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Secondary Education: Standards

Volume 469: debated on Tuesday 11 December 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils at Key Stage 4 gained (a) no qualifications and (b) no GCSEs in 2007. (169141)

The available information is published in table 1 and table 8 of the Statistical First Release “GCSE and equivalent results in England 2006/07 (provisional)” which is available at:

http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000754/index.shtml.

The percentage of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 who gained no qualifications was 0.9 per cent.

The percentage of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 who did not gain at least a grade G in any GCSE subject was 3 per cent.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of the total number of pupils at Key Stage 4 who gained no qualifications in the latest period for which figures are available were eligible for free school meals. (169144)

The available information is published in table 8 of the Statistical First Release “National Curriculum Assessment, GCSE and Equivalent Attainment and Post-16 Attainment by Pupil Characteristics, in England 2006/07” which is available at:

http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000759/index.shtml.

The percentage of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 who were eligible for free school meals who achieved no qualifications (i.e. did not achieve the equivalent of a grade G at GCSE in any subject in 2006/07) was 5.4 per cent., with 94.6 per cent. achieving the equivalent of at least one pass. The corresponding percentage of pupils who were not eligible for free school meals was 1.9 per cent., with 98.1 per cent. achieving the equivalent of at least one pass.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many maintained mainstream schools there were in which pupils at Key Stage 4 achieved no qualifications in the latest period for which figures are available. (169145)

2007 data are not yet published. The data will be published in January and then placed in the House of Commons Library where the data for previous years can already be found.