Maths Tutors in Bristol
Four councils, one travel-to-school area - in Bristol, the school your child attends is often not run by the authority you pay council tax to.
Trial lessons are 50% off the normal rate.
Bristol students sit GCSE Maths and A Level Maths, with AQA, Edexcel and OCR in use, and some schools near the Severn using WJEC Eduqas. The functional Bristol area spans four unitary authorities - Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset, and Bath and North East Somerset - so cross-border admissions are routine and neighbouring families can be in schools run by different councils. Bristol also has a large independent sector, some of whose schools enter students for IGCSE rather than GCSE. Math Wizard teaches across the Bristol area in person and online.
Four Authorities, One School Run
Bristol's boundary bears little relation to where people actually live and go to school. Families in the north of the city look to South Gloucestershire, families in the south west to North Somerset, and the admissions rules, transport arrangements and school calendars differ accordingly.
For tutoring the consequence is simple and worth stating: do not assume the neighbours' child is on the same specification. Check the board on a past paper before buying anything.
GCSE or IGCSE?
Several independent schools in and around Bristol enter students for IGCSE rather than GCSE. The mathematics overlaps almost entirely, but the papers are structured differently and the grading conventions are not identical.
A student revising from the wrong set of papers loses marks on format rather than on maths, which is the most annoying way to lose them. It takes one look at a report to establish which it is.
What Bristol Students Are Actually Sitting
GCSE Maths
How this course is assessed →A Level Maths
How this course is assessed →Further Maths
How this course is assessed →Not certain whether it is GCSE or IGCSE?
Send the school name and we will confirm it before any lesson is booked, so the practice papers are the right ones from the start. The trial lesson is half price.
Trial lessons are 50% off the normal rate.
Around Bristol and the Surrounding Authorities
In person. A tutor comes to the student's own desk across Bristol and into South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and BANES. Everything is worked on iPad and sent through afterwards.
Online, same price. Zoom or Google Meet with shared digital notes - the practical choice if you are out towards Portishead or Thornbury and want a particular tutor rather than the nearest one.
Flexible by design. One-hour sessions, movable with 12 hours notice, no contract and no minimum block.
Who teaches your lessons
A maths specialist – someone who teaches maths and no other subject, works from the same worksheets you can read on this site, and follows the same method with every student.
You are told exactly who your tutor is before the first lesson, never after. That lesson is half price, with no contract, so if the match is not right you have lost one half-price hour and nothing else.
Fees in Bristol
The rate does not change with which of the four authorities you happen to live in, or between in person and online.
The full breakdown, including how group lessons are made up and what the half-price first lesson covers, is on the maths tutor prices page.
| 1-to-1, in person or online | £60–£80 per hour |
| Small group (5–6 students) | £40 per student per hour |
| Trial lesson | 50% off the normal rate |
The rate depends on level – A Level and Advanced Higher sit at the upper end. There is no registration fee, no minimum package, and no charge for the worksheets or materials.
Most UK tutoring agencies quote you privately. Ours are above.
Maths Tutoring in Bristol – Common Questions
See all seventeen areas we cover, or read how online lessons work if in person is awkward from where you are.