Oxfordshire's 2024/25 GCSE maths results, school by school, because Oxford itself has none of its own.
Book a Free ConsultationOxford has no GCSE results of its own from the Department for Education, because Oxfordshire County Council is the single local authority covering the city, so every official figure below is county-wide. The Cherwell School, Oxford’s largest comprehensive, scored 11.5 for the GCSE maths element of Attainment 8 in the 2024/25 results, against Oxfordshire’s county average of 9.3 and England’s 9.1. Leading Tuition’s expert GCSE maths tutors work with students at Oxford’s own schools, not a city-wide average.
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Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppSearch for GCSE results in Oxford and the Department for Education has nothing filed under that name, because Oxford is not a local education authority. Oxfordshire County Council describes itself plainly on its own website: “We're the local authority for Oxfordshire, committed to delivering top quality services and value for money on behalf of the county's 600,000+ residents,” and its schools page confirms the same scope, covering “all the latest information about primary and secondary schools in Oxfordshire” as a whole, not the city on its own. Every GCSE figure the DfE publishes at local-authority level for this part of England is therefore filed under Oxfordshire, spanning far more than the ring road: Banbury, Bicester, Didcot, Witney, Abingdon, Thame, Wallingford and Wantage all sit inside the same county-wide figure as Oxford itself, across 367 schools and colleges in total.
This differs from a city such as Bristol, Nottingham or Leicester, each of which is its own unitary local authority and gets its own row in DfE's tables. Oxford has a city council and a county council, but only the county council runs education: Oxfordshire County Council covers the whole county, and DfE's local-authority figures follow that boundary exactly. A parent searching for “Oxford GCSE results” and landing on a county-wide figure has not found the wrong data by mistake — there is simply no narrower official figure to find.
That does not make the county data useless for an Oxford family. It means reading it correctly: a county average blends Oxford's own secondary schools with schools in nearby market towns, and the honest way to see how Oxford's own schools are actually doing is to look at those named schools directly — which the next two sections of this page do, starting with how the whole county compares to England, then narrowing to Oxford's own schools by name.
The Department for Education's Key Stage 4 performance release covers exams sat in the summer of 2025, with grades announced on 21 August 2025 and revised figures published through 2026. In the 2024/25 results, 75% of pupils at Oxfordshire's state-funded schools achieved grade 4 or above in GCSE Mathematics, three percentage points above England's 72%. At grade 5 or above — the more demanding “strong pass” threshold — Oxfordshire reached 57%, four points above England's 53%. On the combined English & maths measure, Oxfordshire's rates were 70% at grade 4+ and 51% at grade 5+, both ahead of the England figures of 67% and 47%.
| Measure (2024/25) | Oxfordshire | England |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 4+ in GCSE Mathematics | 75% | 72% |
| Grade 5+ in GCSE Mathematics | 57% | 53% |
| Grade 4+ English & maths combined | 70% | 67% |
| Grade 5+ English & maths combined | 51% | 47% |
| Attainment 8 score (overall) | 46.4 | 46.1 |
| Attainment 8 score, maths element | 9.3 | 9.1 |
The seven-year trend behind that maths grade 4+ figure follows the same pandemic-era shape seen nationally: Oxfordshire's rate started at 74% in 2018/19, climbed to 80% in both 2019/20 and 2020/21 — the two years GCSE grades were set by teacher assessment rather than exams, because of the pandemic — then eased back through 78%, 73% and 73% before settling at 75% in 2024/25 as fully exam-based grading returned. England's national rate followed an almost identical shape over the same seven years, from 72% up to a 78% peak and back down to 72% by 2024/25, which means Oxfordshire's lead over England on this measure (72% vs 75% in the final year) has held rather than closed as the COVID-era grading distortion unwound.
Oxfordshire's overall Attainment 8 score of 46.4 in 2024/25 sits 0.3 points above England's 46.1, and its maths-element score of 9.3 is 0.2 points above England's 9.1 — a modest lead but a consistent one across every measure checked for this page.
One measure is deliberately absent from the table above, and it is missing everywhere, not just for Oxfordshire. The Department for Education states plainly that “progress measures will not be published for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 academic years as KS4 pupils in these years did not have KS2 assessments due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” so no city, county or school anywhere in England can report a current Progress 8 score for either year. The grade-threshold and Attainment 8 figures above, which measure attainment against a fixed standard rather than progress from a starting point, are unaffected.
Oxfordshire's own average sits ahead of England on every measure checked here. Our expert GCSE maths tutors help students across Oxford build a programme around their own school’s specification and tier, not a county average.
Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppOxfordshire's county-wide figures above are an average across a state-funded Key Stage 4 cohort of 7,068 pupils in the 2024/25 results, against an England-wide cohort of 625,647. That average blends schools inside Oxford's own boundary with schools in Banbury, Bicester, Witney and every other Oxfordshire town, so it says little about how any one Oxford school is actually performing. The table below sets out DfE's published Attainment 8 maths-element score — the average points a pupil scored specifically in maths towards their Attainment 8 total, out of a maximum of two GCSE-equivalent slots — for three of Oxford's own secondary schools, checked against DfE's Compare School and College Performance service.
| School / area (2024/25) | Attainment 8, maths element | Attainment 8, overall | Grade 5+ Eng&maths | KS4 pupils |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Cherwell School | 11.5 | 58.3 | 66.2% | 269 |
| Matthew Arnold School | 11.1 | 56.5 | 65.2% | 207 |
| Oxford Spires Academy | 9.3 | 46.3 | 49.8% | 215 |
| Oxfordshire (local authority average) | 9.3 | 46.4 | 48.4% | 7,068 |
| England (state-funded average) | 9.1 | 46.1 | 45.4% | 625,647 |
The Cherwell School, on Marston Ferry Road, recorded a maths-element score of 11.5 in the 2024/25 results — 2.2 points above the Oxfordshire average and 2.4 above England — and an overall Attainment 8 score of 58.3, 11.9 points above the county figure. Matthew Arnold School, on Oxford's western edge near Cumnor Hill, was close behind at 11.1 for maths and 56.5 overall. Both schools cleared grade 5 or above in combined English and maths GCSEs for around two-thirds of their pupils: 66.2% at Cherwell and 65.2% at Matthew Arnold, against an Oxfordshire county rate of 48.4% and an England rate of 45.4%.
Oxford Spires Academy, in East Oxford, sits much closer to the county and national picture: its maths-element score of 9.3 exactly matches the Oxfordshire average, and its overall Attainment 8 score of 46.3 is effectively level with the county's 46.4. Its grade 5+ combined rate of 49.8% is still ahead of both the Oxfordshire figure (48.4%) and the England figure (45.4%), even though its Attainment 8 scores track the average closely — a reminder that these are different measures answering different questions, and a school can lead on one while sitting level on another.
None of this ranks the schools for admissions purposes, and none of it should be read as a verdict on any individual pupil: a school averaging 11.5 still has students working below grade 4, and a school averaging 9.3 still has students reaching grade 9. What it does show is that “Oxford” as a single figure hides a real spread between named schools, and the spread does not always move the way a single headline number would suggest.
Oxford’s named schools vary widely on the maths element of Attainment 8 — from 9.3 at Oxford Spires Academy to 11.5 at The Cherwell School in the 2024/25 results. Our expert GCSE maths tutors help students across Oxford build every programme around their own school and exam board, not the county figure. Leading Tuition is rated 4.8 out of 5 on Trustpilot from 58 reviews, read on 22 August 2026.
Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppSearch "gcse maths tutors in oxford" and the results skew hard toward a different audience than the one searching. The Oxbridge Tutor Company's own Oxford maths-tutors page lists more than twenty tutors, and the profiles describe current or recent undergraduates at the University of Oxford or Cambridge whose stated specialism is university admissions testing — the MAT, STEP, PAT, ENGAA and interview coaching — with GCSE tuition mentioned only in passing. Oxford Tutors, a separate company, markets itself with a single tagline that runs "11+ 13+ GCSE A LEVEL IB OXBRIDGE ENTRANCE & MORE," treating a Year 11 GCSE student and a Year 13 applicant to Oxford University as the same undifferentiated audience.
Even the directory-style results carry the same drift. Tutor Hunt’s own "Oxford Maths Tutors" listing — a page built around proximity to "Oxford town centre" — includes, among its top results, a University of Oxford admissions tutor specialising in undergraduate maths entrance testing and interviews, listed with no distinction drawn from the GCSE-level tutors around them. That is a genuinely valuable specialism, but it answers a completely different question from the one behind this search: it has nothing to do with a Year 10 or Year 11 pupil working towards a GCSE maths grade at a Cherwell, Matthew Arnold or Oxford Spires-style school.
The confusion is understandable. Oxford the city and Oxford the university share a name, a postcode area and, in the tutoring market, a large pool of tutors who are themselves current Oxford undergraduates — which is exactly why so many local tutoring businesses build their whole identity around the university rather than the city's schools. This page, and Leading Tuition's GCSE maths tuition in Oxford, is squarely about the first group: Year 10 and 11 pupils at Oxford's own secondary schools, working through Foundation or Higher tier GCSE maths on the AQA, Edexcel or OCR specification, not university admissions testing. A family whose child is instead preparing a university application to Oxford or Cambridge in maths — a genuinely different stage — can find worked interview questions in our separate guide to Oxford maths interview questions.
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No. Every figure on this page so far, from Oxfordshire's 75% grade 4+ rate to The Cherwell School's 11.5 maths-element score, comes from DfE's state-funded schools data, which by definition excludes the independent sector. Oxford has a well-known independent-school cluster, and DfE's own Compare School and College Performance service confirms at least two of the best-known as independent schools in their own right: Magdalen College School, on Cowley Place, and Oxford High School GDST, on Belbroughton Road. Neither school's GCSE results appear anywhere in the Oxfordshire or England figures used throughout this page.
Confirming a school is even still open matters here as much as confirming its type. Carfax College, an independent sixth-form and GCSE college on Hythe Bridge Street in central Oxford, closed on 10 October 2025, according to DfE's own register — worth checking before relying on any older page or directory listing that still describes it as operating. A parent comparing colleges by name should verify current status directly rather than trusting a listing's publish date.
For students at Oxford's independent schools, results can sit closer to Cherwell or Spires than to a national average either way: independent schools set their own entry policy by tier and specification, and some enter students for IGCSE rather than GCSE in certain subjects. Leading Tuition works with GCSE maths students from both state-funded and independent Oxford schools, and every programme is built around a student's own school, tier and exam board rather than assumed from any single average.
The gap between Oxfordshire's grade 4+ rate (75%) and its grade 5+ rate (57%) in the 2024/25 results is 18 percentage points of the whole Oxfordshire cohort. Measured the other way — as a share of the pupils who cleared grade 4, rather than of everyone who sat the exam — that same 18-point gap is closer to one Oxfordshire pupil in four: a meaningful share of those who reached grade 4 in maths did not go on to reach grade 5. That band is exactly where the choice of exam tier matters most: Foundation tier caps a candidate's ceiling at grade 5, while Higher tier opens grades 4 to 9 but carries a real risk of a U grade — below even the Foundation floor — if a student is entered too high relative to their actual working level.
Our diagnostic assessment for every new Oxford GCSE maths student starts by checking which tier their own school has entered them for, or is likely to enter them for, rather than working from a generic scheme of work. Given how far Oxfordshire's own average sits above England's on every measure checked for this page, the more useful comparison for most Oxford families is not the county figure but the school table above: a student at a school scoring close to the Oxfordshire average may need different support from one at a school already well ahead of it, even where both are working towards the same target grade.
Our tutors hold degrees from leading UK universities and build every programme around a student's own school, specification, tier and exam board — AQA, Edexcel or OCR — working one-to-one online through past-paper questions marked against the real mark scheme rather than a generic syllabus.
State-funded and independent Oxford schools sit on different specifications and timetables. Our expert GCSE maths tutors help students across Oxford at both state-funded and independent schools, building each programme around a student’s own tier and exam board.
Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppAll figures above are drawn from the Department for Education’s Key Stage 4 performance, 2024/25 release and its Compare School and College Performance service, both checked on 28th August 2026. For students weighing what comes after their GCSE results, our Oxford 16+ tuition guide covers sixth-form and college entry requirements built around the grade thresholds above, and families with a younger child can see our Oxford 13+ tuition guide for independent-school entry preparation. See our full GCSE Maths guide for how grade boundaries, tiers and topics work nationally, our maths tutoring service page for how programmes are structured, and our overview of tutoring across Oxford for our wider service in the city.
Because Oxford is not a local education authority. Oxfordshire County Council runs education for the whole county, including Banbury, Bicester, Didcot and Witney as well as Oxford itself, and every DfE figure at local-authority level is filed under Oxfordshire rather than any single town within it. Oxfordshire County Council states on its own website that it is “the local authority for Oxfordshire,” covering 367 schools and colleges across the county. To see how Oxford's own schools compare, this page uses named-school data from DfE's Compare School and College Performance service rather than the county average alone.
75% of pupils at Oxfordshire's state-funded schools achieved grade 4 or above in GCSE Mathematics in the 2024/25 results, according to DfE's Key Stage 4 performance data, three percentage points above England's 72% the same year. At grade 5 or above, the more demanding “strong pass” threshold, Oxfordshire's rate was 57%, four points above England's 53%. Both figures cover state-funded schools only and exclude Oxford's independent sector entirely.
The Cherwell School recorded the highest Attainment 8 maths-element score of the Oxford schools checked for this page, at 11.5 in the 2024/25 results — 2.2 points above the Oxfordshire average of 9.3. Its rate of pupils achieving grade 5 or above in combined English and maths GCSEs was 66.2%, against an Oxfordshire average of 48.4% and an England average of 45.4%. Matthew Arnold School was close behind at 11.1 for the maths element and 65.2% at grade 5 or above.
No. DfE's Compare School and College Performance service registers both Magdalen College School, on Cowley Place, and Oxford High School GDST, on Belbroughton Road, as independent schools, and its local-authority data covers state-funded schools only. Neither school's results are included anywhere in the Oxfordshire or England figures used throughout this page, including the 75% grade 4+ rate and the named-school comparison table.
The Department for Education states directly that progress measures will not be published for the 2024/25 or 2025/26 academic years, because the pupils sitting GCSEs in those years had no Key Stage 2 assessment data after primary tests were cancelled in 2019/20 and 2020/21 due to COVID-19. No city, county or individual school anywhere in England can report a current Progress 8 score for either year, so none is shown on this page.
No, and several search results for this exact term conflate the two. GCSE maths tuition prepares Year 10 and 11 pupils for their Foundation or Higher tier exam on the AQA, Edexcel or OCR specification. Oxbridge admissions preparation — the TMUA, STEP, ESAT or an Oxford or Cambridge interview — is aimed at students applying to university, a different stage entirely. Leading Tuition's Oxford GCSE maths tutors focus on the first group; families further along can see our separate guide to Oxford maths interview questions.
No. DfE's own register confirms Carfax College, an independent sixth-form and GCSE college on Hythe Bridge Street in central Oxford, closed on 10 October 2025. Any listing or search result that still describes it as an operating college is out of date. Families researching Oxford's independent colleges should verify current status directly with DfE's register rather than relying on an older directory entry.
Yes. Leading Tuition works with GCSE maths students across Oxford's state-funded secondary schools named on this page — including The Cherwell School, Matthew Arnold School and Oxford Spires Academy — and its independent schools, such as Magdalen College School and Oxford High School GDST, whose results are published separately from the local-authority data above. Every programme is built around a student's own school, specification, tier and exam board.
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