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Written question asked by Lord Lucas (Conservative) on Thursday, 27 February 2025, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 13 March 2025. It was answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern (Labour) on Monday, 24 March 2025 on behalf of the Department for Education.

Students: Travel

Question

To ask His Majesty's Government, for each of the postcode areas BN20, BN21, BN22 and BN23, and for the BN postcode area as a whole, for pupils who did their GCSEs in each of the summers of 2022, 2023 and 2024, what number of pupils at state schools progressed to (1) academic sixth forms in independent schools, (2) academic sixth form in state schools, (3) state sixth form colleges and state further education colleges, (4) vocational qualifications at state colleges, (5) apprenticeships, (6) work and (7) unemployment; and, for each of those educational destinations, what was the average distance as the crow flies between home and 16-18 education.

Answer

The information requested is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

However, the department publishes annual data on the destinations sustained, rather than progressed to, by pupils in the academic year following the end of key stage 4 study. This information includes detail on the number of pupils who sustained education, apprenticeships and employment destinations, or did not sustain any, by institution. This can be accessed at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-4-destination-measures#explore-data-and-files.

The latest available data is for the 2021/22 cohort of school leavers, completing GCSEs in summer 2022, and their sustained activity in the following year. Institution level data is available in the release, however, the geographic indicators in these statistics relate to school location rather than pupil location. All destinations are presented against the institution they completed key stage 4.

The underlying data does not include information on pupils’ home postcodes and distance to institutions. This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL5361
Session
2024-26
Subjects
Travel Apprentices Employment Further education Pupils Students Sixth form education
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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