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GCSE

Answer

[holding answer 25 February 2010]: The requested figures are given in the following table 2009.This answer has been derived from the achievement and attainment tables data.The majority of pupils take Science GCSE (also referred to as core science) and Additional Science GCSE. This combination of science GCSEs provides a perfectly good foundation for further study of physics, chemistry and biology at A level.The number of maintained schools that had pupils that were entered for all three sciences has increased from just over 600 in 2002 to just over 1,500 in 2009.The Government have introduced a statutory entitlement for all pupils in maintained schools to be able to study at least two science GCSEs, specifically this includes core and additional science or the three separate science GCSEs of physics, chemistry and biology.There is a further non-statutory entitlement that those pupils who have achieved at least level 6 at key stage 3 will be given the opportunity to study triple science at GCSE either at their own school or through collaborative arrangements with other schools and colleges.Since September 2008 all specialist science schools have to offer triple science to at least all pupils achieving level 6+ at the end of key stage 3. Since September 2009 we have expected all engineering and technology colleges to offer triple science, and expect all mathematics and computing colleges to do so from September 2010.

	Number of comprehensive schools entering no pupils at the end of key stage 4 for GCSEs in	Number of maintained mainstream schools entering no pupils at the end of key stage 4 for GCSEs in
LA name	Biology	Chemistry	Physics	All three separate sciences	Biology	Chemistry	Physics	All three separate sciences
City of London	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Camden	2	3	3	3	2	3	3	3
Greenwich	6	7	7	7	6	7	7	7
Hackney	4	6	6	6	4	6	6	6
Hammersmith and Fulham	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Islington	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Kensington and Chelsea	2	3	4	4	2	3	4	4
Lambeth	2	3	3	3	2	3	3	3
Lewisham	4	4	5	5	4	4	5	5
Southwark	5	7	6	8	5	7	6	8
Tower Hamlets	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Wandsworth	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Westminster	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Barking and Dagenham	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Barnet	7	9	9	9	9	11	11	11
Bexley	4	4	4	4	9	9	9	9
Brent	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Bromley	5	5	4	5	5	5	4	5
Croydon	9	10	10	10	10	11	11	11
Ealing	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Enfield	8	9	9	9	9	10	10	10
Haringey	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Harrow	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Havering	10	9	10	10	10	9	10	10
Hillingdon	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Hounslow	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
Kingston upon Thames	0	0	0	0	3	4	3	4
Merton	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Newham	10	10	11	11	10	10	11	11
Redbridge	3	5	5	5	3	5	5	5
Richmond upon Thames	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Sutton	4	5	5	5	4	5	5	5
Waltham Forest	12	12	12	13	12	12	12	13
Birmingham	38	38	38	39	38	38	38	39
Coventry	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Dudley	14	13	13	14	14	13	13	14
Sandwell	12	11	12	12	12	11	12	12
Solihull	6	7	7	7	6	7	7	7
Walsall	7	8	8	9	7	8	8	9
Wolverhampton	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13
Knowsley	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
Liverpool	14	14	13	14	14	14	13	14
St. Helens	6	7	7	7	6	7	7	7
Sefton	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Wirral	4	4	4	4	7	7	7	7
Bolton	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Bury	9	8	8	9	9	8	8	9
Manchester	14	16	16	16	14	16	16	16
Oldham	7	7	7	8	7	7	7	8
Rochdale	10	10	9	11	10	10	9	11
Salford	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Stockport	6	7	7	7	6	7	7	7
Tameside	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
Trafford	0	0	0	0	9	9	10	10
Wigan	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Barnsley	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Doncaster	8	9	9	9	8	9	9	9
Rotherham	6	6	6	7	6	6	6	7
Sheffield	13	14	12	14	13	14	12	14
Bradford	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17
Calderdale	7	7	7	7	8	8	8	8
Kirklees	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12
Leeds	16	17	16	17	16	17	16	17
Wakefield	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Gateshead	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Newcastle upon Tyne	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
North Tyneside	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
South Tyneside	3	3	4	4	4	4	5	5
Sunderland	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Isles of Scilly	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bath and North East Somerset	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Bristol, City of	7	7	8	8	7	7	8	8
North Somerset	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
South Gloucestershire	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Hartlepool	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Middlesbrough	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Redcar and Cleveland	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Stockton-on-Tees	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Kingston upon Hull, City of	11	10	10	11	11	10	10	11
East Riding of Yorkshire	6	6	6	7	6	6	6	7
North East Lincolnshire	6	6	5	6	6	6	5	6
North Lincolnshire	5	5	3	5	5	5	3	5
North Yorkshire	20	20	21	21	21	23	24	24
York	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Luton	5	6	6	6	5	6	6	6
Bedford	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Central Bedfordshire	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Buckinghamshire	0	0	0	0	19	20	20	20
Milton Keynes	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Derbyshire	21	23	23	23	21	23	23	23
Derby	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Dorset	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
Poole	2	2	2	2	4	4	4	4
Bournemouth	2	2	2	2	4	7	7	7
Durham	27	27	26	27	27	27	26	27
Darlington	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
East Sussex	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
Brighton and Hove	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Hampshire	24	25	25	25	24	25	25	25
Portsmouth	5	6	6	7	5	6	6	7
Southampton	7	7	6	7	7	7	6	7
Leicestershire	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Leicester	8	8	8	8	9	9	9	9
Rutland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Staffordshire	24	24	24	24	24	24	24	24
Stoke-on-Trent	8	8	8	9	8	8	8	9
Wiltshire	10	10	10	10	14	14	14	14
Swindon	2	5	5	5	2	5	5	5
Bracknell Forest	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Windsor and Maidenhead	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
West Berkshire	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Reading	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Slough	1	1	1	1	7	8	8	8
Wokingham	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Cambridgeshire	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Peterborough	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Halton	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Warrington	5	5	5	6	5	5	5	6
Devon	13	16	16	16	13	16	16	16
Plymouth	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Torbay	5	5	5	5	7	7	7	7
Essex	29	29	29	30	29	29	29	30
Southend-on-sea	4	5	4	5	6	7	6	7
Thurrock	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Herefordshire	8	9	9	10	8	9	9	10
Worcestershire	13	13	14	14	13	13	15	15
Kent	8	12	12	12	38	52	49	52
Medway	1	1	1	1	9	10	11	12
Lancashire	31	36	36	38	32	37	37	39
Blackburn with Darwen	7	7	6	7	7	7	6	7
Blackpool	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
Nottinghamshire	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23
Nottingham	10	11	12	12	10	11	12	12
Shropshire	13	14	14	14	13	14	14	14
Telford and Wrekin	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Cheshire East	7	7	7	7	8	8	8	8
Cheshire West and Chester	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Cornwall	11	12	12	12	11	12	12	12
Cumbria	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	21
Gloucestershire	17	16	16	17	18	17	17	18
Hertfordshire	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31
Isle of Wight	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Lincolnshire	8	9	9	10	26	28	29	30
Norfolk	24	26	26	26	24	26	26	26
Northamptonshire	12	11	11	12	12	11	11	12
Northumberland	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Oxfordshire	15	16	16	16	15	16	16	16
Somerset	14	15	14	15	14	15	14	15
Suffolk	14	17	17	17	14	17	17	17
Surrey	14	17	16	17	14	17	16	17
Warwickshire	9	10	10	10	12	13	14	14
West Sussex	15	16	16	16	15	16	16	16

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

508 c1570-6W; 318672

Session

2009-10

Subjects

GCSE

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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