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Written question asked by Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative) on Monday, 7 September 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 14 September 2009. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Monday, 5 October 2009 on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

Sixth Form Education

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate his Department has made of the number of students educated to GCSE level in the independent sector taking up places in maintained school sixth forms or colleges for 16-19 education in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answer

[holding answer 14 September 2009]: The table shows estimates of the numbers and percentages of young people who attended independent schools in the academic year when they reached 16 and who then went to study at a maintained school or college the following year.The source of the data is matched administrative data which is used to track progress in the early years of post-compulsory education. The estimates have been rounded to the nearest thousand.

Attended independent school in academic year¹ reached 16 then attended maintained school or college² the next academic year³
Numbers Percentage4
2002/03-2003/04 10,000 25
2003/04-2004/05 11,000 25
2004/05-2005/06 11,000 25
2005/06-2006/07 12,000 26
2006/07-2007/08 12,000 27
¹ First academic year shown in row headings.
² Includes Academies, City Technology Colleges and other mainstream maintained schools, 6th form colleges and other FE colleges.
³ Second academic year shown in row headings.
4 The denominator for the percentage is all those in the dataset who attended independent schools in the academic year they reached 16.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
496 c2313-4W; 291133
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Sixth form education
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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