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GCSE and GCE A-level

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The following tables provide a breakdown of the number and percentage of pupils achieving five or more A* to C grades in their GCSEs by the end of Key Stage 4, banded by expenditure per pupil in local authority maintained secondary schools and academies respectively.

Number and percentage of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 achieving five GCSEs at grade A* to C, excluding equivalents, including English and maths GCSEs, banded by expenditure¹, ² per pupil³ in authority maintained secondary schools
Expenditure based on cash terms figures as reported by local authorities as at 10 March 2010
Expenditure per pupil³	Number of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 achieving five or more GCSEs at grade A* to C, excluding equivalents, including English and maths GCSEs4	Percentage of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 achieving five or more GCSEs at grade A* to C, excluding equivalents, including English and maths GCSEs4
Less than or equal to £4,500	112,706	60.8
More than £4,500 and less than or equal to £5,000	87,247	51.7
More than £5,000 and less than or equal to £5,500	37,604	42.1
More than £5,500	36,697	34.8
¹ School based expenditure includes only expenditure incurred directly by the schools. This includes the pay of teachers and school-based support staff, school premises costs, books and equipment, and certain other supplies and services, less any capital items funded from recurrent spending and income from sales, fees and charges and rents and rates. This excludes the central cost of support services such as home to school transport, local authority administration and the financing of capital expenditure.
² Total expenditure is based upon the financial year 2008-09.
³ Pupil numbers include all those pupils attending maintained establishments and are drawn from the 2009 DCSF Annual Schools Census.
4 Including attempts and achievements in previous academic years
Notes:
1. These figures cover only maintained schools and only those for which both 2008-09 financial data and 2009 academic achievement data are available.
2. The number of schools within each banding (ascending) are 934, 857, 479 and 686 respectively.
Source:
Financial data are taken from local authorities' 2008-09 Children, Schools and Families Outturn Statements (formally section 52) submitted to the DCSF while pupil numbers are drawn from the DCSF January 2009 Schools Census. GCSE details are from the Achievement and Attainment Tables (AAT).

Number and percentage of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 achieving five A* to C grades at GCSE, excluding equivalents, including English and maths GCSEs, banded by expenditure¹ per pupil in academies²
Expenditure¹ per pupil	Number of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 achieving five or more GCSEs at grade A* to C, excluding equivalents, including English and maths GCSEs³	Percentage of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 achieving five or more GCSEs at grade A* to C, excluding equivalents, including English and maths GCSEs³
Less than or equal to £4,500	0	0.0
More than £4,500 and less than or equal to £5,000	972	42.3
More than £5,000 and less than or equal to £5,500	1,400	30.4
More than £5,500	4,308	33.6
¹ Academy allocations include a VAT grant and a Local Authority Central Services Equivalent Grant (LACSEG), local authority maintained schools do not receive these grants. Academies receive a VAT grant because they incur VAT on purchases and services, whereas local authority maintained schools in general do not or can reclaim it. LACSEG is paid to academies to enable them to purchase/provide services normally funded and provided to maintained schools from the local authority's central budget, which an academy does not have access to.
² The number of schools within each banding (ascending) are 1, 11, 29 and 81 respectively.
³ Including attempts and achievements in previous academic years.
Source:
GCSE details are from the Achievement and Attainment Tables (AAT).

The Government and local authorities allocate significant additional funds to schools that support deprived pupils, who tend to achieve less well than their more advantaged peers. This is reflected in the data. It remains a high Government priority, as set out in "Investing for the future, protecting the front line: school funding 2011-13" (published on 15 March 2010), to ensure that additional funds go towards children who need extra support to reach their potential, so that the gap between the attainment of disadvantaged children and the rest continues to narrow. Further, many local authorities choose to give additional funding to schools based on low attainment or low prior attainment.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

508 c1453-4W; 312790

Session

2009-10

Subjects

GCSE

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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