GCSE English Tutor Sutton: 2026 Grades, School by School

Leading Tuition's GCSE English tutors in Sutton are expert one-to-one online teachers who start from each pupil's own school and the weaker of the two English GCSEs, because DfE's provisional summer 2026 figures put grade 4 or above in English Language between 64% at Oaks Park High School and 100% at Wilson's School, and in English Literature between 59% and 100%.

Sutton means the London borough, DfE's local authority 319. Sixteen Sutton schools have 30 or more GCSE (9-1) entries in each subject, and together they made 3,430 English Language entries and 3,394 English Literature entries.

What did each Sutton school score in English Language and English Literature in summer 2026?

English Language and English Literature are two separate GCSEs with separate grades, and DfE reports them separately, so the two tables below are never added together. Each row gives the school's pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 beside its entries, because an entry count is not a headcount: a school's pupils may take a qualification that DfE's GCSE full-course table does not carry. Grade 4+ counts entries at grades 4 to 9, and grade 7+ counts entries at grades 7 to 9.

English Language, summer 2026 (provisional), GCSE (9-1) full course

Across the 16 schools, 2888 of 3430 English Language entries were at grade 4 or above, which is 84.2%, and 1476 were at grade 7 or above, which is 43.0%. The share at grade 4 or above runs from 64% at Oaks Park High School, from 233 entries, to 100% at Nonsuch High School for Girls, Sutton Grammar School, Wallington High School for Girls and Wilson's School.

English Literature, summer 2026 (provisional), GCSE (9-1) full course

Across the same 16 schools, 2905 of 3394 English Literature entries were at grade 4 or above, which is 85.6%, and 1424 were at grade 7 or above, which is 42.0%. The share at grade 4 or above runs from 59% at Oaks Park High School, from 210 entries, to 100% at Nonsuch High School for Girls, Sutton High School GDST and Wallington High School for Girls. Wilson's School is at 99% in Literature, from 193 entries.

Entries and pupils differ at some schools. Oaks Park High School has 238 pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 against 233 English Language entries and 210 English Literature entries, and Carshalton High School for Girls has 241 pupils against 234 and 228. The tables give DfE's counts as published and draw no conclusion from a gap between the two.

Where do English Language and English Literature differ inside the same Sutton school?

A pupil sits two English GCSEs, and at several Sutton schools the two shares are not close. At The John Fisher School, grade 4 or above is 72% (135 of 187) in English Language and 82% (153 of 186) in English Literature, a gap of 10 percentage points. At Oaks Park High School it runs the other way, with 64% (149 of 233) in Language and 59% (123 of 210) in Literature. Overton Grange School has 68% in Language and 73% in Literature, and Greenshaw High School 82% and 87%.

Glenthorne High School shows 90% in both subjects, from 284 entries in each, and Harris Academy Sutton shows 81% in both, from 210. At grade 7 or above the picture changes again: Wallington High School for Girls has 87% in Language and 78% in Literature, Sutton Grammar School 86% and 75%, and Wilson's School 96% and 88%.

Each cell in the table is a share of that school's entries in that one subject. The figures are counts and shares as DfE publishes them; the table makes no claim about why a school's two subjects differ. A tutor uses it differently: a pupil's own school gives a starting point, and the pupil's latest mock paper in each subject decides which GCSE the first sessions work on.

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What do the grade 7 and grade 9 counts show where grade 4 or above is near 100%?

Where nearly every entry reaches grade 4, the pass line stops telling schools apart, and the grade 9 counts do. Nonsuch High School for Girls recorded 74 grade 9 entries in English Language and 84 in English Literature, each from 204 entries. Wilson's School recorded 73 in Language and 57 in Literature, from 193 entries in each. Wallington High School for Girls recorded 60 and 41, from 208, and Sutton Grammar School 40 and 31, from 134.

Further down the table the counts are small. Glenthorne High School recorded 33 grade 9 entries in English Language and 43 in English Literature, from 284 entries each. Oaks Park High School recorded 1 in Language and 3 in Literature, and Overton Grange School 2 and 6. The John Fisher School recorded 3 in English Language and 0 in English Literature, from 186 Literature entries; DfE's rows for that school add up to its total, so the 0 is a recorded count and not a gap in the data.

Across the 16 schools, DfE's counts give 386 grade 9 entries in English Language and 368 in English Literature. Where the target is grade 7 or higher, the 7+ and 9 columns are the more useful comparison than the 4+ column: at Nonsuch High School for Girls the Language 7+ share is 93%, against 12% at Oaks Park High School.

Why can a Sutton school range mislead, and what does GIAS say about admissions?

The Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register lists five of the 16 schools as selective: Nonsuch High School for Girls, Sutton Grammar School, Wallington County Grammar School, Wallington High School for Girls and Wilson's School. Their grade 4 or above shares are 99% or 100% in both subjects. GIAS lists ten of the 16 as non-selective: Carshalton Boys Sports College, Carshalton High School for Girls, Cheam High School, Glenthorne High School, Greenshaw High School, Harris Academy Sutton, Oaks Park High School, Overton Grange School, St Philomena's Catholic High School for Girls and The John Fisher School.

Among those ten, English Language grade 4 or above runs from 64% at Oaks Park High School to 90% at Glenthorne High School, and English Literature from 59% at Oaks Park High School to 90% at Glenthorne High School. The combined figure for the 16 schools, 84.2% in Language and 85.6% in Literature, sits inside the range of the ten and below all five of the others, so it describes neither group. A family reads the row for the child's own school, and the group that school belongs to.

What does one-to-one online English tuition cover for a Sutton pupil?

Sessions are one-to-one online with a shared whiteboard, so a pupil at any Sutton school can work with a tutor from home. A programme begins with a short diagnostic in each of English Language and English Literature against the pupil's own school and exam board, because the two GCSEs have separate papers and separate grades. The tutor then builds the plan around whichever of the two is weaker for that pupil, working through that pupil's own past papers and marking them against the real mark scheme.

Session notes go to parents after each lesson, and progress is reviewed against the pupil's own target grade at agreed intervals. Our GCSE English Language tuition and GCSE English Literature tuition pages set out each course, and the GCSE English hub covers both together. 91% of Leading Tuition students achieve their desired grades.

How should a Sutton family read these figures?

DfE labels the release provisional. Its key stage 4 performance release was published on 15 October 2026 and last updated on 28 October 2026, and the dataset behind the tables, Subject school level exam data version 2.0, covers the 2025/26 academic year. Any approved result amendments that schools requested have not been applied.

No Progress 8 exists for these pupils: DfE states that it is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for 2024/25 or 2025/26. Nothing in the tables measures how much a school added to a pupil's grade, and a school's English figures say nothing about its other subjects.

DfE's GCSE full-course table lists 20 Sutton schools for English Language and 16 for English Literature. Four of the 20 have between 2 and 7 English Language entries (Brookways School 7, Wandle Valley Academy 5, Grove Road School 4 and Greenholm School 2), and they sit below our cut of 30 entries, so they are not read here. Entries are not pupils, so those counts say nothing about the schools themselves.

For the wider Sutton picture see tutoring in Sutton, and for the same data on a different subject see GCSE maths tutors in Sutton. DfE publishes the source data on Explore education statistics.

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