GCSE English Tutor Wimbledon: 2026 Grades, School by School

Leading Tuition provides one-to-one online GCSE English tuition for Wimbledon pupils, in English Language and English Literature taught as the two separate GCSEs that DfE counts. In DfE's provisional summer 2026 tables, 1,147 of 1,372 English Language entries and 1,158 of 1,355 English Literature entries at the eight SW19 and SW20 schools with a row reached grade 4 or above.

Wimbledon sits inside the London Borough of Merton, DfE's local authority 315, so every figure below is cut from the Merton table by school postcode.

Which Wimbledon schools are in DfE's English tables?

DfE publishes GCSE results school by school and not by town, and Wimbledon is not a local authority in its own right. This page counts a school as Wimbledon's when its address on the Get Information about Schools register (GIAS) carries an SW19 or SW20 postcode and the school appears in DfE's 2025/26 file. Nine schools in the Merton part of that file meet the rule. In DfE's GCSE (9-1) full-course tables, the Merton file lists 15 schools with an English Language row and 14 with an English Literature row, and eight of each are the SW19 and SW20 schools below.

The eight schools with rows had 1,374 pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 in 2025/26, and King's College School had 158, so the nine together had 1,532. GIAS lists King's College School and Wimbledon High School GDST as selective. Hall School Wimbledon appears with 29 entries beside a cohort of 30, and a school's entry count is a count of entries in this qualification, not of pupils, so no row here says anything about how a school teaches English.

Seven more Merton schools sit in the same file outside the SW19 and SW20 line, for example Harris Academy Merton with 222 English Language entries and Harris Academy Morden with 165, and none of them is read here. In DfE's file RISE Education (1 entry in each subject) and, for English Literature, Jus'T'Learn (4 entries) carry an entry total with no grade breakdown, so no grades are given for them.

How did Wimbledon schools do in GCSE English Language in summer 2026?

The table is DfE's provisional GCSE (9-1) full-course English Language count for 2025/26, with each school's cohort beside its entries. Grade 4 or above and grade 7 or above are sums of DfE's grade rows 4 to 9 and 7 to 9, shown as a share of the school's entries. Schools are listed alphabetically; nothing here ranks them.

The last row adds the eight schools' rows together, so it is a sum of those rows and not a Wimbledon-wide or Merton-wide figure: 1,372 entries, of which 1,147 (83.6%) reached grade 4 or above and 440 (32.1%) grade 7 or above.

Read school by school, Ricards Lodge High School had 235 entries against a cohort of 235, with 206 at grade 4 or above and 86 at grade 7 or above, including 12 at grade 9. Ursuline High School Wimbledon had 212 entries, 198 at grade 4 or above and 100 at grade 7 or above. At Raynes Park High School, 132 of 202 entries (65.3%) reached grade 4 or above and 34 (16.8%) reached grade 7 or above. Rutlish School recorded 229 entries, 186 at grade 4 or above and 47 at grade 7 or above; Wimbledon College recorded 195, 157 and 41; and Harris Academy Wimbledon recorded 167, 139 and 28.

How did Wimbledon schools do in GCSE English Literature in summer 2026?

English Literature is a different GCSE with its own entries, so it has its own table, built the same way from DfE's provisional 2025/26 full-course rows for English Literature.

Summed across the eight rows, English Literature has 1,355 entries, with 1,158 (85.5%) at grade 4 or above and 422 (31.1%) at grade 7 or above. Again this is a sum of eight schools' rows and not an area figure.

At Ricards Lodge High School, 207 of 233 English Literature entries reached grade 4 or above and 83 reached grade 7 or above, including 21 at grade 9. Ursuline High School Wimbledon had 207 entries, with 197 at grade 4 or above and 100 at grade 7 or above. Raynes Park High School recorded 195 English Literature entries against a cohort of 202, with 127 at grade 4 or above (65.1%). Rutlish School had 226 entries, 187 at grade 4 or above and 32 at grade 7 or above, and Wimbledon College had 195, 170 and 40.

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

The two tables share a cohort, so each school can be read across. The table below subtracts the English Language share from the English Literature share for the same school and the same grade threshold, in percentage points, and gives the counts behind each. It records the difference and nothing more.

At Rutlish School, 47 English Language entries and 32 English Literature entries reached grade 7 or above, a difference of 15 entries and 6.4 percentage points. At Wimbledon College, 157 English Language entries and 170 English Literature entries reached grade 4 or above, a difference of 13 entries and 6.7 points. At Ursuline High School Wimbledon the grade 7 counts are 100 and 100, and at Ricards Lodge High School they are 86 and 83.

Cohort and entries are also separate counts. Raynes Park High School had 202 pupils at the end of Key Stage 4, 202 English Language entries and 195 English Literature entries, so the three numbers differ by 7 at most. A tutor who knows which of the two GCSEs a pupil sits, and at which threshold the pupil is working, plans from that pupil's own papers; AQA GCSE English Language tuition and AQA GCSE English Literature tuition are described on their own pages.

How many Wimbledon pupils finish below grade 4 in English?

Grade 4 matters beyond Year 11. The Department for Education's 16 to 19 maths and English condition of funding says 16- to 19-year-olds on study programmes without GCSE maths and English grade 4 or above get support to improve those skills, and its page, last updated on 24 July 2026, says students with a GCSE grade 3 must study towards a GCSE, while students with a GCSE grade 2 or below may study towards either a GCSE or Functional Skills level 2.

The counts include grades 1 to 3 plus U and X, and are the entries left after grade 4 or above is taken from the total. Raynes Park High School has the largest counts, 70 in English Language and 68 in English Literature, against cohorts of 202. At Ursuline High School Wimbledon the counts are 14 and 10, and at Hall School Wimbledon 3 and 5, with 29 entries each.

Across the eight rows, 225 English Language entries and 197 English Literature entries finished below grade 4, a sum of counts and not a count of pupils. Our expert GCSE English tutors work from a pupil's latest mock paper, so a pupil near the grade 4 line and a pupil near grade 7 are taught different things.

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What do the grade 7 figures look like at the top of the table?

GIAS lists Wimbledon High School GDST as selective, and its 103 pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 all sit in both tables. All 103 English Language entries and all 103 English Literature entries reached grade 4 or above. At grade 7 or above the counts are 97 of 103 in English Language (94.2%) and 96 of 103 in English Literature (93.2%), and 37 and 47 entries reached grade 9.

Summed over all eight rows, 32.1% of English Language entries and 31.1% of English Literature entries reached grade 7 or above. Leave Wimbledon High School GDST out and the seven other rows sum to 1,269 English Language entries with 343 (27.0%) at grade 7 or above, and 1,252 English Literature entries with 326 (26.0%). The sum that includes a school GIAS lists as selective sits 5.0 and 5.1 points higher in the two subjects, which is why this page shows both.

Among the other rows, Ursuline High School Wimbledon has 47.2% of English Language entries and 48.3% of English Literature entries at grade 7 or above, from 212 and 207 entries, and Ricards Lodge High School 36.6% and 35.6%, from 235 and 233. Both are described by their own counts, and the table gives the cohort beside each.

How do the two AQA English GCSEs differ, and what does that mean for a one-to-one plan?

AQA's published specifications show how differently the two GCSEs are built. English Language (8700) has two written papers, each 1 hour 45 minutes, 80 marks and 50% of the GCSE: Paper 1, Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing, and Paper 2, Writers' Viewpoints and Perspectives. In each, reading carries 40 marks and writing 40 marks, and the writing question gives 24 marks for content and 16 for technical accuracy. A separate spoken language endorsement carries 0% of the GCSE.

AQA English Literature (8702) also totals 160 marks, but over two unequal papers. Paper 1, Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel, is 1 hour 45 minutes, 64 marks and 40% of the GCSE. Paper 2, Modern texts and poetry, is 2 hours 15 minutes, 96 marks and 60%, and includes the poetry anthology and unseen poetry. Added together, the Language papers last 3 hours 30 minutes and the Literature papers 4 hours.

This is AQA's structure only; other boards publish their own, and our tutors confirm the specification a pupil's school has entered them for before planning. For a pupil sitting AQA, one-to-one sessions give English Language timed practice on a single fiction extract and on two linked non-fiction texts, with the writing marked for content and for technical accuracy as the mark scheme splits them. For English Literature, sessions cover the Shakespeare play, the 19th-century novel, the modern text and the poetry a pupil has studied, with unseen poetry practised as its own skill. The GCSE English tuition page covers the wider offer, and our Wimbledon GCSE maths tutors and A-level English tutors cover the neighbouring subjects. The official specifications are on AQA's English Language page.

What does one-to-one online GCSE English tuition with Leading Tuition involve?

A family books a free consultation through the button on this page or by WhatsApp. The first step is a short diagnostic against the pupil's own school, exam board and latest English Language and English Literature mock papers. Sessions then run one-to-one online with a shared whiteboard, working through the pupil's own past papers and marking against the real mark scheme, with session notes shared with parents after each lesson.

Leading Tuition's expert GCSE English tutors teach pupils at any school in SW19 and SW20, including King's College School, whose pupils DfE counts but whose English results are not in the tables above, and the seven Merton schools outside the postcode line. The tables are context for a family and not a condition of tuition. 91% of Leading Tuition students achieve their desired grades.

What can these figures not tell a Wimbledon family?

The data are provisional: DfE states that the data in its release is provisional and based on the results data that awarding organisations supply. This page reads dataset version 2.0 of DfE's Subject school level exam data, published on 15 October 2026, for GCSE (9-1) full courses in 2025/26.

No Progress 8 exists for these pupils: DfE publishes no progress measures for 2024/25 or 2025/26 because the pupils had no Key Stage 2 assessments. Nothing here measures how much a school added to a pupil's grade, and the tables count grades, not teaching.

DfE counts pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 attributed to their school, so the figures will not match results-day headlines that count exam entries for 16-year-olds. Grade counts are entries and not pupils, which is why each table shows cohort beside entries: a pupil entered for a qualification DfE's full-course table does not carry does not appear in that row. The release is on DfE's Key Stage 4 performance page, and each school's register entry is on Get Information about Schools. For a wider view of local tuition, see tuition in Wimbledon.

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