HC Deb 26 June 1996 vol 280 c160W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the maintained secondary schools and their respective local education authorities in which the number of pupils who gained five GCSEs was 10 per cent. or less in each year since 1990; if she will list the totals in each case and as a percentage of secondary schools in the maintained sector; how many of these schools have been designated failing schools through Ofsted inspection; and if she will make a statement. [34493]

Mr. Robin Squire

There are no maintained secondary schools, apart from special maintained schools, in which the number of pupils who gained five GCSEs was 10 per cent. or less in each year since 1992.