§ 69. Mr. SedgemoreTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the percentage of girls who received five or more O-levels, by local education authority, at the latest date available.
§ Mr. DunnThe proportion of girls leaving local authority maintained schools with five or more higher grades at O-level or CSE are shown in the table.
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Girl leavers from maintained schools percentage achieving five or more higher grades1 at GCE O level or CSE data averaged over the academic years 1983–84, 1984–85 and 1985–86 Percentage Barking 9.4 Barnet 42.0 Bexley 26.3 Brent 19.1 Bromley 31.1 Croydon 25.0 Ealing 19.8 Enfield 25.7 Haringey 18.9 Harrow 39.7 Havering 24.6 Hillingdon 27.7 Hounslow 20.2 Kingston-upon-Thames 38.6 Merton 25.0 Newham 12.2 Redbridge 26.1 Richmond-upon-Thames 27.2 Sutton 35.2 Waltham Forest 14.4 ILEA 17.6 Birmingham 19.3 Coventry 21.6 Dudley 23.7 Sandwell 14.9 Solihull 29.4 Walsall 19.0 Wolverhampton 17.6 Knowsley 11.0 Liverpool 19.3 St. Helens 23.1 Sefton 25.2 Wirral 25.0 Bolton 28.6 Bury 27.6 Manchester 18.6 Oldham 19.9 Rochdale 20.2 Salford 17.6 Stockport 25.5 Tameside 25.4 Trafford 34.5 Wigan 26.8 Barnsley 17.0 Doncaster 19.0 Rotherham 19.4 Sheffield 19.8 Bradford 16.8 Calderdale 22.2 Kirklees 26.2 Leeds 23.0 Wakefield 16.2 Gateshead 17.3
Percentage Newcastle-upon-Tyne 17.2 North Tyneside 23.1 South Tyneside 21.1 Sunderland 21.5 Avon 25.4 Bedfordshire 27.5 Berkshire 27.8 Buckinghamshire 32.9 Cambridgeshire 27.1 Cheshire 28.1 Cleveland 26.5 Cornwall 26.7 Cumbria 25.0 Derbyshire 23.2 Devon 24.4 Dorset 29.7 Durham 20.2 East Sussex 28.0 Essex 26.5 Gloucestershire 29.3 Hampshire 27.0 Hereford and Worcester 28.8 Hertfordshire 31.8 Humberside 20.8 Isle of Wight 19.3 Kent 28.3 Lancashire 25.8 Leicestershire 23.3 Lincolnshire 25.1 Norfolk 24.1 North Yorkshire 34.2 Northamptonshire 20.6 Northumberland 31.3 Nottinghamshire 19.8 Oxfordshire 28.2 Shropshire 29.6 Somerset 24.1 Staffordshire 24.6 Suffolk 22.4 Surrey 35.3 Warwickshire 27.7 West Sussex 32.9 Wiltshire 24.3 Total England 24.7 1 Higher grades defined as O-level grades A to C and CSE grade 1. Source: School leavers Survey—data subject to sampling error.