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Written question asked by David Laws (Liberal Democrat) on Monday, 9 January 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 11 January 2006. It was answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern (Labour) on Monday, 16 January 2006 on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills.

Academic Performance

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on academic performance by (a) primary and (b) secondary pupils in (i) Somerset schools, (ii) England and (iii) the south west.
Answer

The 2005 national results show that standards in both primary and secondary schools are continuing to rise, with improvements at every key stage this year. Since 1997 at key stage 2, English has increased by 16 percentage points (pp) to 79 per cent. and in maths by 13 pp to 75 per cent.. Provisional results at key stage 3 show English has increased by 17 pp to 74 per cent.; in maths by 14 pp to 74 per cent.; in science by 10 pp to 60 per cent.; and in ICT by 19 pp to 69 per cent. At key stage 4 provisional results show the percentage of pupils achieving 5+A*-C GCSEs has increased by 10.6 pp to 55.7 per cent.Standards of educational attainment in both primary and secondary schools in (a) Somerset and (b) the south west show that performance is above that of the national average. A summary of the 2005 outcomes is set out in the following table.Information about education and skills by constituency is made available by the Department through the ‘In Your Area' web site, available at http://www.dfes.gov.uk/inyourarea.

Performance level(15)
Primary—KS2 percentage achieved level 4+ Secondary—KS3 percentage achievedlevel 5+ Secondary—KS4 percentage achieved 5+ A*-C
English Maths Science English Maths Science ICT GCSE or equivalent
Somerset 80 76 88 77 77 75 75 57.9
National 79 75 86 74 74 70 69 55.7
South West 79 75 87 75 75 73 72 55.8
(15) Data for KS2 is amended. For KS3 and KS4 data is provisional.
(16) Overall figures for Bath and NE Somerset, North Somerset and Somerset local authorities.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
41452; 441 c995-6W
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Education Primary education Standards Secondary education Somerset South West
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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