Education statistics

Qualifications 2015/16

GCSEs

• 83.3 per cent of year 12 students attained five or more GCSEs (or equivalent) at grades A* to C
• 67.9 per cent of year 12 students attained five or more GCSEs (or equivalent), including maths and English, at grades A* to C
• 47 per cent of year 12 FSME students attained five or more GCSEs (or equivalent), including maths and English, at grades A* to C
• 75.6 per cent of year 12 non-FSME students attained five or more GCSEs (or equivalent), including maths and English, at grades A* to C
• 35.9 per cent of non-grammar FSME students attained five or more GCSEs (or equivalent), including maths and English, at grades A* to C
• 95.6 per cent of grammar non-FSME students attained five or more GCSEs (or equivalent), including maths and English, at grades A* to C

A-levels

• 13,253 year 14 students were eligible for A-level examinations
• 59.6 per cent of year 14 pupils attend grammar schools
• Overall 66.3 per cent of year 14 students attained three or more A-levels at grades A* to C
• Females generally outperformed their male peers: 68.6 per cent achieved three or more A-levels compared with 63.3 per cent of male students
• 76.3 per cent of grammar school students achieved three or more A-levels at grades A* to C compared with 51.5 per cent of non-grammar
• 53.6 per cent of year 14 FSME students achieved three or more A-levels at grades A*-C compared with 69 per cent of non-FSME students

School leaver destinations 2015/16

• 95.8 per cent of leavers entered Education, Employment or Training
• 42.9 per cent of leavers continued into higher education
• This is an increase of 1.2 per cent on 2010/11
• 50.3 per cent of female leavers and 35.7 per cent of male
• 38.7 per cent of protestant pupils and 45.9 of catholic
• 81.4 per cent of leavers not entitled to free school meals continued into higher or further education
• 65.9 per cent of FSME leavers
• Over twice as many male leavers (13.8 per cent) enter into training than female (5.4 per cent)

Free school meal entitlement (FSME) 2016/17

• Students entitled to free school meals – 102,127 (30.7 per cent)
• Up 1,064 compared with 2015/16
• Uptake level of free school meals – 82.2 per cent
• Free school meals represent 44.2 per cent of all meals provided
• Grammar school FSME – 14.3 per cent
• Non-grammar school FSME – 40.6 per cent
• Special school FSME – 54 per cent

Higher education performance 2015/16

• 7.7 per cent of full-time first degree entrants (2014/15) were no longer in higher education in 2015/16
• 76.7 per cent of full-time degree entrants (2013/14) who took a year out in 2014/15 did not return to higher education in 2015/16
• 84.3 per cent of full-time first degree students entering higher education courses are expected to obtain a degree