§ Mr. BlunkettTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) if she will provide the GCSE average point score (A*=7) per 15-year-old pupil of each secondary comprehensive school in England by local education authority in each year from 1991 to 1995 as calculated by her Department, together with the number of such pupils per school in each year and the percentages of those pupils achieving at least five GCSEs at grades A to C, at least five GCSEs at Grades A to G, at least one GCSE at grades A to C and at least one GCSE at Grades A to G; [18887]
(2) if she will provide figures for the average number of GCSE subjects entered per pupil, to three decimal places, in each year since 1991 for each individual 20th group of all 15-year-old pupils ranked according to their average point scores (A*=7), for the cumulative 20th groups, indicating the numbers of each group and of the whole cohort in each case, in respect of (a) all such pupils in England, (b) all such pupils in the local education authority maintained sector, excluding those of grant-maintained schools, (c) all such pupils in the grant-maintained sector, (d) all such pupils in the maintained sector excluding those from independent schools and (e) all such pupils from the independent sector. [18891]
§ Mrs. GillanI will write to the hon. Member as soon as possible and place a copy of the answer in the Library.
§ Mr. BlunkettTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) what plans the Office for Standards in Education has to introduce a method of assessing the comparative effectiveness of secondary comprehensive schools in terms of their pupils' GCSE achievements in relation to their capabilities, as measured by statistically estimated GCSE scores derived from social characteristics, in all its inspections from April 1996; to what extent these will apply the method and characteristics set out in Ofsted's report of July 1995 "Assessing Schools' GCSE Performance"; and if she will make a statement; [18888]
(2) if she will list (a) Ofsted's comparative school effectiveness indicators alongside the name of each school and its local education authority for each of the secondary comprehensive schools included in the analysis of its report "Assessing Schools' GCSE Performance" of July 1995, (b) Ofsted's expected three-year average of the annual GCSE point score (A*=7) for each of these schools for 1992 to 1994, (c) each school's actual three-year average of its point scores in the same period and (d) such information for the period 1993 to 1995 as is available; [18889]
(3) if she will make a statement on the Ofsted report of July 1995 entitled, "Assessing Schools' GCSE Performance", in respect of the findings of its research on the indicators of the comparative effectiveness of all English secondary comprehensive schools in terms of the standards of GCSE achievements in relation of Ofsted's statistically estimated assessments of pupils' capabilities. [18890]
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§ Mr. Robin SquireThese are matters for Her Majesty's chief inspector of schools, who heads the Office for Standards in Education. I have asked Mr. Chris Woodhead to write to the hon. Member.