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A-level Grades

Answer

The information requested on the proportion of students obtaining three or more A grades at A-level by school type is in the following table.

16 to 18-year-old candidates achieving at least three A grades at A-level—1995 to 2004
	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
3 A grades in mathematics
Number of students achieving	20	47	50	23	32
Percentage in comprehensive	0.0	8.5	8.0	4.3	0.0
in grammar	20.0	14.9	12.0	17.4	15.6
in independent	80.0	74.5	68.0	69.6	71.9
in FE sector	0.0	2.1	12.0	8.7	12.5
3 A grades in languages
Number of students achieving	17	19	19	31	16
Percentage in comprehensive	11.8	13.3	10.5	19.4	12.5
in grammar	11.8	0.0	15.8	9.7	25.0
in independent	41.2	40.0	26.3	38.7	31.3
in FE sector	35.3	46.7	47.4	32.3	31.3
3 A grades in sciences
Number of students achieving	611	621	729	802	900
Percentage in comprehensive	19.1	19.3	22.2	17.6	21.0
in grammar	14.2	138	15.5	15.6	18.7
in independent	55.8	53.3	48.4	52.0	46.8
in FE sector	10.8	13.5	13.9	14.8	13.6
3 A grades in any subjects
Number of students achieving	12,698	13,305	14,065	15,874	16,550
Percentage in comprehensive	28.1	28.6	28.4	28.6	29.0
in grammar	12.9	12.7	13.4	14.0	14.7
in independent	41.0	40.3	40.4	39.0	38.4
in FE sector	18.0	18.4	17.8	18.4	17.9
3 A grades in languages, mathematics and sciences
Number of students achieving	5,062	5,218	5,518	6,300	6,371
Percentage in comprehensive	26.3	25.7	26.4	26.3	27.6
in grammar	13.4	13.1	13.3	14.1	15.0
in independent	45.1	46.0	45.0	44.3	43.2
in FE sector	15.3	15.2	15.3	15.3	14.2
3 A grades in sciences and mathematics
Number of students achieving	4,664	4,732	5,015	5,756	5,828
Percentage in comprehensive	26.4	25.5	26.7	26.3	27.8
in grammar	13.1	13.1	13.2	14.1	15.0
in independent	45.2	46.3	44.9	44.3	42.9
in FE sector	15.3	15.1	15.2	15.2	14.3

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
3 A grades in mathematics
Number of students achieving	33	29	39	51	50
Percentage in comprehensive	6.1	3.4	10.3	0.0	0.0
in grammar	12.1	3.4	17.9	7.8	10.0
in independent	75.8	79.3	69.2	86.3	88.0
in FE sector	6.1	13.8	2.6	5.9	2.0
3 A grades in languages
Number of students achieving	20	16	28	45	34
Percentage in comprehensive	10.0	6.3	10.7	11.1	8.8
in grammar	10.0	6.3	17.9	2.2	2.9
in independent	65.0	43.8	46.4	55.6	73.5
in FE sector	15.0	43.8	25.0	31.1	14.7
3 A grades in sciences
Number of students achieving	887	881	1,274	1,168	1,192
Percentage in comprehensive	234	21.7	23.0	22.2	25.3
in grammar	17.1	18.6	19.2	19.4	17.6
in independent	45.4	46.5	43.5	46.1	45.0
in FE sector	14.0	13.2	14.4	12.2	12.1
3 A grades in any subjects
Number of students achieving	17,014	17,900	20,443	22,365	23,953
Percentage in comprehensive	29.2	28.6	28.5	28.2	27.5
in grammar	14.9	15.9	16.6	15.7	16.4
in independent	38.2	37.3	37.5	37.7	37.7
in FE sector	17.7	18.3	17.5	18.4	18.4
3 A grades in languages, mathematics and sciences
Number of students achieving	6,201	6,309	6,991	6,963	7,368
Percentage in comprehensive	26.9	27.2	25.8	25.6	24.6
in grammar	15.3	16.1	17.9	16.5	17.1
in independent	42.7	42.4	41.8	43.4	43.4
in FE sector	15.1	14.3	14.5	14.5	14.8
3 A grades in sciences and mathematics
Number of students achieving	5,657	5,695	6,236	6,161	6,556
Percentage in comprehensive	27.3	27.7	26.5	26.1	25.2
in grammar	15.1	15.9	18.1	16.9	17.4
in independent	42.1	41.6	40.5	41.9	42.1
in FE sector	15.4	14.8	14.9	15.1	15.2

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

1738; 434 c326-8W;434 c328-30W

Session

2005-06

Subjects

Grammar schools Languages Private education Standards Schools Science Mathematics GCE A-level

Contains statistics

Yes