General Certificate of Secondary Education: Standards

Mr. Gibb
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what percentage of (a) 15 year olds and (b) pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 achieved five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C including (i) English, mathematics and science and (ii) English, mathematics, science and a modern foreign language in (A) 2006-07 and (B) 2005-06.

Jim Knight
I refer the hon. Member to the response I gave him on 29 October 2007.

Michael Gove
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils gained three GCSEs or fewer at D grade or below in 2007.

Jim Knight
The information is provided as follows.

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|                                                                         |Number|
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|Number of pupils achieving one GCSE grade D-G and no grades C or above   |9,881 |
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|Number of pupils achieving two GCSEs grade D-G and no grades C or above  |13,977|
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|Number of pupils achieving three GCSEs grade D-G and no grades C or above|19,611|
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28,114 pupils achieved no GCSEs.

The figures relate to pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 in 2006/07.

Michael Gove
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of pupils in each constituency gained five GCSE A* to C grades in subjects including English, mathematics, science and at least one modern language in the last period for which figures are available.

Jim Knight
The information requested is not available and requires significant data development and recalculations to create, which would be at a disproportionate cost.

Michael Gove
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils in receipt of free school meals did not gain a single grade C or higher at GCSE in the last year for which figures are available.

Jim Knight
The information is not readily available and can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Michael Gove
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families in how many mainstream maintained schools one or more pupils gained no passes at GCSE in the last period for which figures are available.

Jim Knight
In 2006/07, the number of mainstream maintained schools in which one or more pupils gained no passes at GCSE (or equivalent) was 2,031. This is 66.7 per cent. of all mainstreamed maintained schools.