To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which secondary schools are in each decile of the numbers of students achieving five GCSEs at grades A* to C including English and mathematics in the latest period for which figures are available. (301635)

The request is essentially for a list of all English secondary schools ordered into deciles. The main way school level information is published is in the secondary school achievement and attainment tables on the Department’s website at the following link:

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/performancetables/schools_08.shtml

A user-friendly Excel version of school level data, from which rankings and deciles of all schools can be derived, has also been placed in the House of Commons Library.

The 2009 secondary school achievement and attainment tables will be published in January 2010.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of 16-year-olds did not achieve five GCSEs at grades A* to C in (a) England, (b) the North East and (c) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in the latest period for which figures are available. (303141)

The following table gives the percentage of pupils, in their last year of compulsory education who did not gain five or more GCSEs at A*-C and equivalent.