Disclaimer

The rankings on this site are only worth something if you know exactly what they are — and who made them.

Who built this — and yes, he’s on the list

TutorRank was built and is operated by Volak S., a working math tutor. He also appears in these rankings, currently at or near the top of several of them. He chose the scoring rules — the weights, the floors, the formula — and those rules affect where he places. You should factor that in when you read the table, and we’d rather tell you than have you find out.

Every one of those rules is published in full on the methodology page. Reasonable people would choose different numbers and get a different order. What we can promise is that the rules are stated openly and applied identically to everyone — including the person who wrote them.

The testimonials are real, and you can check every one

Nothing here is written, paraphrased, or invented by us. Every scored data point comes from a testimonial published on a tutor’s own public Wyzant or Preply profile, by an actual student or parent. A testimonial only counts when it states a concrete before → after result — “went from a 72 to a 92,” “a C to an A.”

Each tutor’s page reproduces every testimonial verbatim, next to the grade change we read out of it and whether it scored or was excluded. So you never have to take our word for a ranking — click the tutor, read the actual reviews, and audit the arithmetic yourself.

Where these rankings are a bad guide

The score measures one narrow thing: documented grade improvements that students happened to write down with numbers. That makes it a weak or useless signal in several common cases.

Use this as one input: a way to surface tutors whose results were concrete enough that a student bothered to write the number down. It is not a measure of teaching quality, and it is not a substitute for talking to the tutor.

The rankings are nearly all Wyzant — and that’s our fault, not Preply’s

Nearly every ranked tutor here is from Wyzant. We now hold a balanced sample — 281 Wyzant tutors and 290 from Preply — so it is not that we lack Preply data. Two things about our method, neither a judgment about tutors, keep Preply off the board:

1. Our $60/hr floor excludes most of Preply. Preply’s marketplace simply prices lower: 67% of the Wyzant tutors we read charge $60 or more, but only 7% of Preply’s do. So a rule we chose for unrelated reasons filters out most of one platform before scoring even begins.

2. We only read US-style grades so far. Our extractor understands letter grades (A–F) and percentages, and nothing else — yet. Preply is an international marketplace, and its students routinely report gains on IB (1–7), GCSE (9–1), or SAT (200–800) scales (“from a 3 to a 6,” “580 to 680”). We currently discard every one of those as unreadable. That is a real gap in our tooling — not vagueness on the reviewers’ part — and it falls almost entirely on Preply. We intend to fix it.

So the composition of this board is not evidence that Wyzant tutors are better. It reflects a price rule and a parsing limitation, both ours, both fixable. We’d rather name them than let the leaderboard imply something it hasn’t earned.

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TutorRank is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Wyzant, Preply, or any tutoring platform. Data is collected from public profiles and reflects a snapshot in time; rates, availability, and reviews change. Always check the tutor’s own profile before booking. We earn no commission on any booking.