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Special Educational Needs

Volume 489: debated on Thursday 19 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many and what percentage of pupils with (a) a statement of special educational needs and (b) unstatemented special educational needs who attended maintained special schools achieved five A* to G grades at GCSE in each year since 2003; (253441)

(2) how many and what percentage of pupils with (a) a statement of special educational needs and (b) unstatemented special educational needs who attended maintained special schools achieved (i) five A* to C grades in all subjects, (ii) five A* to C grades including English and mathematics and (iii) five A* to G grades at GCSE in each year since 2003.

Figures are available for the years 2006 to 2008 only, and are provided in the following table:

Number and percentage of pupils who attend maintained special schools achieving GCSE and equivalents

2006

2007

2008

No.

%

No.

%

No.

%

Children with a statement of special educational needs

5+ A* to C

39

0.4

47

0.5

52

0.5

5+ A* to C including English and maths

17

0.2

21

0.2

30

0.3

5+ A* to G

500

5.2

638

6.6

679

7.0

Children with special educational needs but without a statement

5+ A* to C

1

1

0

0

0

0

5+ A* to C including English and maths

1

1

0

0

0

0

5+ A* to G

7

11.1

7

11.5

11

14.7

1 Less than 5.

Notes:

1. Children with SEN but without a statement can only go to special schools in prescribed circumstances, for example for the purposes of an assessment of their SEN. The numbers of such children are very small and so the data for their results should be treated with caution.

2. Pupils at the end of Key Stage 4.

3. Figures are based on final data in 2006-07 and revised data in 2008.