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Written question asked by Greg Mulholland (Liberal Democrat) on Friday, 12 March 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 16 March 2010. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Thursday, 18 March 2010 on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

GCSE: Leeds

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of pupils in state schools in Leeds North West constituency achieved five GCSEs including mathematics and English in (a) 1997 and (b) the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer

The requested information is provided in the following table for the 2003/04 and the 2008/09 academic years. Information about whether a pupil achieved five or more GCSEs or equivalent including English and maths GCSEs has only been available on the Department's National Pupil Database since the 2003/04 academic year.

Percentage of pupils attending maintained schools¹ in Leeds, North-West constituency² achieving five or more GCSEs or equivalent³ including English and mathematics GCSEs, 2003/04 and 2008/094
2003/04 2008/09
Percentage of pupils in Leeds, North-West constituency achieving five or more GCSEs or equivalent including English and mathematics GCSEs 89.7 91.3
¹ All maintained schools (including city technology colleges and academies).
² Parliamentary constituency figures do not include pupils recently arrived from overseas.
³ Figures for 2003/04 include GNVQ equivalences and in 2008/09 other equivalences approved for use pre-16.
4 Figures for 2003/04 are based on pupils aged 15 years old at the start of the academic year. Figures for 2008/09 are based on pupils at the end of Key Stage 4.
Source:
National Pupil Database and Achievement and Attainment Tables (2003/04 final data, 2008/09 amended data)

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
507 c1057W; 322697
Session
2009-10
Subjects
Leeds GCSE
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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