To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list, by county education authority in England, in rank order, the percentage of all pupils gaining a higher grade GCSE pass A to C in (a) a modern European language, (b) mathematics and (c) English, in 1989.
Information for 1989 is not yet available. The table gives information for school leavers, for county and metropolitan local education authorities, aggregated over the three years 1986–88 to reduce sampling error.
Percentage of all leavers with grades A-C at GCSE/'O' level/CSE
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Local education authority
| Modern foreign language
| Rank
| Mathematics
| Rank
| English
| Rank
|
| Wolverhampton | 10·9 | (72) | 19·8 | (85) | 29·7 | (84) |
| Knowsley | 3·7 | (96) | 15·8 | (95) | 20·5 | (96) |
| Liverpool | 10·5 | (76) | 20·1 | (83) | 30·0 | (82) |
| St. Helens | 14·0 | (40) | 29·5 | (41) | 33·2 | (71) |
| Sefton | 14·5 | (36) | 27·9 | (52) | 42·6 | (19) |
| Wirral | 15·3 | (30) | 28·8 | (45) | 39·8 | (34) |
| Bolton | 15·5 | (28) | 30·6 | (30) | 40·7 | (28) |
| Bury | 13·1 | (50) | 35·9 | (7) | 42·8 | (17) |
| Manchester | 9·3 | (86) | 19·7 | (88) | 27·1 | (91) |
| Oldham | 10·9 | (73) | 20·7 | (81) | 25·7 | (92) |
| Rochdale | 10·0 | (80) | 23·6 | (74) | 35·5 | (56) |
| Salford | 11·2 | (71) | 25·3 | (67) | 34·6 | (62) |
| Stockport | 13·7 | (45) | 31·2 | (25) | 44·4 | (11) |
| Tameside | 13·0 | (51) | 29·6 | (40) | 39·6 | (36) |
| Trafford | 24·2 | (3) | 36·4 | (6) | 45·5 | (9) |
| Wigan | 18·1 | (16) | 34·2 | (12) | 42·0 | (22) |
| Barnsley | 8·1 | (90) | 19·9 | (84) | 28·4 | (88) |
| Doncaster | 9·7 | (82) | 25·6 | (65) | 29·5 | (86) |
| Rotherham | 12·7 | (58) | 23·8 | (73) | 30·7 | (77) |
| Sheffield | 12·6 | (61) | 25·2 | (68) | 35·4 | (58) |
| Bradford | 11·8 | (64) | 19·8 | (86) | 29·6 | (85) |
| Calderdale | 12·2 | (62) | 22·0 | (77) | 33·9 | (67) |
| Kirklees | 16·3 | (25) | 27·3 | (56) | 36·1 | (52) |
| Leeds | 13·4 | (49) | 25·8 | (64) | 34·1 | (65) |
| Wakefield | 10·5 | (77) | 24·4 | (71) | 29·8 | (83) |
| Gateshead | 8·3 | (89) | 21·3 | (79) | 28·3 | (89) |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 10·3 | (78) | 17·5 | (93) | 28·0 | (90) |
| North Tyneside | 12·0 | (63) | 26·8 | (59) | 35·9 | (53) |
| South Tyneside | 8·8 | (88) | 23·3 | (75) | 30·6 | (78) |
| Sunderland | 7·8 | (92) | 19·7 | (87) | 30·0 | (81) |
| Inner London | 9·7 | (83) | 20·5 | (82) | 30·1 | (80) |
| Avon | 13·7 | (43) | 28·5 | (49) | 40·1 | (33) |
| Bedfordshire | 13·9 | (41) | 28·8 | (46) | 38·9 | (40) |
| Berkshire | 19·7 | (9) | 33·3 | (14) | 41·0 | (25) |
| Buckinghamshire | 23·5 | (4) | 37·3 | (5) | 47·8 | (5) |
| Cambridgeshire | 17·6 | (17) | 29·4 | (43) | 40·1 | (31) |
| Cheshire | 16·3 | (24) | 30·9 | (29) | 40·6 | (29) |
| Cleveland | 12·9 | (54) | 30·1 | (34) | 35·2 | (59) |
| Cornwall1 | 13·5 | (48) | 31·3 | (24) | 43·2 | (16) |
| Cumbria | 13·6 | (47) | 32·3 | (19) | 37·6 | (45) |
| Derbyshire | 11·5 | (67) | 27·9 | (51) | 34·1 | (64) |
| Devon | 12·7 | (57) | 27·9 | (53) | 38·9 | (39) |
| Dorset | 16·5 | (23) | 31·2 | (26) | 43·9 | (14) |
| Durham | 10·1 | (79) | 24·7 | (69) | 33·4 | (70) |
| East Sussex | 13·8 | (42) | 29·4 | (44) | 41·7 | (23) |
| Essex | 16·2 | (26) | 32·3 | (20) | 40·2 | (30) |
| Gloucestershire | 18·4 | (14) | 31·3 | (23) | 43·5 | (15) |
| Hampshire | 15·2 | (31) | 32·5 | (18) | 41·0 | (24) |
| Hereford and Worcester | 15·4 | (29) | 29·9 | (39) | 42·0 | (21) |
| Hertfordshire | 19·5 | (10) | 34·9 | (11) | 45·3 | (10) |
| Humberside | 12·9 | (52) | 25·9 | (63) | 34·1 | (66) |
| Isle of Wight | 6·2 | (94) | 19·4 | (90) | 31·5 | (76) |
| Kent | 17·3 | (18) | 31·6 | (22) | 39·4 | (37) |
| Lancashire | 15·2 | (33) | 30·2 | (33) | 38·3 | (43) |
| Leicestershire | 9·4 | (85) | 27·6 | (54) | 35·5 | (55) |
| Lincolnshire | 16·2 | (27) | 30·5 | (31) | 37·6 | (46) |
| Norfolk | 12·7 | (59) | 30·0 | (36) | 35·8 | (54) |
| North Yorkshire | 22·5 | (5) | 35·2 | (8) | 44·0 | (13) |
| Northamptonshire | 10·8 | (74) | 26·2 | (62) | 36·1 | (51) |
| Northumberland | 15·0 | (34) | 31·8 | (21) | 42·3 | (20) |
| Nottinghamshire | 10·7 | (75) | 25·5 | (66) | 32·9 | (72) |
| Oxfordshire | 14·5 | (37) | 30·2 | (32) | 38·9 | (38) |
| Shropshire | 16·6 | (20) | 29·5 | (42) | 39·6 | (35) |
| Somerset | 13·7 | (46) | 27·4 | (55) | 37·3 | (48) |
| Staffordshire | 12·6 | (60) | 26·5 | (61) | 34·8 | (61) |
| Suffolk | 11·4 | (69) | 26·5 | (60) | 37·9 | (44) |
| Surrey | 19·3 | (11) | 39·1 | (4) | 51·4 | (3) |
| Warwickshire | 16·7 | (19) | 31·2 | (28) | 40·7 | (27) |
| West Sussex | 18·9 | (13) | 35·1 | (9) | 47·4 | (6) |
| Wiltshire | 13·7 | (44) | 27·2 | (57) | 36·9 | (50) |
| Total England | 14·1 | — | 28·4 | — | 37·5 | — |
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in rank order the percentage of all pupils gaining five or more higher grades A to C at GCSE in 1989, by county education authority in England.
Information for 1989 is not yet available. For the latest available information I refer my hon. Friend to the reply that I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Pembroke (Mr. Nicholas Bennett) on 18 January 1990, Official Report, column 333·