A Level English Tutors Wimbledon 2026

Compare school and college performance lists A-level English Language entries at two of the ten providers inside SW19 and SW20 in 2024/25, and both providers' course guides put the teaching at one school, Ursuline High School Wimbledon (DfE URN 102683, closed 31 January 2025; open as URN 151350). Wimbledon College (proposed to close 30 November 2026) holds the other five entries, in a row DfE suppresses.

English Literature is entered at eight sixth forms, 141 exam entries with RR6 counted once. DfE's value-added score clears zero in two of the nine published rows, or one of seven if RR6 is read as a single sixth form.

Where can a Wimbledon student take A-level English Language, and why do five entries sit in a suppressed row?

Compare lists A-level English entries by course for each of the ten providers. RR6's entries include Rutlish School's and Ricards Lodge High School's, so RR6 is counted once across the eight sixth forms.

Source: Compare school and college performance, subjects entered at 16 to 18, 2024/25, GCE A level, retrieved 17 October 2026; the same counts are in the DfE subject entries and grades data set. "none listed" means the school's Compare page shows no such A-level row, which includes Rutlish School and Ricards Lodge High School for English Language.

Each school's own document says where English Language is taught. The joint course guide of Ursuline High School Wimbledon (URN 102683, now 151350) and Wimbledon College (proposed to close 30 November 2026) for September 2026 lists it as "Taught at Ursuline Sixth Form", with the board Pearson Edexcel. Wimbledon College's own guide for 2027 lists English Literature among its courses but puts English Language under "Taught at Ursuline High School", also Pearson Edexcel, and names it, with French and Drama and Theatre Studies, among the courses distinct to the Ursuline High School.

DfE's technical guidance for 16 to 19 accountability measures says that all of a student's results are attributed to a single college, including any results studied elsewhere, which "may mean qualifications not offered by the allocated college are reported against them". The edition on the DfE website is for the 2025 to 2026 year; we did not find the one covering the 2024/25 results used here.

The two sources are consistent with each other: a course taught at Ursuline (URN 102683, now 151350) can appear against Wimbledon College (proposed to close 30 November 2026) in DfE's data. Neither says where the five students behind Wimbledon College's 2024/25 English Language entries were taught, and both guides describe the 2026 and 2027 entry years, not that cohort.

DfE's rows follow the attribution. Ursuline's English Language row (URN 102683, now 151350) has 17 matched entries and a score of 0.24, with a 95% interval of -0.17 to 0.64, which spans zero. Wimbledon College's row (proposed to close 30 November 2026) shows c, DfE's symbol for a suppressed figure, in all four value-added columns, so no score is published for its five entries, and their grade counts are suppressed too. Ursuline's 17 entries gave 10 grades of A* to B (58.8%) against 45.5% for England (5,533 of 12,160); for 17 entries that describes a group and is not a finding.

The practical question for a family is which site teaches the course and what it asks. Ursuline's (URN 102683, now 151350) entry criteria for 2027 entry ask for "Grade 6-9 in English Language OR English Literature" for English Language. Wimbledon College's (proposed to close 30 November 2026) entry requirements for 2027-28 list English Language (UHS) with "Grade 6 in English Lang or LIt", and say that for a course at Ursuline a student must meet the higher of the two schools' entry criteria.

How many students sit A-level English Literature in Wimbledon, and which rows are the same students?

DfE's value-added file for Merton holds twelve A-level English Literature rows for 2024/25. Nine are published and three are suppressed: Hall School Wimbledon, Harris Academy Merton and St Mark's Church of England Academy. The nine published rows sum to 170 matched entries, but that total counts some students twice: RR6's row of 32 matched entries equals Rutlish School's 6 plus Ricards Lodge High School's 26. Counting RR6 once gives 138 matched entries across seven sixth forms: Ursuline High School Wimbledon (URN 102683, now 151350) 34, RR6 32, King's College School 31, Wimbledon High School GDST 14, Harris Academy Wimbledon 10, Wimbledon College (proposed to close 30 November 2026) 9 and Raynes Park High School 8. Removing RR6's two members instead of RR6 gives the same 138, because 32 is 6 plus 26.

Matched entries are the ones DfE can link to a student's GCSE results, so they can run below the exam entries that Compare counts. Compare lists 141 English Literature exam entries for the same eight sixth forms. The extra three are one each at Wimbledon High School GDST, Raynes Park High School and Hall School Wimbledon, whose value-added row is suppressed. The two figures measure different things, and this page labels each.

What the Get Information about Schools register shows about RR6 is short. It records RR6 (URN 136509) as a sixth form centre for ages 16 to 19, registered care of Ricards Lodge High School, SW19 7HB, with two links: Rutlish School and Ricards Lodge High School, each typed "Sixth Form Centre School" and dated 22 March 2011. On the two schools' own register entries RR6 appears as a "Sixth Form Centre Link" with the same date. None of the other nine establishments in the Merton file links to RR6. The link is a registration relationship, and the register does not say who teaches what.

The published figures close to the unit on three English Literature measures, and the fourth is a count of all A level students.

Source: Department for Education, qualification and subject value added; subject entries and grades; A level maths and science (all 2024/25); Compare school and college performance, subjects entered at 16 to 18. A-level English Literature except the last row, which counts all A level students.

Grade by grade the three rows close as well.

Source: Department for Education, subject entries and grades, A level cohort, English Literature, GCE A level, 2024/25.

Because every measure closes exactly, no member of RR6's row is a suppressed row that has dropped out of the arithmetic: a suppressed member would leave a shortfall. The student count is for all subjects, because the maths and science file holds no English column, so it shows that the two schools' A level cohorts add to RR6's, not that their English students do. The relationship is arithmetic between published rows.

The value-added scores follow the same arithmetic. DfE's technical guidance says a school or college's score for a qualification is the average of its students' scores, so weighting Rutlish School's 0.35 and Ricards Lodge High School's -0.45 by their 6 and 26 matched entries gives -0.3, the -0.3 DfE publishes for RR6. That is a check on a published score. It does not turn other combinations of rows into scores DfE has not published.

Which Wimbledon English Literature scores are clear of zero?

A value-added score is only a finding where its 95% confidence interval lies wholly on one side of zero, and how many rows pass depends on the unit counted. By row, two of the nine published rows clear zero: Ursuline High School Wimbledon (URN 102683, now 151350) above, and Ricards Lodge High School below. With RR6 read as one row in place of Rutlish School and Ricards Lodge High School, one of the seven clears zero, Ursuline, because RR6's own interval, -0.63 to 0.02, includes zero. The counts differ because Ricards Lodge High School's 26 matched entries are 26 of the 32 in RR6's row (81.3%), so the below-zero row and the RR6 row describe overlapping entries and are not two separate findings. This page shows both counts and does not choose between them. Ursuline's interval starts at 0.01, so it clears zero by one hundredth of a grade at the precision DfE publishes.

Source: Department for Education, qualification and subject value added, A level cohort, English Literature, 2024/25 (c means suppressed); grades from Schools and colleges - subject entries and grades, 2024/25. The England comparator for the same grades is 19,239 of 34,031 A-level English Literature entries (56.5%). Where exam entries differ from matched entries the share uses exam entries.

All of these are DfE's progress measure for 2024/25 entrants, not a measure of teaching quality. Intervals widen as cohorts shrink, from 0.63 across the 34 matched entries in the largest row to 1.49 across the 6 in the smallest.

Raw grades and value added answer different questions. England's A-level English Literature entries gave 19,239 grades of A* to B out of 34,031 (56.5%). King's College School's 31 exam entries gave 30 (96.8%), yet its value-added score is -0.01 with an interval of -0.34 to 0.32, which spans zero. Value added compares each student with others nationally who had the same GCSE results, so a high share of A* to B and a score near zero can sit together. In a row of 6 to 10 entries one grade moves the share by between 10 and 17 points.

Hall School Wimbledon shows c in all four value-added columns, and Compare lists one A-level English Literature entry for it. A single entry cannot support a score.

Which board, set texts and GCSE grade does each Wimbledon sixth form name for English Literature?

Six of the eight sixth forms name a board for English Literature in their own documents: four name OCR and two name Pearson Edexcel. Six publish a GCSE requirement for it. The table gives each school's own words, with set texts where the document names them.

Source: each school's own published document, named in the last column. We found no English Literature board or GCSE grade for King's College School or Hall School Wimbledon on the public pages we read. Sorted by Compare entries.

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The documents are for 2026 and 2027 entry, so they describe what a student joining now is asked, not what the 2024/25 students in the tables above were asked, and each school issues a new one every year. Ursuline High School Wimbledon (URN 102683, now 151350) and Wimbledon College (proposed to close 30 November 2026) publish one entry for English Literature: OCR, "Taught at Ursuline Sixth Form & Wimbledon College", one board across both sites. Our A-level Biology tutors in Wimbledon page describes how the same two schools list Biology twice, on two boards.

Ursuline's (URN 102683, now 151350) entry criteria say that a student who enrols at Ursuline and takes an A level at Wimbledon College (proposed to close 30 November 2026) must also meet Wimbledon College's minimum for the subject, and Wimbledon College's say that for a course at Ursuline a student must meet the higher of the two schools' criteria. For English Literature the wording differs: "Grade 6-9 in English Language OR English Literature" at Ursuline and "Grade 6 in Eng Lang and Lit" at Wimbledon College. The documents do not say which applies to a student on the shared Literature course, so a family should ask.

English Language, taught at Ursuline Sixth Form (Ursuline High School Wimbledon, URN 102683, now 151350), is Pearson Edexcel 9EN0 (Issue 6, August 2024). Its three papers are Language Variation, 35%, 2 hours 15 minutes; Child Language, 20%, 1 hour 15 minutes; and Investigating Language, 25%, 1 hour 45 minutes, on a sub-topic released on 1 December. The Crafting Language coursework is 20% and has an advisory 2500 to 3000 words: two pieces of original writing and a commentary. Its objectives AO1, AO2 and AO3 are weighted 24.4% each, AO4 15% and AO5 12%, with totals rounded.

The two boards in use examine the subject differently. These figures come from the boards' own specifications, not from the schools.

Source: OCR, A Level in English Literature H472, specification version 2.1 (July 2026); Pearson, Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in English Literature 9ET0, specification Issue 11 (August 2025), which notes that some of its figures are rounded. AO1 is the personal and creative response, AO2 analysis, AO3 context, AO4 connections across texts and AO5 different interpretations.

Which schools count as Wimbledon here?

Wimbledon is a town inside the London Borough of Merton (local authority 315), and DfE publishes results by local authority, so the Merton file has to be cut down. The rule used here is the postcode on the Get Information about Schools register: SW19 or SW20. Ten of the twelve Merton English Literature rows qualify. King's College School is SW19 4TT, RR6 and Ricards Lodge High School SW19 7HB, Wimbledon College (proposed to close 30 November 2026) SW19 4NS, Wimbledon High School GDST SW19 4AB, Harris Academy Wimbledon SW19 2JY, Rutlish School SW20 9AD, Raynes Park High School SW20 0JL, Ursuline High School Wimbledon (URN 102683, now 151350) SW20 8HA and Hall School Wimbledon SW20 8HF. SW20 takes in Raynes Park and Merton Park, so the rule includes schools whose own addresses use those names.

Harris Academy Merton (Wide Way, CR4 1BP) and St Mark's Church of England Academy (Acacia Road, CR4 1SF) are in Mitcham and are left out on address alone. Both rows are suppressed, so neither could change a count on this page. On the register the ten in-scope providers carry the Wimbledon parliamentary constituency and the two Mitcham schools Mitcham and Morden, so on this file the postcode and the constituency field agree.

We also matched every establishment on the register's all-establishment extract for 17 October 2026 with an SW19 or SW20 address, 71 counting closed ones, against the 2,891 school records in DfE's value-added file. Ten have a record, and they are these ten; none is in another local authority.

Two of the ten carry a changed register record. DfE's file holds Ursuline High School Wimbledon under URN 102683, which the register shows as closed on 31 January 2025 when the school became an academy; the open record is URN 151350, open from 1 February 2025. Wimbledon College's row belongs to URN 102681, which the register lists as open but proposed to close on 30 November 2026, also for academy conversion.

How do our tutors work with Wimbledon A-level English students?

Our expert A-level English tutors help students across Wimbledon start from three things this page has pinned down: the course the student sits, the board that sixth form names, and how that board weights what it marks. Where the sixth form names OCR, both exam components are closed text, so preparation is knowing the set texts closely enough to use them without the book, and context is the second-largest objective at 25%. Where it names Pearson Edexcel, clean copies are allowed in all three papers, so the work is on choosing evidence and using it within the time, and on a comparative coursework essay of 2500 to 3000 words.

Where the documents state the timing, the written papers come at the end of Year 13. RR6 says its final exams are taken at the end of Year 13, with mock exams in Years 12 and 13, and Raynes Park High School says coursework is completed by April and exams are in June. So a Year 12 student has school essays and mocks to measure progress against, not an external paper, until the summer of Year 13, and each programme builds timed-essay checkpoints and plans the coursework drafts early.

For English Language the course runs at Ursuline Sixth Form (URN 102683, now 151350) on Pearson Edexcel, so tutoring starts from the three papers and the Crafting Language folder, and from asking which site a student will attend. Our A-level English tuition page covers how we teach the subject at every level, the OCR and Pearson Edexcel English Literature pages cover the specifications, and the Wimbledon tuition hub lists the rest of what we offer locally.

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