The Department does not hold information on the courses offered by schools. However, information on the courses entered by students is available.
69 schools1 entered students for an International Baccalaureate (IB) during the 2008/09 academic year. A further 22 FE colleges had IB candidates in 2008/09.
1 Maintained and independent schools.
As collected in the 2009 autumn school census, 1,679 students were studying International Baccalaureate courses, of these 5.3 per cent. were eligible to receive free school meals (89 students).