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Maths Tutors in Leicester

Almost every Leicester student changes school at sixteen - a legacy of a reorganisation carried out in the 1970s and never undone.

Trial lessons are 50% off the normal rate.

Leicester students sit GCSE Maths and A Level Maths, with AQA, Edexcel and OCR in use. Leicester is unusual among English cities in that many of its secondary schools run to sixteen only, following a reorganisation of the city's schools in the 1970s, and post-sixteen teaching is concentrated in large sixth form colleges - Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I, Gateway and Regent among them. Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I alone teaches in the region of 3,750 students. Math Wizard teaches across Leicester and Leicestershire in person and online.

A Transition Built Into the System

In most English cities, moving institution at sixteen is a choice. In Leicester it is close to universal, and the destination is a college several times the size of the school just left.

That is not a criticism of the colleges, which are large because they are doing the job the city asked them to do. It is a statement about individual attention: a maths department with thousands of students cannot notice quietly on your behalf that one particular student stopped understanding functions in October.

What To Do in the Summer Before Year 12

The most useful six weeks of A Level maths preparation happen before the course starts. Not new content - fluency. Surds, indices, rearranging, factorising, straight-line geometry, done until they are automatic rather than merely possible.

A student who arrives in September with those secure has a very different year from one who arrives able to do them slowly and carefully. This is the single most common piece of advice given to Leicester families, and the cheapest.

What Leicester Students Are Actually Sitting

About to start at a Leicester sixth form college?

A few sessions before September are worth far more than a rescue in January. Tell us the college and the intended subjects - the first lesson is half price.

Trial lessons are 50% off the normal rate.

Lessons in Leicester and Across the County

In person. A tutor comes to the student's own desk in the city and out into Leicestershire. Everything is worked on iPad and sent through after the session.

Online, same price. Zoom or Google Meet with shared notes. Useful for county students whose evenings are already shaped by a long bus journey home.

Rearrangeable. Hour sessions, movable with 12 hours notice, no contract and no minimum commitment.

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 Leicester

One rate for the city and the county alike, and the same 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 Leicester – Common Questions

Because many city secondaries were reorganised to run to sixteen only, with A Level teaching concentrated in sixth form colleges. It is a structural feature of the city rather than a school-by-school choice.
Yes, both, along with Further Maths at A Level. GCSE work in Leicester is often aimed at securing a grade that keeps A Level open.
Yes, in person across Leicestershire subject to tutor availability, and online anywhere at the same rate.
No, but the work changes from prevention to repair. The sooner after a poor assessment it starts, the less content there is to go back over.

See all seventeen areas we cover, or read how online lessons work if in person is awkward from where you are.