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Dept for Education and Employment

Answer

Mr. Robert Banks: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many primary schools in England and Wales have opted into grant-maintained status; and what are the average league tables scores for (a) grant-maintained schools and (b) schools under local education authority control. [20675] Mrs. Gillan: There are now 486 grant-maintained primary schools in England. Pupil attainments are generally higher in GM schools than LEA schools; details of their relative performance in national curriculum assessments and GCSE examinations are given in the following tables. Grant-maintained schools in Wales are a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales. Table 1: Percentage of 7-year-old pupils achieving National Curriculum level 2 and above, 1996 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. English Mathematics Science Key stage 1 TA Test TA Test TA Test LEA schools 79 -- 82 82 84 -- Reading 78 78 -- -- -- -- Writing 76 80 -- -- -- -- Speaking and listening 82 -- -- -- -- -- GM schools 85 -- 86 87 88 -- Reading 84 84 -- -- -- -- Writing 82 85 -- -- -- -- Speaking and listening 85 -- -- -- -- -- _________________________________________________________________________________________________. TA = teacher assessment. Test = national test. Table 2: Percentage of 11-year-old pupils achieving National Curriculum level 4 and above, 1996 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. English Mathematics Science Key stage 2 TA Test TA Test TA Test LEA schools 60 57 60 54 65 62 GM schools 64 63 64 60 69 68 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. TA = teacher assessment. Test = national test. Table 3: Percentage of 14-year-old pupils achieving National Curriculum level 5 and above, 1996 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. English Mathematics Science Key stage 3 TA Test TA Test TA Test LEA schools 60 56 61 56 59 55 GM schools 68 65 69 65 68 65 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. TA= teacher assessment. Test = national test. Table 4: Percentage of 15-year-old pupils achieving graded GCSE results in 1996 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. GCSE passes 5 A+-C 5 A+-G 1+ A-G 4A: all schools LEA schools 40.6 87.1 93.4 GM schools 50.1 91.1 95.3 4B: comprehensive schools only LEA comprehensives 40.0 87.0 93.3 GM comprehensives 46.4 91.1 95.6 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

20675; 292 c528-9W

Session

1996-97

Subjects

Education Grant maintained schools Local education authorities Primary education Standards Schools

Contains statistics

Yes