HC Deb 16 February 1989 vol 147 cc316-9W
Mr. Nicholas Bennett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Pembroke on 13 February,Official Report, column 5, concerning A-level, O-level and CSE examinations sat and achieved as a percentage of the year group, when the information requested will be available on the same basis as was provided on 11 January 1988, Official Report, columns 42–46.

Mrs. Rumbold

The information given in the table is presented in terms of leavers from maintained schools in England in 1986–87. This is on the same basis as provided to my hon. Friend in theOfficial Report for 11 January 1988, columns 42–46 for the year 1985–86.

Attempting Achieving
Total leavers (000's) CSE O-level A-level 2lower grades 3higher grades A-level passes
Walsall 4.81 79.3 71.0 14.6 79.0 49.4 12.4
Wolverhampton 4.27 84.5 74.4 12.1 81.8 42.2 9.0
Merseyside
Knowsley 2.49 79.9 66.0 7.1 76.3 39.2 4.1
Liverpool 6.80 77.0 68.9 14.4 74.1 39.1 12.3
St. Helens 2.75 84.2 77.4 19.6 78.4 54.3 18.0
Sefton 5.04 82.1 84.4 18.2 78.4 59.1 16.0
Wirral 5.29 80.2 79.9 19.5 79.3 51.6 17.8
Greater Manchester
Bolton 4.56 87.4 83.6 17.2 83.8 56.2 14.7
Bury 2.86 84.4 90.9 18.2 82.1 63.1 16.1
Manchester 6.89 73.6 67.7 15.3 72.1 43.0 13.7
Oldham 3.27 85.9 70.2 10.9 84.6 43.3 8.9
Rochdale 3.30 81.7 80.0 15.2 80.8 49.4 11.0
Salford 3.34 83.9 78.3 15.7 81.6 45.4 12.9
Stockport 4.32 82.9 83.9 19.6 78.0 55.1 17.4
Tameside 3.73 88.4 80.8 12.5 85.6 51.8 9.9
Trafford 2.72 84.5 83.8 19.4 85.4 59.8 18.7
Wigan 5.76 88.2 89.3 15.5 86.3 58.7 14.2
South Yorkshire
Barnsley 3.92 85.4 77.8 10.8 83.2 38.3 10.3
Doncaster 4.75 83.9 80.4 16.0 82.8 46.9 13.1
Rotherham 4.51 82.9 74.8 13.1 84.4 40.7 11.7
Sheffield 8.45 85.4 80.8 13.0 82.8 47.7 11.6
West Yorkshire
Bradford 7.22 84.9 79.7 13.3 80.0 45.6 11.7
Calderdale 2.95 82.9 80.8 16.6 83.4 48.8 12.7
Kirklees 6.00 88.2 84.5 15.7 84.3 47.9 13.7
Leeds 9.99 87.7 80.3 11.6 82.6 46.3 11.2
Wakefield 5.09 88.5 74.4 7.9 84.5 45.6 5.4
Tyne and Wear
Gateshead 3.31 79.4 58.8 13.4 77.8 40.7 11.4
Newcastle upon Tyne 3.23 75.4 63.3 13.5 76.4 39.7 11.0
North Tyneside 2.94 77.4 77.5 20.2 82.9 49.9 17.2
South Tyneside 2.15 91.9 63.7 9.3 91.4 47.8 8.3
Sunder land 5.02 87.0 73.0 10.2 86.6 46.3 8.2
Counties
Avon 12.32 84.9 62.1 17.0 86.5 54.1 14.9
Bedfordshire 7.47 89.7 80.9 18.9 87.7 58.1 16.9
Berkshire 9.59 82.2 65.7 20.5 86.4 57.5 18.8
Buckinghamshire 8.35 70.3 68.1 22.4 79.3 64.3 21.4
Cambridgeshire 8.37 86.8 78.6 15.8 85.1 54.3 14.5
Cheshire 15.24 86.3 85.4 17.9 82.9 55.8 15.5
Cleveland 9.50 85.0 68.8 16.3 81.1 50.3 14.8
Cornwall 7.20 86.0 62.8 16.2 86.3 58.1 14.8
Cumbria 6.99 85.8 74.8 16.9 84.7 54.8 16.0
Derbyshire 14.41 87.6 66.4 12.3 86.0 50.0 11.0
Devon 12.84 86.7 63.9 12.9 88.9 53.8 12.1
Dorset 8.23 80.9 64.6 15.0 86.9 57.7 13.4
Durham 9.34 82.5 67.0 11.9 82.6 51.7 10.2
East Sussex 7.56 80.2 68.0 19.4 82.4 51.6 17.5
Essex 21.52 86.5 75.3 14.8 84.1 55.5 13.2
Gloucestershire 6.83 81.2 64.8 17.0 84.7 56.6 15.5
Hampshire 22.99 86.7 62.8 14.4 88.6 57.9 12.8
Hereford and Worcester 9.28 86.1 81.6 16.9 82.2 56.5 15.6
Hertfordshire 13.68 86.3 80.4 21.1 84.9 61.6 19.3
Humberside 13.78 85.7 73.3 15.4 82.6 48.8 13.5
Isle of Wight 1.64 83.7 50.3 14.3 85.2 47.7 13.6
Kent 21.87 74.6 66.4 17.9 84.0 52.2 16.4
Lancashire 20.59 84.6 79.4 9.2 82.2 51.8 8.3
Leicestershire 12.40 85.0 70.4 20.2 83.4 49.8 17.3
Lincolnshire 8.52 78.6 71.9 17.3 81.9 53.6 16.2
Norfolk 9.91 81.9 68.7 10.5 79.7 50.3 9.7
North Yorkshire 10.06 85.1 81.1 19.5 82.3 57.7 17.3
Northamptonshire 8.74 87.8 70.9 13.2 86.5 47.0 11.8
Northumberland 4.49 87.4 77.3 19.5 86.1 60.7 17.8
Nottinghamshire 15.35 88.0 71.6 13.1 87.4 46.7 11.6
Oxfordshire 7.67 84.3 67.7 18.7 86.7 59.1 16.1
Shropshire 6.84 88.1 84.6 16.3 88.2 54.9 14.3
Somerset 6.03 88.7 62.1 9.4 90.8 51.1 8.1

Attempting Achieving
Total leavers (000's) CSE O-level A-level 2lower grades 3higher grades A-level passes
Staffordshire 15.72 83.5 77.4 14.4 82.4 51 5 13.4
Suffolk 8.62 88.7 77.9 15.2 86.4 50.1 14.0
Surrey 11.78 79.4 82.1 27.4 85.6 62.5 25.6
Warwickshire 6.63 86.6 77.4 20.1 86.9 56.9 17.8
West Sussex 9.40 87.3 71.8 20.9 88.6 62.4 19.6
Wiltshire 7.35 88.8 61.7 11.2 86.2 48.8 9.7
Total England 671.20 83.6 72.4 15.6 83.4 52.0 13.9
Source: School leavers sample survey. Data subject to sampling error.
1 Excludes examination attainments at tertiary colleges or other further education establishments.
2 O level grades D, E, CSE grades 2 to 5.
3 O level grades A to C, CSE grade 1.