General Certificate of Secondary Education: Nottingham

Mr. Allen
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of children in Nottingham left school with five A*-C grade GCSEs in (a) 1997 and (b) 2007.

Jim Knight
The available information is given in the following table.

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|                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |1997|11998|2007|
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|England2                                                                                                                                                                                                               |45.1|46.3 |60.8|
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|Nottinghamshire Local Authority (1997)                                                                                                                                                                                 |37.6|n/a  |n/a |
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|Nottingham City Local Authority (1998-)                                                                                                                                                                                |n/a |26.2 |53.2|
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|Nottinghamshire Local Authority (1998-)                                                                                                                                                                                |n/a |42.3 |54.6|
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|n/a = not available1 Due to local government reorganisations, figures have also been given for 1998 to allow comparisons to be made to the latest year.2 includes all schools, not only those in the maintained sector.|    |     |    |
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Figures are published annually in the Statistical First Release (SFR) ‘GCSE and Equivalent Examination Results in England’. The latest figures, for 2007, are available at:

http://www.dfes.qov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000768/index. shtml.