To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what results each local authority-supported school in (a) Newcastle, (b) North Tyneside constituency and (c) Northumberland achieved against each of the new criteria included in the National Challenge in each of the last five years for which figures are available; what percentage of children at each school has been eligible for free school meals in each such year; and where each school ranked on such criteria among all local authority-supported schools in England in each such year. (273187)

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what results each local authority-supported school in (a) Merseyside and (b) Crosby constituency achieved against the National Challenge criteria in each of the last five years for which figures are available; what percentage of children at each such school was eligible for free school meals in each such year; and where each such school ranked on these criteria among all local authority-supported schools in England in each such year. (273612)

The current National Challenge set to each maintained mainstream schools is for more than 30 per cent. of their Key Stage 4 cohort to achieve five or more GCSEs at A*-C or the equivalent including the subjects of English and mathematics.

At school level, this indicator is only available for 2006 and onwards while data on the proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals are available for all of the requested years.

The available data for each of the requested schools have been placed in the House Libraries and those schools in the requested constituencies are compiled as follows.