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Written question asked by Lord Mann (Labour) on Thursday, 23 June 2011, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 28 June 2011. It was answered by Nick Gibb (Conservative) on Wednesday, 6 July 2011 on behalf of the Department for Education.

GCSE: Assessments

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what results pupils of each school of the Schools Partnership Trust achieved in GCSE examinations in each of the last 10 years; and what the rate of (a) truancy and (b) (i) temporary and (ii) permanent exclusion was in each school in each such year.
Answer

[holding answer 28 June 2011]: The available information for state-funded secondary schools in the Schools Partnership Trust is shown in the following table.Information for Garforth Academy and Rossington All Saints Academy is not available as these schools opened in November 2010 and April 2011 respectively.

GCSE examination results, rates of authorised and unauthorised absence and percentage of fixed period and permanent exclusions in state-funded schools in the School Partnership Trust 2009/10
Percentage of pupils achieving 5+ A*-C GCSEs (or equivalent) including English and maths GCSEs Authorised absence rate¹ Unauthorised rate¹ Percentage of fixed period exclusions² Percentage of permanent exclusions²
De Warenne Academy 30 6.61 2.27 ³— ³—
South Leeds Academy 29 8.47 6.01 ³— ³—
¹ The number of sessions missed due to authorised/unauthorised absence expressed as a percentage of the total number of possible sessions.
² The number of permanent/fixed period exclusions expressed as a percentage of the number (headcount) of all pupils (excluding dually registered).
³ Not available. Exclusion data for 2009/10 is due to be published at the end of July 2011.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
62700; 530 c1300W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Pupil exclusions Truancy Academies GCSE
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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