§ Mr. OppenheimTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what percentage of school leavers in each education authority achieved five or more GCSE passes or equivalent qualifications, in the latest year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. Butcher[holding answer 14 March 1989]: The information is given in the table. The figures relating to examination results are derived from a 10 per cent. sample of school leavers from each school. Sampling error is a major consideration where information for individual local education authorities is concerned. To help mitigate the effects of sampling error, the figures are presented in the form of a three-year aggregate covering the academic years 1984–85, 1985–86 and 1986–87.
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School leavers from maintained secondary schools: aggregation for the academic years 1984–85, 1985–86 and 1986–87 Numbers (thous-ands) Percentage achieving 5 + graded results at GCE O-level/CSE Local education authorities: Barking 6.68 52.99 Barnet 10.35 81.55 Bexley 10.40 76.54 Brent 8.68 68.55 Bromley 10.27 77.22 Croydon 12.88 73.76 Ealing 9.77 67.14 Enfield 10.40 68.94 Haringey 6.05 65.12 Harrow 6.01 82.86 Havering 11.03 72.26 Hillingdon 8.81 77.98 Hounslow 8.31 66.43 Kingston upon Thames 4.65 76.77 Merton 6.13 70.80 Newham 9.08 57.27 Redbridge 8.29 65.14 Richmond upon Thames 4.39 77.45 Sutton 6.22 81.99 Waltham Forest 7.19 53.41 Inner London 73.43 58.68 Birmingham 48.88 66.67 Coventry 14.27 69.80 Dudley 14.52 75.96 Sandwell 14.54 61.35 Solihull 10.82 83.27 Walsall 14.87 70.07 Wolverhampton 12.90 63.72 Knowsley 7.98 50.25 Liverpool 21.10 53.51 St. Helens 8.87 68.43 Sefton 13.77 69.72 Wirral 15.47 70.72 Bolton 12.93 74.40 Bury 8.09 75.28 Manchester 22.23 51.15 Oldham 9.78 64.93 Rochdale 9.38 65.25 Salford 11.03 62.65 Stockport 12.82 70.67 Tameside 11.56 70.42 Trafford 8.63 73.93 Wigan 17.29 74.67 Barnsley 11.28 62.85 Doncaster 13.50 67.04 Rotherham 13.54 68.46 Sheffield 25.64 72.19 Bradford 22.22 57.56 Calderdale 9.01 63.15 Kirklees 18.26 70.04
Numbers (thous-ands) Percentage achieving 5 + graded results at GCE O-level/CSE Leeds 30.57 69.55 Wakefield 16.09 65.94 Gateshead 9.35 66.42 Newcastle upon Tyne 10.32 63.18 North Tyneside 8.85 75.82 South Tyneside 7.14 76.33 Sunderland 14.82 72.81 Avon 37.28 76.77 Bedfordshire 22.42 76.70 Berkshire 29.00 82.76 Buckinghamshire 24.90 81.57 Cambridgeshire 24.31 74.04 Cheshire 44.91 75.46 Cleveland 29.60 73.01 Cornwall 20.70 77.39 Cumbria 21.55 74.71 Derbyshire 43.65 77.25 Devon 38.27 73.53 Dorset 25.27 82.43 Durham 27.86 72.83 East Sussex 22.63 74.68 Essex 66.24 71.56 Gloucestershire 21.82 78.51 Hampshire 66.78 82.73 Hereford and Worcester 27.54 78.36 Hertfordshire 43.45 76.16 Humberside 41 81 71.27 Isle of Wight 4.93 78.09 Kent 65.93 77.54 Lancashire 62.58 69.45 Leicestershire 38.28 73.51 Lincolnshire 24.93 77.10 Norfolk 31.34 63.59 North Yorkshire 29.25 79.18 Northamptonshire 26.16 77.45 Northumberland 12.90 80.08 Nottinghamshire 46.85 74.34 Oxfordshire 22.94 81.17 Shropshire 19.32 79.30 Somerset 17.79 73.86 Staffordshire 48.29 76.99 Suffolk 25.80 70.16 Surrey 37.43 83.44 Warwickshire 21.04 81.56 West Sussex 27.20 84.67 Wiltshire 21.43 73.45