nottingham starts at 2021/2022.

One more caution about reading this series. A year with no published row is a year with no published row; the Department does not state anywhere that an absent row means zero entries, and this page does not treat absence as a zero. Nottingham happens to have a published row in all seven years, so the question does not bear on any figure here — but it does bear on how anyone should read the same data for another authority.

These are entries, not pupils, and the authority total includes its special schools, so the right-hand column is a ratio of entries and not a participation rate. The counts are taken from the Department's Subject pupil level local authority data set, and the ratio is derived from the two raw counts rather than from any published percentage.

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How Nottingham's State-Funded GCSE Statistics Results Compare With England's

Two things are true about Nottingham at once, and they point in opposite directions. The city enters GCSE Statistics far more heavily than England does, and its entries reach grade 4 or above far less often.

On uptake, Nottingham is an outlier. Its 538 Statistics entries are 15.96 for every 100 GCSE Mathematics entries in the same schools and the same year. The same calculation across England gives 5.18 per 100, and across the separate Nottinghamshire county authority 6.95 per 100. Both ratios are derived from the raw counts, not from a rounded percentage.

Nottinghamshire is worth naming explicitly because the two authorities are routinely both called "Nottingham" and they are not the same place in this data. Nottinghamshire is the surrounding county, a separate Department for Education local authority with its own figures, and none of the school-level detail on this page belongs to it.

On grades, the direction reverses. Of Nottingham's 538 Statistics entries, 285 reached grade 4 or above, which the Department publishes as 53%. Across England the same measure is 21,705 of 31,402, published as 69%. Within Nottingham itself, GCSE Mathematics ran at 2,211 of 3,371, published as 66%, against 436,677 of 606,761 nationally, published as 72%. So the gap between the two subjects is about 13 percentage points inside Nottingham and about 3 nationally.

Nothing on this page draws a causal line between those two findings. Entering a subject widely and passing it at a particular rate are separate measurements, and the published data does not say which pupils were entered, at what prior attainment, or why. What can be said is narrower and more useful to a parent: in Nottingham, GCSE Statistics is both much more commonly sat and harder to clear grade 4 in than the national picture would suggest, and a family adding it as a ninth or tenth GCSE should plan for it rather than assume it follows from GCSE Maths.

One comparison this page deliberately does not make is with the UK-wide entry figures published by the Joint Council for Qualifications. Those count exam entries across the whole United Kingdom, including independent schools and post-16 resits; the figures above count pupils at the end of key stage 4 in state-funded schools in England. They are different populations on different bases and should never be set side by side. This site's national GCSE Statistics guide carries the JCQ picture, and our Nottingham GCSE Maths page carries the city's wider maths attainment, including its EBacc entry rate.

What GCSE Statistics Is Worth in a Nottingham School's Results, and What It Is Not

There is a concrete accountability answer to the question of whether GCSE Statistics "counts", and the Department for Education gives it by name. Its Secondary accountability measures guidance for the 2024 to 2025 academic year says: "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."

Two consequences follow. First, GCSE Statistics is not an EBacc subject. The Department's own 2024/25 key stage 4 release describes the measure as covering "the five pillars of the EBacc - English, maths, science, a language, and history or geography", and Statistics is in none of them. The same guidance says that "Only maths qualifications which also count towards the EBacc can count in the maths bucket of Attainment 8", so it cannot substitute for GCSE Maths in the double-weighted maths slot either.

Second, it does count somewhere: in one of the three open slots of Attainment 8, and it can do that alongside the pupil's GCSE Maths rather than instead of it. For a school, that is a real but bounded benefit. For a pupil, it is an additional full GCSE on the certificate. Neither of those is a reason to take it or to avoid it on its own, but it is the mechanism behind the pattern in the table above, and it is the honest answer to a parent who has been told the subject either "counts double" or "doesn't count".

The qualification itself is unchanged and still offered. AQA's own live GCSE qualification list carried GCSE Statistics (8382) when it was read on 17 September 2026, and Pearson still publishes an Edexcel GCSE Statistics qualification. Which board any individual Nottingham school uses is not in the Department's data, which records subject and qualification type but not awarding body, so the school's exams officer is the authority on that. For the paper structure, the formulae that are given and the ones that must be memorised, this site has separate guides to AQA GCSE Statistics and Edexcel GCSE Statistics, and they are the right place to go once the board is known.

How individual Nottingham schools choose between optional subjects is a pattern worth seeing more than once; this site's Nottingham GCSE Business Studies page sets out the same kind of school-by-school split for a different optional subject in the same city.

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