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Maths Tutors in Liverpool

A comprehensive city with one selective state school of its own, and a fully selective borough on the far side of the Mersey.

Trial lessons are 50% off the normal rate.

Liverpool students sit GCSE Maths and A Level Maths under the English system, with AQA, Edexcel and OCR in use. Liverpool itself is largely comprehensive, with the notable exception of the Blue Coat School, a state school that selects by examination - unusual for the North West. Across the river, Wirral is a selective authority whose grammar schools run their own admissions testing, so some Liverpool city region families prepare for entrance tests even though their own borough has almost none. Math Wizard teaches across the Liverpool City Region in person and online.

The River is a Real Boundary

The Mersey is not a line on a map, it is a tunnel or a ferry. That matters for anything selective: Wirral runs grammar schools with their own entrance assessments, and a family in south Liverpool considering them is committing to a daily crossing for seven years as well as a test in Year 6.

It also matters for tutoring logistics. An in-person tutor based on the wrong side of the water is an unreliable arrangement in winter, and this is one of the clearest cases anywhere in the country for simply doing the lessons online instead.

A City Region, Not Just a City

Liverpool's secondary intake reaches well beyond the city boundary into Knowsley, Sefton, Halton and Wirral. Families choose across those lines routinely, which means a single street can send children to schools run by four different authorities on three different exam boards.

The practical advice is unglamorous: find out which board your child is entered for before buying any revision guide. Half the wasted money in GCSE maths preparation is spent on materials for the wrong specification.

What Liverpool Students Are Actually Sitting

Which side of the river, and which board?

Those two answers shape everything else. Send them over with the year group and we will tell you what the sensible next step is - the trial lesson is half price.

Trial lessons are 50% off the normal rate.

In Person or Online Around Merseyside

In person. A tutor comes to the student's desk across Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley and Halton. Work is done on iPad and sent afterwards, so nothing rests on a tired student copying it down correctly.

Online, same price. Genuinely the better option for anything that would involve a tunnel crossing at rush hour. Zoom or Google Meet, shared notes, identical rate to in person.

Nothing locked in. Hour-long sessions, times movable with 12 hours notice, no contract and no minimum number of lessons.

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 Liverpool

One rate across the Liverpool City Region, and the same figure online - crossing the river does not cost extra.

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 Liverpool – Common Questions

For the maths component, yes. It is a selective test rather than a curriculum exam, so preparation focuses on speed and problem types rather than covering ground the school will teach later.
Wirral schools run their own admissions assessments and not all use the same one. Tell us which schools your child is entered for and preparation is built around those papers.
Yes - in-person teaching covers the wider city region, and online is available anywhere at the same price if a particular time slot is hard to fill in person.
For a student who is behind rather than polishing, the autumn of Year 11 is late but workable. Starting in Year 10 means fixing the algebra properly rather than working around it.

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