HC Deb 19 October 1992 vol 212 cc15-21W
Mrs. Gorman

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will publish a list of local education authorities in England in rank order by the percentage of pupils achieving five higher grade GCSEs in the last year for which information is available, showing in each case(a) that percentage and (b) the rank order position and percentage for each of the previous four years.

Mr. Forth

The attached table gives details of the estimated percentage of school leavers achieving five or more GCSE/O/CSE grades A-C in rank order. The latest available data based on a 10 per cent. sample of school leavers aggregated over three years—1988–89 to 1990–91—in order to reduce sampling errors. The aggregated figures for the earlier years are also shown.

1988–89 to 1990–91 1987–88 to 1989–90 1986–87 to 1988–89 1985–86 to 1987–88
Per cent Rank Per cent Rank Per cent Rank Per cent Rank
Calderdale 30.6 52 27.8 51 21.5 75 20.0 70
Northamptonshire 30.3 53 27.8 51 22.8 64 21.7 61
Isle of Wight 30.2 54 28.1 50 19.5 83 17.1 86
Lincolnshire 29.9 55 26.6 60 25.2 49 25.2 41
Cleveland 29.6 56 27.3 54 26.5 43 27.1 26
Bedfordshire 29.3 57 27.3 54 24.9 52 26.0 36
Dudley 29.1 58 28.9 43 25.5 47 22.3 59
Derbyshire 29.1 58 26.9 57 24.6 54 22.4 58
South Tyneside 28.2 60 26.8 59 22.2 68 18.3 79
Durham 28.1 61 26.3 63 23.4 59 21.0 66
Hounslow 28.0 62 25.2 67 25.2 49 21.5 63
Suffolk 27.6 63 26.6 60 24.2 58 22.7 55
Redbndge 27.5 64 25.3 66 25.5 47 26.6 28
Sheffield 27.3 65 25.9 64 22.2 68 20.1 69
Bury 26.8 66 23.1 76 27.7 33 26.4 31
Walsall 26.7 67 25.5 65 23.4 59 20.9 67
Brent 26.6 68 23.3 75 20.6 78 19.1 75
Newcastle upon Tyne 26.5 69 22.3 80 21.6 74 17.4 84
Leeds 26.4 70 24.3 71 22.0 71 21.3 65
Sunderland 26.1 71 24.1 72 21.8 72 18.7 77
Nottinghamshire 26.1 71 24.7 69 23.4 59 21.6 62
Croydon 25.9 73 22.9 77 22.1 70 22.7 55
Barnsley 25.8 74 26.9 57 19.7 82 16.9 87
Rochdale 25.7 75 24.5 70 20.9 77 18.7 77
Salford 25.3 76 24.9 68 23.2 62 21.8 60
Doncaster 25.3 76 23.6 73 21.7 73 18.7 76
Gateshead 25.2 78 20.7 85 20.4 80 19.8 72
Ealing 24.9 79 21.5 82 22.5 67 19.2 74
Wakefield 24.5 80 20.3 87 17.5 87 17.6 83
Manchester 24.4 81 20.2 88 16.4 90 15.9 90
Coventry 24.0 82 21.3 83 21.2 76 20.7 68
Humberside 23.1 83 23.4 74 22.6 66 21.5 63
Birmingham 22.7 84 22.7 79 19.1 85 18.3 79
Oldham 22.2 85 21.7 81 18.1 86 15.5 91
Wolverhampton 21.8 86 21.2 84 19.9 81 17.8 82
St Helens 21.1 87 22.9 77 20.5 79 23.2 54
Hanngey 20.9 88 19.8 89 16.6 89 17.3 85
Wdltham Forest 20.9 88 17.7 91 12.7 94 11.3 95
Liverpool 19.7 90 20.7 85 19.4 84 17.9 81
Bradford 19.1 91 17.8 90 16.9 88 16.0 89
Sandwell 19.0 92 17.4 92 15.5 92 14.6 92
Inner London Boroughs' 18.6 93 17.4 92 15.9 91 16.1 88
Knowsley 16.6 94 11.6 96 8.5 96 10.0 96
Newham 14.5 95 14.3 94 14.9 93 14.3 93
Barking and Dagenham 12.4 96 13.6 95 11.3 95 11.8 94
Total 30.9 28.6 25.8 24.4

Mrs. Gorman

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will publish a list of local education authorities in England in rank order by the percentage of pupils achieving three A levels in the last year for which information is available, showing in each case(a) that percentage and (b) the rank order position and percentage for each of the previous four years.

School leavers statistical file 1990–91 revised 3 July 1992 Maintained schools only
Percentage of school leavers with three or more A/AS level passes
1988–89 to 1990–91 1987–88 to 1989–90 1986–87 to 1988–89 1985–86 to 1987–88
Per cent. Rank Per cent. Rank Per cent. Rank Per cent. Rank
Buckinghamshire 21.8 1 18.5 1 15.6 2 13.5 3
Barnet 21.3 2 18.1 2 18.0 1 17.7 1
North Yorkshire 18.6 3 16.9 3 13.8 3 12.9 4
Sutton 18.3 4 13.3 11 13.8 4 14.4 2
Stockport 16.7 5 14.0 8 12.4 8 10.5 17
Wirral 16.5 6 15.2 4 12.8 6 11.1 11
Cheshire 16.4 7 14.2 6 11.6 15 11.2 10
Northumberland 16.2 8 14.7 5 12.5 7 11.4 9
Kingston upon Thames 16.1 9 12.3 17 11.6 15 10.7 14
Cambridgeshire 15.6 10 13.0 13 10.3 21 7.9 41
Hertfordshire 15.4 11 13.7 9 11.8 13 9.9 19
Solihull 15.2 12 12.0 20 11.7 14 11.7 7
Enfield 14.7 13 12.3 17 10.1 24 8.9 29

Mr. Forman

The attached table gives details of the estimated percentage of school leavers achieving three or more A/AS level passes in rank order. The latest available data are based on a 10 per cent sample of school leavers aggregated over three years (1988–89 to 1990–91) in order to reduce sampling errors. The aggregated figures for the earlier years are also shown.

1988–89 to 1990–91 1987–88 to 1989–90 1986–87 to 1988–89 1985–86 to 1987–88
Per cent. Rank Per cent. Rank Per cent. Rank Per cent. Rank
Trafford 14.7 13 12.4 15 12.4 8 12.3 5
Berkshire 14.6 15 14.2 6 12.9 5 11.5 8
Warwickshire 14.5 16 13.0 13 11.9 11 10.6 16
West Sussex 14.3 17 12.4 15 10.6 18 9.5 21
Sefton 13.6 18 12.3 17 10.4 20 11.0 13
Gloucestershire 13.6 18 12.0 20 10.6 18 9.3 25
Cumbria 13.3 20 11.7 23 11.0 17 10.1 18
Surrey 13.3 20 13.1 12 11.9 11 12.0 6
East Sussex 12.9 22 11.1 29 10.1 24 8.7 32
Leicestershire 12.8 23 11.5 27 10.3 21 9.6 20
Bromley 12.7 24 13.4 10 12.2 10 11.1 11
Bedfordshire 12.7 24 9.6 43 9.0 36 8.6 34
Hereford and Worcester 12.7 24 11.7 23 10.1 24 9.4 23
Kent 12.7 24 11.1 29 9.6 30 9.4 23
Bolton 12.5 28 10.7 31 9.1 34 9.3 25
Cleveland 12.5 28 10.4 35 9.1 34 8.4 37
Rotherham 12.3 30 11.6 26 9.3 32 7.9 41
North Tyneside 12.1 31 10.6 32 8.2 46 7.3 51
St. Helens 12.0 32 10.1 39 9.2 33 8.5 35
Calderdale 12.0 32 11.3 28 9.0 36 8.9 29
Kirklees 12.0 32 11.9 22 9.8 28 9.0 27
Redbridge 11.7 35 10.6 32 10.2 23 10.7 14
Leeds 11.6 36 9.3 47 8.3 45 7.8 44
Essex 11.4 37 10.0 40 8.6 40 7.7 45
Lincolnshire 11.3 38 9.5 44 8.9 38 8.4 37
Bexley 11.1 39 10.3 36 7.9 50 8.5 35
Manchester 11.1 39 9.9 42 8.6 40 7.5 48
Wigan 11.1 39 10.2 37 9.7 29 9.0 27
Shropshire 11.1 39 10.5 34 9.4 31 8.8 31
Staffordshire 11.1 39 9.5 44 8.6 40 7.6 46
Dorset 10.8 44 8.6 54 7.2 59 6.8 59
Croydon 10.7 45 9.5 44 7.2 59 7.4 49
Hampshire 10.6 46 9.1 49 8.0 48 7.3 51
Oxfordshire 10.4 47 10.2 37 10.0 27 9.5 21
Isle of Wight 10.3 48 11.7 23 8.6 40 6.2 66
Salford 10.1 49 6.8 75 8.2 46 7.9 41
Tameside 10.1 49 10.0 40 8.7 39 8.1 39
Nottinghamshire 10.1 49 9.3 47 8.0 48 7.0 56
Ealing 10.0 52 8.1 63 7.7 53 6.1 70
Wiltshire 10.0 52 8.3 60 7.0 64 5.8 73
Birmingham 9.7 54 8.5 57 6.7 68 5.8 73
Avon 9.6 55 8.8 52 7.7 53 7.0 56
Hillingdon 9.5 56 7.7 69 6.1 77 5.6 75
Merton 9.5 56 8.3 60 7.5 56 7.6 46
Havering 11.4 58 7.2 74 6.3 75 6.7 60
Newcastle upon Tyne 9.3 59 7.4 73 6.1 77 5.3 82
Walsall 9.1 60 8.9 51 7.9 50 7.4 49
Sheffield 9.1 60 7.6 71 7.2 59 6.3 63
Derbyshire 9.1 60 9.0 50 7.8 52 7.1 54
Devon 9.1 60 7.7 69 6.7 68 6.3 63
Doncaster 9.0 64 8.5 57 8.4 44 7.3 51
Norfolk 8.7 65 7.5 72 6.5 72 6.1 70
Lancashire 8.4 66 7.8 68 6.3 75 6.2 66
Bradford 8.3 67 6.4 78 5.9 79 5.2 83
Humberside 8.3 67 7.9 66 7.2 59 6.9 58
Northamptonshire 8.3 67 8.4 59 6.7 68 6.6 61
Suffolk 8.3 67 8.2 62 7.4 57 26. 66
Dudley 8.2 71 8.7 53 7.0 64 6.1 70
Oldham 8.2 71 8.1 63 7.2 59 5.5 77
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 8.2 71 8.6 54 6.8 66 6.2 66
Wolverhampton 8.0 74 6.7 77 6.5 72 5.6 75
Hounslow 7.9 75 8.0 65 7.4 57 6.3 63
Brent 7.7 76 8.6 54 6.4 74 5.4 78
Waltham Forest 7.4 77 5.5 83 3.6 89 3.8 90
Liverpool 7.2 78 7.9 66 7.6 55 7.1 54
Coventry 7.0 79 5.9 81 6.7 68 5.4 78
Gateshead 7.0 79 4.2 88 4.7 84 4.7 85
Somerset 7.0 79 5.3 84 4.2 88 3.9 88
Harrow 6.5 82 6.3 79 5.5 82 8.0 40
Durham 6.4 83 5.8 82 5.5 82 5.4 78
Sunderland 5.7 84 6.0 80 4.3 87 3.4 91
Sandwell 5.6 85 4.1 89 2.9 93 2.6 94
Rochdale 5.2 86 6.8 75 6.8 66 6.4 62
Wakefield 5.0 87 5.3 84 4.5 86 4.3 87
Bury 4.9 88 3.7 91 5.6 81 8.7 32
Inner London Boroughs 4.5 89 4.4 87 4.6 85 4.5 86
Haringey 4.2 90 3.9 90 3.6 89 3.9 88

1988–89 to 1990–91 1987–88 to 1989–90 1986–87 to 1988–89 1985–86 to 1987–88
Per cent. Rank Per cent. Rank Per cent. Rank Per cent. Rank
Barnsley 4.0 91 5.2 86 5.7 80 5.4 78
Barking and Dagenham 3.7 92 3.5 92 3.3 91 3.4 91
Knowsley 3.1 93 2.3 95 1.3 95 2.0 95
Newham 2.0 94 2.4 94 2.6 94 2.9 93
South Tyneside 1.3 95 2.8 93 3.2 92 4.9 84
Richmond upon Thames 0.0 96 0.0 96 0.0 96 0.0 96
Total 10.8 9.6 8.5 7.8

Note: The figures used in this reply have been estimated from the School Examination Survey, formerly the School Leavers Survey. This survey is based on a 10 per cent. sample and therefore the estimated LEA figures have been aggregated over three years in order to reduce the effect of sampling errors.

Some local education authorities provide a substantial proportion of their A level teaching in tertiary or other establishments than secondary schools. The tables do not include statistics showing results arising from such provision.