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Dept for Education and Skills

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Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many entrants graded A*, A and B at GCSE level in (a) French, (b) German and (c) Spanish were from (i) independent, (ii) grammar and (iii) maintained schools in (A) 2003 and (B) 2004; and what percentage of each cohort this was in each case. [221218] Mr. Stephen Twigg: The following tables show for (A) 2003 and (B) 2004 the numbers of entrants and those achieving grades A*-B at GCSE (a) French, (b) German and (c) Spanish by type of institution, together with the proportions of the whole cohort that these pupil numbers represent: (A) 2003 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. (a) French Entered Achieving A*-B School type (admissions Number of 15- Number Percentage of Number Percentage of basis) year-old pupils cohort cohort Grammar schools 21,706 13,553 62 10,525 48 Maintained schools 577,791 275,866 48 65,087 11 Independent schools 44,331 28,606 65 22,971 52 All schools 622,122 304,472 49 88,058 14 (b) German School type (admissions Number of 15- Number Percentage of Number Percentage of basis) year-old cohort cohort pupils Grammar schools 21,706 8,163 38 5,619 26 Maintained schools 577,791 112,583 19 29,065 5 Independent schools 44,331 8,076 18 6,513 15 All schools 622,122 120,659 19 35,578 6 (c) Spanish School type (admissions Number of 15- Number Percentage of Number Percentage of basis) year-old cohort cohort pupils Grammar schools 21,706 3,121 14 2,216 10 Maintained schools 577,791 43,273 7 11,981 2 Independent schools 44,331 8,026 18 6,445 15 All schools 622,122 51,299 8 18,426 3 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. (B) 2004 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. (a) French School type (admissions Number of 15- Number Percentage of Number Percentage of basis) year-old cohort cohort pupils Grammar schools 22,241 13,723 62 10,445 47 Maintained schools 596,615 260,346 44 66,350 11 Independent schools 46,959 29,363 63 23,411 50 All schools 643,574 289,709 45 89,761 14 (b) German School type (admissions Number of 15- Number Percentage of Number Percentage of basis) year-old cohort cohort pupils Grammar schools 22,241 8,204 37 5,685 26 Maintained schools 596,615 108,189 18 31,462 5 Independent schools 46,959 8,156 17 6,528 14 All schools 643,574 116,345 18 37,990 6 (c) Spanish School type (admissions Number of 15- Number Percentage of Number Percentage of basis) year-old cohort cohort pupils Grammar schools 22,241 3,358 15 2,410 11 Maintained schools 596,615 44,909 8 13,665 2 Independent schools 46,959 8,629 18 6,970 15 All schools 643,574 53,538 8 20,635 3 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c13-6W; 221218

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Assessments Languages Germany France Standards Spain GCSE

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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