§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide a ranking by region of the percentage of female school leavers leaving school with five or more standard grades—levels 1 to 3.
§ Lord James Douglas-Hamilton[holding answer 8 March 1994]: The available information is set out in the following table. Many pupils who left from the 1991–92 session would have sat their fourth year examinations in 1991 or 1990, before the standard grade fully superseded ordinary grade. O-grade qualifications have therefore also been included in the analysis.
Female school leavers from the 1991–92 session with 5 or more O/S Grades (1–3) Number As Percentage of all female leavers SCOTLAND 29,820 45.5 1 Shetland 123 65.9 2 Orkney 126 62.7 3 Borders 566 54.2 4 Dumfries and Galloway 881 52.1 5 Highland 1,245 51.0 6 Central 1,684 50.3 7 Tayside 2,394 49.5 8 Grampian 3,110 47.7 9 Western Isles 230 47.4 10 Fife 2,094 46.4 11 Lothian 4,149 44.5 12 Strathclyde 13,218 42.1