Home Education
Homeschool GCSE Cost in the UK
Exam fees, online-school fees, and one-to-one tutoring are three different bills. Nexus Academy is the last of those: from £14/hr, free demo, no lock-in.
From £14/hr · Exam fees paid to the centre · No lock-in
Quick answer
Nexus Academy offers one-to-one online GCSE and IGCSE tutoring for home-educated students from £14 per hour, with a free demo lesson and no lock-in. That is the tuition line only. Exam-centre entry fees are paid to the centre and often run to hundreds of pounds per subject. Full online schools typically charge thousands of pounds a year. Start with a free demo if you need a specialist in 1–3 exam subjects.
Nexus Academy does not sell a “homeschool package”. Home education itself has no statutory tuition fee. The money parents actually spend sits in three buckets: exam-centre entries, an optional online school, and specialist tutoring for the subjects that are falling behind. Mixing those numbers is how comparison pages become useless.
If you need a full timetable and pastoral wraparound, an online school may be the right buy — typically thousands of pounds a year. If you need exam-board teaching in Maths, English or a science, one-to-one from £14/hr is the cheaper, tighter tool. See academic tutoring prices and GCSE tutor cost in the UK.
Three Separate Bills
What homeschool GCSE actually costs
Nexus Academy is the tutoring line only. Exam fees are paid to the centre. Online-school fees are a different product.
| Cost line | What it covers | Typical UK range |
|---|---|---|
| Legal / local-authority process | Deregistration and home-education correspondence | Usually no statutory fee; time cost only |
| Exam-centre entry | Board entry plus the centre’s private-candidate charge | Often hundreds of pounds per subject; a full suite can exceed £1,000 — paid to the centre |
| Full online school | Timetabled lessons across many subjects | Typically £3,000–£11,000 per year, plus exam fees |
| Nexus Academy 1-to-1 | Exam-board tutoring in the subjects that need a specialist | From £14/hr, free demo, no lock-in; exam fees still paid to the centre |
Worked Examples
Tutoring hours × from £14/hr
These figures are tuition only. They are not a quote and they exclude exam-centre fees. Hours are agreed after a free demo.
| Starting pattern | Hourly rate | Academic-year tuition |
|---|---|---|
| 1 subject · 1 hr/week · 36 weeks | £14 | £504 tutoring (exam fees extra) |
| 2 subjects · 1 hr/week · 36 weeks | £14 | £1,008 tutoring (exam fees extra) |
| 1 subject · 1.5 hrs/week · 36 weeks | £14 | £756 tutoring (exam fees extra) |
A late starter or a November resit block may need more hours in fewer weeks. A student already covering the specification may need fewer. There is no minimum package and no lock-in. Exam-centre process sits on a different invoice.
Is an online school cheaper than a tutor?
An online school is cheaper only if you treat it as a replacement for a full timetable. Published UK online-school fees for 2026/27 commonly sit in the low thousands to around £11,000 a year depending on year group and live teaching. That still leaves exam-centre fees on top.
Nexus Academy is cheaper when the gap is 1–3 exam subjects, not a school. You pay for the hours you use, from £14/hr, after a free demo. We do not replace an online school, and we do not enter the candidate. Follow how to homeschool GCSE if you are still mapping the legal and centre steps.
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The free demo is the costing meeting. We confirm the board, the exam series, and a realistic weekly pattern. No payment on the demo. From £14/hr if you continue — GCSE and IGCSE — with no lock-in.
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Homeschool GCSE cost — questions parents ask
Nexus Academy charges from £14 per hour for one-to-one online GCSE or IGCSE tutoring — that is tuition, not the full cost of home education. Exam-centre entry fees are separate and paid to the centre. Full online schools typically charge thousands of pounds a year for a timetable of subjects. A free demo lesson maps how many hours you actually need. There is no lock-in.
Nexus Academy does not collect exam fees and does not publish a centre’s price list, because each approved centre sets its own charges on top of the exam board’s entry fee. Families should budget hundreds of pounds per subject, and often more than £1,000 for a full GCSE or IGCSE suite, then confirm the live figure with the centre. JCQ lists centres; we tutor the named board from £14/hr after a free demo.
Nexus Academy is usually cheaper than a full online school when you only need specialist teaching in 1–3 exam subjects, because you pay from £14 per hour instead of a yearly timetable fee of several thousand pounds. An online school can still be the right buy if you want a complete curriculum and pastoral wraparound. Exam fees are extra on both routes. Book a free demo if the gap is exam-board teaching, not a full school.
Nexus Academy agrees hours after a free demo, because the honest number depends on current grade, target, and months until the exam series. A common starting pattern is one hour a week per priority subject through the academic year — at from £14/hr that is a few hundred pounds per subject, not a school fee. You can increase before mocks or stop at any time. We do not sell lock-in packages.
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