To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the proportions of pupils gaining grades A to C in General Certificate of Secondary Education in (i) English, (ii) mathematics and (iii) a modern language in 1990, by rank order of education authority.
Information for 1990 is not yet available. The table gives information for leavers from maintained schools, for each local education authority, aggregated over the three years 1987–89.
Modern foreign languages
| Mathematics
| English
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Local education authority
| rank
| rank
| rank
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| Croydon | 14·3 | (50) | 26·8 | (66) | 39·5 | (41) |
| Ealing | 11·1 | (82) | 27·0 | (62) | 32·1 | (79) |
| Enfield | 18·8 | (16) | 33·3 | (19) | 42·1 | (27) |
| Haringey | 10·8 | (84) | 19·3 | (91) | 29·9 | (89) |
| Harrow | 18·1 | (18) | 41·0 | (3) | 55·2 | (1) |
| Havering | 12·7 | (68) | 29·7 | (46) | 39·3 | (42) |
| Hillingdon | 12·0 | (73) | 31·6 | (32) | 37·8 | (54) |
| Hounslow | 15·7 | (38) | 30·4 | (42) | 40·3 | (39) |
| Kingston upon Thames | 20·8 | (9) | 32·6 | (27) | 50·3 | (5) |
| Merton | 17·6 | (24) | 30·1 | (44) | 38·3 | (50) |
| Newham | 9·0 | (92) | 18·9 | (92) | 29·0 | (91) |
| Redbridge | 13·8 | (54) | 30·1 | (45) | 38·2 | (51) |
| Richmond upon Thames | 23·2 | (6) | 36·0 | (10) | 44·3 | (15) |
| Sutton | 29·1 | (1) | 43·7 | (2) | 50·3 | (6) |
| Waltham Forest | 9·7 | (90) | 16·2 | (95) | 26·2 | (93) |
| Birmingham | 12·2 | (70) | 21·2 | (84) | 32·9 | (77) |
| Coventry | 11·5 | (79) | 25·1 | (72) | 34·8 | (67) |
| Dudley | 16·0 | (35) | 28·0 | (55) | 36·8 | (63) |
| Sandwell | 8·1 | (93) | 16·5 | (94) | 26·1 | (94) |
| Solihull | 20·5 | (10) | 34·6 | (13) | 45·8 | (11) |
| Walsall | 14·0 | (53) | 24·2 | (76) | 34·8 | (68) |
| Wolverhampton | 11·6 | (75) | 20·8 | (86) | 32·5 | (78) |
| Knowsley | 3·9 | (96) | 14·4 | (96) | 18·9 | (96) |
| Liverpool | 10·8 | (83) | 20·6 | (88) | 31·2 | (84) |
| St· Helens | 13·5 | (59) | 26·9 | (64) | 33·1 | (76) |
| Sefton | 16·3 | (34) | 29·4 | (48) | 43·3 | (20) |
| Wirral | 17·1 | (27) | 29·6 | (47) | 40·8 | (38) |
| Bolton | 16·7 | (30) | 33·3 | (18) | 43·0 | (23) |
| Bury | 14·4 | (49) | 35·3 | (12) | 43·1 | (22) |
| Manchester | 9·9 | (89) | 20·1 | (89) | 28·3 | (92) |
| Oldham | 13·3 | (64) | 22·2 | (82) | 29·0 | (90) |
| Rochdale | 10·5 | (85) | 25·1 | (73) | 34·7 | (69) |
| Salford | 12·2 | (72) | 24·7 | (75) | 37·7 | (56) |
| Stockport | 16·9 | (29) | 33·1 | (24) | 46·9 | (8) |
| Tameside | 14·4 | (48) | 30·7 | (39) | 41·1 | (34) |
| Trafford | 26·1 | (3) | 35·8 | (11) | 44·1 | (16) |
| Wigan | 19·2 | (15) | 33·1 | (23) | 40·9 | (36) |
| Barnsley | 10·3 | (86) | 23·3 | (77) | 30·5 | (87) |
| Doncaster | 11·2 | (80) | 26·8 | (65) | 31·7 | (81) |
| Rotherham | 14·7 | (45) | 25·7 | (70) | 34·4 | (70) |
| Sheffield | 13·7 | (57) | 25·0 | (74) | 37·6 | (57) |
| Bradford | 13·4 | (61) | 20·8 | (85) | 31·3 | (83) |
| Calderdale | 13·2 | (65) | 22·8 | (78) | 34·2 | (71) |
| Kirklees | 17·6 | (25) | 27·2 | (60) | 37·8 | (53) |
| Leeds | 14·5 | (46) | 25·2 | (71) | 34·0 | (75) |
| Wakefield | 11·5 | (78) | 22·3 | (81) | 31·3 | (82) |
| Gateshead | 10·1 | (78) | 22·1 | (83) | 30·4 | (88) |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 12·2 | (69) | 20·7 | (87) | 31·8 | (80) |
| North Tyneside | 13·7 | (56) | 28·0 | (54) | 39·7 | (40) |
| South Tyneside | 12·9 | (67) | 27·9 | (57) | 34·2 | (72) |
| Sunderland | 9·7 | (91) | 22·4 | (79) | 31·0 | (85) |
| Inner London Education Authority | 10·1 | (88) | 20·1 | (90) | 30·8 | (86) |
| Avon | 15·6 | (39) | 30·2 | (43) | 42·1 | (26) |
| Befordshire | 14·2 | (51) | 27·9 | (56) | 39·0 | (45) |
| Berkshire | 21·3 | (7) | 36·3 | (9) | 44·4 | (14) |
| Buckinghamshire | 26·8 | (2) | 39·1 | (5) | 49·2 | (7) |
| Cambridgeshire | 20·2 | (12) | 30·8 | (37) | 41·2 | (33) |
| Cheshire | 17·8 | (21) | 30·6 | (40) | 41·6 | (30) |
| Cleveland | 13·6 | (58) | 29·2 | (51) | 36·5 | (65) |
| Cornwall1 | 14·2 | (52) | 33·1 | (21) | 45·7 | (13) |
| Cumbria | 15·3 | (41) | 32·5 | (29) | 36·9 | (62) |
| Derbyshire | 13·4 | (62) | 28·8 | (52) | 36·9 | (60) |
| Devon | 13·3 | (63) | 29·3 | (49) | 39·2 | (43) |
| Dorset | 17·8 | (22) | 31·5 | (33) | 42·2 | (25) |
| Durham | 11·2 | (81) | 26·0 | (69) | 35·7 | (66) |
| East Sussex | 15·9 | (36) | 33·5 | (17) | 45·7 | (12) |
| Essex | 17·4 | (26) | 34·2 | (14) | 41·6 | (28) |
| Gloucestershire | 19·8 | (13) | 32·7 | (26) | 43·9 | (17) |
| Hampshire | 16·4 | (32) | 34·1 | (15) | 41·6 | (29) |
| Hereford and Worcester | 16·7 | (31) | 30·8 | (36) | 42·4 | (24) |
| Hertfordshire | 21·3 | (8) | 36·9 | (7) | 46·8 | (9) |
| Humberside | 13·8 | (55) | 26·7 | (67) | 34·1 | (73) |
| Isle of Wight | 7·2 | (94) | 22·3 | (80) | 34·0 | (74) |
| Kent | 18·0 | (20) | 32·5 | (30) | 41·0 | (35) |
| Lancashire | 15·9 | (37) | 30·5 | (41) | 38·3 | (49) |
| Leicestershire | 11·5 | (77) | 29·2 | (50) | 38·6 | (47) |
| Lincolnshire | 16·9 | (28) | 31·4 | (34) | 38·1 | (52) |
Modern foreign languages
| Mathematics
| English
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Local education authority
| rank
| rank
| rank
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| Norfolk | 13·4 | (60) | 32·5 | (28) | 37·8 | (55) |
| North Yorkshire | 23·8 | (5) | 36·6 | (8) | 45·9 | (10) |
| Northamptonshire | 11·6 | (76) | 26·5 | (68) | 36·9 | (61) |
| Northumberland | 15·1 | (42) | 32·8 | (25) | 41·6 | (31) |
| Nottinghamshire | 12·2 | (71) | 27·1 | (61) | 36·5 | (64) |
| Oxfordshire | 16·4 | (33) | 31·8 | (31) | 40·8 | (37) |
| Shropshire | 17·7 | (23) | 31·1 | (35) | 43·3 | (21) |
| Somerset | 15·5 | (40) | 30·7 | (38) | 38·5 | (48) |
| Staffordshire | 13·2 | (66) | 272 | (59) | 37·0 | (59) |
| Suffolk | 11·9 | (74) | 27·7 | (58) | 37·0 | (58) |
| Surrey | 19·8 | (14) | 39·6 | (4) | 52·9 | (2) |
| Warwickshire | 18·4 | (17) | 33·2 | (20) | 43·6 | (19) |
| West Sussex | 20·3 | (11) | 38·1 | (6) | 50·5 | (3) |
| Wiltshire | 14·8 | (43) | 28·7 | (53) | 38·7 | (46) |
| ENGLAND | 15·3 | 29·4 | 38·9 | |||
1 Includes the Isles of Scilly. | ||||||