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Dept for Education and Skills

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Mr. Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what research he has carried out, and what conclusions he has reached, on the effect of in- year pupil mobility on educational achievement; and what rates of pupil mobility were experienced in 2003-04 in each local education authority-supported school in Newcastle upon Tyne. [204416] Mr. Stephen Twigg: The Department has not conducted any research into the particular effects of in-year pupil mobility on educational achievement. However, some general research has been conducted into the nature and causes of pupil mobility in schools. A report published by the Department in 1999 concludes that high pupil mobility in schools is strongly associated with factors of social deprivation, family break-up, temporary accommodation and other rented housing occupied by poorer families moving around. In terms of the link between pupil mobility and achievement, analysis of provisional 2004 GCSE data shows that pupils who joined their current secondary school at any time other than the start of a school year (in-year mobility), on average, achieved 27 GCSE points fewer at age 15 than other pupils with similar characteristics, including similar attainment at age 11. This approximately equates to achieving one grade lower in 4 or 5 subjects at GCSE. With regard to the pupil mobility rates, the Department collects mobility indicators for primary schools. The mobility indicator is defined as the percentage of pupils eligible for Key Stage 2 assessment that are included in the value added calculation, who took both their Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 tests at the same school. The mobility indicator for each local education authority-supported school in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2003/04 is given in the following table: Primary school mobility indicators, 2003/04, Newcastle upon Tyne _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Name of school Postcode Mobility indicator (percentage) Beech Hill Primary School NE5 2LW 7 Atkinson Road Primary School NE4 8XT 68 Throckley Primary School NE159JN 1-- Newburn Manor Primary School NE158PY 1-- Walbottle Village Primary School NE158JL 1-- West Denton Primary School NE51DN 1-- Knop Law First School NE51LH 1-- Milecastle Primary School NE51LH 1-- Cheviot Primary School NE54EB 75 Waverley Primary School NE157QZ 1-- Simonside Primary School NE54LG 76 Fame Primary School NE54AP 100 Lemington Riverside Primary School NE158RR 1-- Westerhope Primary School NE51NE Byker Primary School NE6 2AT 70 West Jesmond Primary School NE2 3AJ 83 Benton Park Primary School NE7 7SS 82 Hawthorn Primary School NE4 6SB 52 Canning Street Primary School NE4 SPA 63 Chillingham Road Primary School NE6 5XL 72 Cragside Primary School NE7 7EL 86 Delaval Community Primary School NE156NR 72 Broadwood Primary School NE157TB 67 Tyneview Primary School NE6 3QP 72 North Fawdon Primary School NE3 2SL 92 Hilton Primary School NE53RN 70 Montagu Primary School NE5 3HY 43 Mountfield Primary School NE3 3AT 76 Ravenswood Primary School NE6 5TU 91 South Benwell Primary School NE4 SHE 89 Stocksfield Avenue Primary School NE52DQ 81 Walkergate Primary School NE6 4SD 86 Thomas Walling Primary School NE5 3PL 70 Welbeck Primary School NE6 2QL 81 Westgate Hill Primary School NE4 6NY 70 West Walker Primary School NE6 3XB 85 Wharrier Street Primary School NE63EY 80 Wingrove Primary School NE4 9HP 58 Wyndham Primary School NE3 4QP 91 Kenton Bar Primary School NE3 3YF 77 Kingston Park Primary School NE3 2EL 79 Hotspur Primary School NE6 SPA 84 Moorside Community Primary School NE4 SAW 73 Christ Church C of E Primary School, NE2 1XA 75 Newcastle St. Anthony's C of E Primary School NE6 3SU 77 St. Charles' RC Primary School NE3 SHE 93 St. Oswald's RC Primary School NE3 5LE 94 St. Mark's RC Primary School NE5 4BT 78 St. George's RC Primary School NE156XX 78 St. Cuthbert's RC Primary School NE158JL 89 St. John Vianney RC Primary School NE51DN 93 St. Paul's C of E Primary School NE4 7JU 88 English Martyrs' RC Primary School NE5 2SA 85 Sacred Heart RC Primary School NE4 9XZ 97 St. Bede's RC Primary School NE157HS 76 St. Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School NE3 3QR 97 St. Catherine's RC Primary School NE21PS 72 St. Joseph's RC Primary School NE156JB 86 St. Lawrence's RC Primary School NE6 2JX 97 Our Lady and St. Anne's RC Voluntary Aided NE4 6EB 85 Primary School St. Michael's RC Primary School NE4 7RE 79 St. Teresa's Catholic Primary School NE6 5HN 94 St. Vincent's RC Primary School NE6 2TX 97 St. Alban's RC Primary School NE6 4HQ 86 Chapel Park Middle School NE5 1SH 0 Chapel House Middle School NE51EL 0 Throckley Middle School NE159DY 0 Gosforth Central Middle School NE31UN 0 Gosforth West Middle School NE3 1DY 0 Gosforth East Middle School NE3 5JT 0 Trinity School NE4 8XJ 2-- Hadrian School NE156PX 77 Thomas Bewick School NE51DP 2-- _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 No data was made available for those schools. 2 Small schools with less than 11 pupils. In these cases results were not included.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

204416; 428 c1706-8W;428 c1704-6W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Education Pupils Newcastle upon Tyne Migration Standards GCSE

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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