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Literacy: Greater London

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 20 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 29 January 2008, Official Report, columns 267-71W, on literacy: Greater London, what the number of children in each borough is from which the percentages for 2007 in table 3 are derived. (185763)

The following table shows, for each London borough, the number of children included in the calculation of those achieving five or more A*-C GCSE (and equivalent) including GCSE English and mathematics.

2007: numbers and percentages of 15-year-olds attaining five or more GCSEs, including English and mathematics, at grades C and above for each London authority.

Local authority name

Number of 15-year-old pupils

Percentage 5 +A*-C including English and mathematics

Barking and Dagenham

2,097

39.2

Barnet

3,285

59.3

Bexley

3,290

49.7

Brent

2,654

49.5

Bromley

3,484

55.3

Camden

1,444

45.1

City of London

Croydon

3,803

44.1

Ealing

2,631

49.0

Enfield

3,729

47.4

Greenwich

2,477

33.9

Hackney

1,323

41.3

Hammersmith and Fulham

1,078

57.8

Haringey

2,066

37.1

Harrow

2,209

56.0

Havering

3,072

53.6

Hillingdon

3,048

44.4

Hounslow

2,639

50.2

Islington

1,479

37.0

Kensington and Chelsea

606

56.4

Kingston upon Thames

1,497

61.3

Lambeth

1,423

41.1

Lewisham

2,255

40.4

Merton

1,611

39.7

Newham

3,316

44.1

Redbridge

3,279

61.2

Richmond upon Thames

1,460

47.7

Southwark

2,282

38.3

Sutton

2,572

64.7

Tower Hamlets

2,527

36.3

Waltham Forest

2,595

42.0

Wandsworth

1,793

46.6

Westminster

1,371

45.6

Note: The number of 15-year-olds relates to those on roll at the start of the academic year.