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Dept for Education and Employment

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Mr. Hilary Benn: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list in rank order, for the latest year for which information is available, pupil attainment for (i) Key Stage 1, (ii) Key Stage 2, (iii) Key Stage 3, (iv) Key Stage 4, (v) GCSE and (vi) A levels for the following local education authorities (i) Leeds, (ii) Sheffield, (iii) Liverpool, (iv) Islington, (v) Hackney and (vi) Hull. [109009] Ms Estelle Morris: The available information for 1999 is shown in the table. For the Key Stage 1, 2 and 3 results, the Local Education Authorities have been ranked using the sum across subjects of the percentage of pupils attaining the given levels in the tests/tasks. There is no measure of pupil attainment for Key Stage 4. Percentage of pupils achieving level 2 or above key stage 1 test/tasks and teacher assessments in 1999 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Test/Tasks Teacher Assessments Reading Writing Spelling Mathematics Aggregate English Mathematics Science Leeds 83 83 75 86 327 83 86 86 Liverpool 82 82 70 85 319 81 85 85 Sheffield 78 81 68 86 313 79 83 84 Hull 74 76 63 83 296 74 81 82 Islington 74 73 60 81 288 75 80 79 Hackney 71 72 58 79 280 71 77 75 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Percentage of pupils achieving level 4 or above key stage 2 tests and teacher assessments in 1999 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Test/Tasks Teacher Assessments English Mathematics Science Aggregate English Mathematics Science Leeds 72 71 81 224 65 68 73 Islington 65 65 73 203 62 66 71 Sheffield 63 65 73 201 61 65 71 Liverpool 64 62 71 197 63 64 70 Hull 58 61 72 191 55 60 66 Hackney 53 55 59 167 53 56 58 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Percentage of pupils achieving level 5 or above key stage 3 tests and teacher assessments 1999 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Tests Teacher Assessments English Mathematics Science Aggregate English Mathematics Science Leeds 61 59 51 171 58 61 57 Sheffield 59 57 50 166 55 56 54 Liverpool 55 50 43 148 55 53 49 Hull 42 44 38 124 41 46 39 Hackney 46 40 29 115 45 47 38 Islington 45 38 30 113 42 44 37 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Pupils aged 15 gaining 5 + GCSE Grades A*-C or the GNVQ equivalent in 1999 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Percentage 5 A*-C GCSE/GNQV Leeds 39.4 Sheffield 37.6 Liverpool 32.4 Hackney 27.8 Islington 27.4 Hull 23.4 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Average point score per student aged 16-18 entered for 2 or more GCE A/AS examinations in 1999 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Average score per candidate Leeds 18.5 Sheffield 18.4 Liverpool 16.7 Hull 14.0 Islington 12.0 Hackney 11.4 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

344 c42-4W;344 c42-3W; 109009

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Assessments Leeds Kingston upon Hull Liverpool Standards Sheffield Islington Hackney

Contains statistics

Yes