Written question asked by Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative) on Monday, 10 October 2016, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 13 October 2016 (named day). It was answered by Nick Gibb (Conservative) on Wednesday, 2 November 2016 on behalf of the Department for Education.

GCSE

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which (a) selective, (b) partially selective and (c) comprehensive local authority areas in England ranked by correlating guaranteed per pupil against the proportion of pupils attaining five or more grade A* to C GCSEs including English and mathematics in core subjects in the last year for which data is available.

Answer

The percentage of pupils achieving 5 A* - C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics for areas with different selection policies is listed in the table below. These figures relate to 2014/2015 final data.

	GCSE and equivalents
	Pupils at state funded schools at the end of key stage 4 2014/2015	Proportion of pupils achieving 5A*-C grade GCSEs including English and Maths
Fully selective areas¹	47,258	60.6
Partially selective areas²	124,962	58.4
Non-selective areas	378,534	56.6

Source: Key Stage 4 attainment data: final

Notes:

1. Includes schools in the following areas which operate area wide arrangements for academic selection: Bexley, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Medway, Slough, Southend, Sutton, Torbay and Trafford.

2. Includes schools in twenty-six local authorities that have selective schools operating their own arrangements for academic selection.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 47821
Session: 2016-17
Subjects: Grammar schools Pupils Standards Schools GCSE Comprehensive schools
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.parliament.uk

GCSE

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