HC Deb 27 January 1997 vol 289 cc76-83W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list(a) by local education authority in England and (b) in total, the number and percentage of 16-year-olds who left school with fewer than five GCSEs at grades A to C broken down by gender in the last five years for which figures are available. [12187]

Mrs. Gillan

The information requested is not available for 16-year-olds who left school. However, the following table shows the number and percentage of all 15-year-olds—at start of the year—in maintained schools in England who achieved fewer than five GCSEs at grades A* to C, whether they left school or not.

Number and percentage of 15-year-olds in maintained schools in England with fewer than 5 GCSE passes at grades A*—C
Boys 1991–92 Girls 1991–92 Boys 1992–93 Girls 1992–93
LEA Number Per cent. Number Per cent. Number Per cent. Number Per cent.
Camden 480 72.5 594 60.7 441 69.8 548 57.6
Greenwich 955 81.7 858 71.7 873 78.1 819 70.1
Hackney 525 85.6 598 76.7 416 80.2 561 73.6
Hammersmith and Fulham 395 73.8 349 72.3 378 74.6 331 69.4
Islington 585 81.9 388 78.4 565 80.9 377 78.7
Kensington and Chelsea 206 68.2 221 75.7 211 68.7 169 69.8
Lambeth 458 88.4 543 76.9 447 85.8 511 73.7
Lewisham 813 79.4 636 69.7 744 80.3 605 68.7
Southwark 784 87.8 678 81.7 679 83.8 646 79.8
Tower Hamlets 903 85.8 758 81.9 864 83.5 758 78.5
Wandsworth 629 77.4 492 69.8 595 75.5 431 67.6
Westminster 500 81.7 407 70.2 466 77.5 410 69.3
Barking and Dagenham 705 86.7 642 82.1 682 84.0 515 76.3
Barnet 937 63.1 712 51.0 893 63.2 647 45.8
Bexley 935 71.4 687 59.2 764 65.8 640 56.2
Brent 702 75.9 569 66.1 657 72.8 548 62.1
Bromley 763 61.8 599 49.5 752 58.1 654 51.5
Croydon 1,002 70.3 754 53.7 1,033 70.0 739 53.8
Ealing 892 76.6 745 69.6 843 76.4 747 68.0
Enfield 1,022 70.8 836 64.1 898 67.1 775 58.6
Haringey 668 80.7 488 70.4 646 80.0 484 69.8
Harrow 538 58.2 458 49.6 579 61.7 435 48.9
Havering 902 65.5 803 57.7 856 62.2 713 54.8
Hillingdon 815 71.1 615 58.0 744 67.9 619 58.8
Hounslow 708 70.0 622 60.2 735 70.4 601 58.7
Kingston upon Thames 347 59.0 307 48.7 276 51.2 259 44.2
Merton 539 69.9 425 63.2 467 71.1 408 61.6
Newham 970 82.9 888 75.8 968 83.8 782 71.8
Redbridge 828 67.3 620 57.4 757 63.7 616 55.0
Richmond upon Thames 408 62.6 320 52.1 417 60.2 328 50.2
Sutton 500 57.5 418 51.2 441 50.2 413 49.5
Waltham Forest 822 78.3 659 69.7 770 74.5 592 62.7
Birmingham 4,486 77.4 3,901 72.3 4,262 76.2 3,534 69.7
Coventry 1,127 71.1 992 63.3 1,142 71.4 896 61.4
Dudley 1,205 68.1 979 61.4 1,100 66.9 839 56.5
Sandwell 1,398 80.3 1,232 75.8 1,266 81.4 1,193 74.4
Solihull 808 64.1 638 52.3 757 61.2 577 50.2
Walsall 1,226 72.0 1,043 64.9 1,190 74.1 965 65.3
Wolverhampton 1,135 79.4 953 71.0 1,005 76.1 876 64.8
Knowsley 771 85.0 703 82.2 711 86.1 576 80.2
Liverpool 2,048 81.7 1,834 75.3 1,752 76.6 1,717 73.8
St. Helens 837 73.8 693 64.9 732 70.7 639 64.0
Sefton 1,047 67.9 922 58.4 958 61.5 748 50.1
Wirral 1,215 65.6 1,047 61.0 1,039 63.4 964 57.8
Bolton 1,150 70.1 864 58.7 955 66.0 818 58.3
Bury 598 64.2 534 55.1 556 61.2 391 45.8
Manchester 1,823 84.8 1,511 77.6 1,665 83.2 1,459 75.6
Oldham 1,109 78.5 918 67.2 1,022 72.7 801 61.7
Rochdale 922 78.0 788 69.9 831 73.5 691 66.3
Salford 898 76.6 789 72.8 766 75.1 690 65.8
Stockport 954 63.7 786 54.8 811 58.0 648 50.1
Tameside 996 74.2 762 65.4 862 71.7 722 64.6
Trafford 635 69.5 562 57.6 593 65.0 506 53.3
Wigan 1,225 66.9 993 54.4 1,138 64.4 906 52.5
Barnsley 1,019 82.2 777 69.0 850 78.3 779 72.7
Doncaster 1,377 76.3 1,159 68.1 1,174 73.0 1,011 63.4
Rotherham 1,148 73.3 1,023 67.1 1,033 70.1 884 61.5
Sheffield 1,946 74.5 1,591 66.8 1,803 71.9 1,369 60.5
Bradford 2,289 80.4 1,966 73.9 2,260 78.0 1,824 71.0
Calderdale 796 72.8 686 61.4 747 73.2 625 59.8
Kirklees 1,640 72.6 1,357 64.1 1,461 70.8 1,119 58.0
Leeds 2,894 73.9 2,299 63.1 2,461 70.8 2,140 61.8
Wakefield 1,386 77.5 1,121 66.6 1,242 71.8 1,004 65.4
Gateshead 778 76.0 736 67.3 688 69.8 590 62.6
Newcastle upon Tyne 983 75.3 945 71.0 914 72.0 793 67.1
North Tyneside 650 68.6 637 62.1 648 67.2 536 58.0
South Tyneside 631 72.8 567 67.3 577 73.0 489 63.3
Sunderland 1,314 76.4 1,186 67.4 1,189 74.6 1,063 64.3
Avon 3,323 68.6 2,617 58.7 3,156 68.2 2,501 57.1
Bedfordshire 2,121 69.8 1,663 60.0 1,909 65.5 1,649 58.3
Berkshire 2,624 64.3 1,976 53.3 2,304 60.2 1,890 51.5
Buckinghamshire 2,101 59.8 1,698 50.0 2,026 58.0 1,683 48.4
Number and percentage of 15-year-olds in maintained schools in England with fewer than 5 GCSE passes at grades A*—C
Boys 1991–92 Girls 1991–92 Boys 1992–93 Girls 1992–93
LEA Number Per cent. Number Per cent. Number Per cent. Number Per cent.
Cambridgeshire 2,388 65.4 1,884 55.3 2,236 64.6 1,759 53.0
Cheshire 3,538 63.6 2,884 53.9 3,172 60.8 2,582 50.2
Cleveland 2,596 73.7 2,263 66.5 2,361 72.5 2,110 65.0
Cornwall 1,695 68.0 1,408 55.9 1,589 64.0 1,262 52.4
Cumbria 1,769 67.0 1,499 58.0 1,668 63.7 1,367 55.1
Derbyshire 3,581 67.8 2,969 59.7 3,398 67.5 2,680 56.6
Devon 3,414 67.3 2,850 57.0 3,201 65.1 2,566 53.7
Dorset 2,051 63.4 1,713 55.0 1,899 60.4 1,503 50.6
Durham 2,430 71.8 2,073 64.4 2,209 70.6 1,870 60.7
East Sussex 1,904 65.5 1,497 53.9 1,774 62.0 1,425 53.4
Essex 5,894 67.9 4,864 58.3 5,537 65.6 4,486 56.0
Gloucestershire 1,783 62.8 1,423 51.4 1,603 60.3 1,290 49.9
Hampshire 5,129 65.4 4,308 55.7 4,998 64.5 3,850 52.0
Hereford and Worcester 2,481 68.6 2,000 55.6 2,314 64.6 1,836 54.3
Hertfordshire 3,376 61.8 2,667 50.7 3,206 60.9 2,530 49.1
Humberside 3,854 73.0 3,329 65.3 3,710 72.2 3,054 65.0
Isle of Wight 434 67.6 404 63.5 446 69.6 358 59.8
Isles of Scilly 6 46.2 6 40.0 2 22.2 2 28.6
Kent 5,819 67.5 4,806 58.3 5,369 65.2 4,574 56.7
Lancashire 5,364 67.8 4,499 59.0 4,847 65.3 3,931 55.7
Leicestershire 3,595 71.2 2,918 62.0 3,351 67.1 2,623 57.3
Lincolnshire 2,241 67.6 1,872 59.1 2,071 65.2 1,735 56.9
Norfolk 2,706 69.4 2,300 59.6 2,592 66.5 2,030 55.8
North Yorkshire 2,301 62.2 1,877 52.0 2,058 57.9 1,672 47.3
Northamptonshire 2,334 68.4 2,014 59.2 2,175 67.0 1,814 57.0
Northumberland 1,281 68.6 958 55.2 1,142 63.4 875 54.2
Nottinghamshire 4,184 74.3 3,551 65.9 3,779 71.0 3,140 62.6
Oxfordshire 1,765 63.2 1,393 53.8 1,625 60.1 1,274 50.0
Shropshire 1,629 65.8 1,241 54.5 1,411 61.7 1,093 51.6
Somerset 1,535 64.3 1,155 49.9 1,486 62.7 1,036 48.8
Staffordshire 4,297 71.8 3,428 61.5 3,808 69.2 3,040 57.6
Suffolk 2,283 66.8 1,748 54.8 2,074 63.1 1,633 49.9
Surrey 2,559 60.0 2,091 51.2 2,386 58.1 1,847 47.7
Warwickshire 1,801 68.4 1,459 57.4 1,677 66.0 1,318 54.1
West Sussex 2,089 59.6 1,612 47.8 2,031 58.2 1,604 47.3
Wiltshire 1,842 65.4 1,568 54.4 1,773 62.5 1,430 52.0
Total England 176,817 69.6 146,668 60.3 163,390 67.2 133,985 57.5
Boys 1993–94 Girls 1993–94 Boys 1994–95 Girls 1994–95
LEA Number Per cent. Number Per cent. Number Per cent. Number Per cent.
Camden 446 66.3 552 54.9 446 62.9 551 55.4
Greenwich 886 78.1 793 68.0 944 74.2 892 69.2
Hackney 476 82.4 547 73.3 484 85.1 562 69.8
Hammersmith and Fulham 378 70.5 336 65.5 403 73.0 312 62.8
Islington 531 79.7 348 75.8 611 84.5 441 80.2
Kensington and Chelsea 168 60.6 172 71.1 151 58.5 165 69.6
Lambeth 434 85.6 502 72.4 436 82.0 508 72.9
Lewisham 755 76.9 593 68.4 794 76.8 619 64.8
Southwark 723 83.3 699 80.1 715 83.7 590 71.7
Tower Hamlets 781 84.3 670 78.1 828 80.5 739 75.9
Wandsworth 616 76.8 393 63.2 642 75.5 468 63.6
Westminster 462 81.6 420 68.6 458 79.0 414 64.2
Barking and Dagenham 630 76.1 487 68.2 662 74.8 568 69.8
Barnet 881 56.7 554 40.2 828 53.2 626 41.3
Bexley 771 62.9 681 56.5 781 62.9 623 50.8
Brent 608 67.5 529 62.5 703 71.4 565 58.3
Bromley 736 54.6 583 46.7 791 56.4 718 49.0
Croydon 1,083 71.3 771 53.8 1,106 69.4 890 56.9
Ealing 852 72.2 733 63.2 878 74.0 742 59.5
Enfield 904 63.0 769 56.0 1,035 66.0 818 55.1
Haringey 556 76.8 514 66.7 698 78.6 521 65.7
Harrow 553 56.9 452 46.3 561 52.2 424 42.5
Havering 827 61.4 665 53.3 874 61.2 768 54.5
Hillingdon 785 68.9 607 55.5 781 66.8 740 57.9
Hounslow 777 64.8 631 54.5 904 67.3 644 53.9
Kingston upon Thames 300 52.5 267 43.7 319 49.8 286 39.7
Merton 482 71.1 422 62.2 510 65.5 395 56.1
Newham 920 81.8 841 72.4 1,035 81.0 917 71.5
Boys 1993–94 Girls 1993–94 Boys 1994–95 Girls 1994–95
LEA Number Per cent. Number Per cent. Number Per cent. Number Per cent.
Redbridge 725 59.6 521 46.8 750 57.9 624 51.8
Richmond upon Thames 372 54.5 326 45.6 427 58.4 308 44.9
Sutton 439 50.4 377 43.8 475 48.9 398 45.1
Waltham Forest 786 74.6 646 64.8 851 73.2 669 60.9
Birmingham 4,070 74.1 3,369 65.0 4,181 72.2 3,565 65.2
Coventry 1,073 70.4 906 61.0 1,224 71.0 997 60.8
Dudley 1,125 62.8 839 53.8 1,151 63.1 923 53.3
Sandwell 1,278 76.9 1,029 68.1 1,398 76.6 1,213 69.4
Solihull 729 57.4 563 46.4 793 57.8 696 46.9
Walsall 1,180 72.0 961 63.0 1,302 73.4 1,074 63.7
Wolverhampton 1,023 76.2 857 64.4 1,091 73.7 929 64.3
Knowsley 646 82.0 604 75.5 766 82.5 701 78.9
Liverpool 1,853 77.7 1,764 72.3 2,154 77.3 1,841 70.2
St. Helens 710 67.6 599 61.2 785 67.3 593 56.9
Sefton 951 58.5 794 51.1 1,050 61.4 878 51.1
Wirral 1,090 63.2 972 57.4 1,172 59.3 1,032 54.5
Bolton 981 62.8 759 53.1 1,054 63.4 804 53.3
Bury 509 56.8 477 52.0 615 57.7 499 51.4
Manchester 1,575 80.8 1,375 72.7 1,650 81.0 1,449 73.9
Oldham 1,042 72.9 904 62.9 1,192 73.7 933 62.1
Rochdale 825 74.2 644 60.9 891 72.0 725 62.1
Salford 782 73.4 705 68.2 905 76.4 775 67.7
Stockport 770 55.2 679 47.6 885 56.7 649 47.7
Tameside 859 71.2 727 60.4 943 69.9 818 63.3
Trafford 587 62.6 486 49.4 609 57.5 537 48.6
Wigan 1,094 62.1 955 54.5 1,264 63.0 1,000 52.0
Barnsley 889 75.7 721 64.5 956 76.6 831 65.5
Doncaster 1,247 71.2 987 61.0 1,311 71.7 1,021 64.8
Rotherham 1,068 68.9 911 61.4 1,124 68.2 986 59.5
Sheffield 1,669 68.6 1,434 60.2 1,796 68.3 1,485 58.8
Bradford 2,234 77.8 1,830 68.6 2,360 76.1 1,923 67.4
Calderdale 728 67.5 584 58.6 823 66.0 673 59.4
Kirklees 1,420 66.6 1,157 58.5 1,608 68.4 1,231 56.2
Leeds 2,466 68.6 2,098 58.9 2,728 69.4 2,170 58.6
Wakefield 1,124 68.5 935 60.1 1,243 69.3 1,113 60.4
Gateshead 738 71.4 579 60.9 775 65.8 707 61.4
Newcastle upon Tyne 930 72.5 787 66.5 1,016 72.6 950 70.5
North Tyneside 599 61.1 518 56.4 732 63.3 587 55.9
South Tyneside 583 68.3 488 60.4 686 71.2 585 60.8
Sunderland 1,304 74.1 1,162 65.8 1,472 74.5 1,192 63.0
Avon 3,056 64.7 2,442 54.8 3,205 63.4 2,589 54.0
Bedfordshire 1,892 63.5 1,638 55.8 2,171 65.2 1,791 56.1
Berkshire 2,204 56.0 1,825 47.4 2,421 55.6 1,943 47.5
Buckinghamshire 2,046 55.4 1,530 45.3 2,192 55.7 1,733 45.9
Cambridgeshire 2,156 62.1 1,683 51.1 2,263 59.4 1,856 51.3
Cheshire 3,013 57.2 2,558 48.8 3,448 58.7 2,736 47.7
Cleveland 2,377 68.8 2,029 61.4 2,625 70.0 2,325 62.7
Cornwall 1,512 59.5 1,165 48.2 1,590 58.0 1,300 49.3
Cumbria 1,722 62.3 1,272 50.4 1,654 60.8 1,372 52.1
Derbyshire 3,167 63.6 2,632 54.4 3,662 64.9 2,846 55.0
Devon 3,082 61.5 2,569 52.5 3,517 62.2 2,667 50.9
Dorset 1,812 55.4 1,435 45.8 2,021 56.4 1,484 45.4
Durham 2,255 69.2 1,990 61.6 2,694 70.9 2,109 59.9
East Sussex 1,826 60.6 1,466 52.5 2,095 62.2 1,662 53.6
Essex 5,346 63.9 4,328 53.1 5,583 62.2 4,461 52.0
Gloucestershire 1,540 58.0 1,335 49.4 1,636 54.9 1,354 46.2
Hampshire 4,730 60.8 3,876 50.6 4,872 59.7 3,906 48.2
Hereford and Worcester 2,182 61.7 1,785 50.6 2,380 61.5 1,998 52.5
Hertfordshire 3,069 58.4 2,450 46.4 3,396 57.9 2,623 46.0
Humberside 3,620 71.8 2,861 60.3 3,899 70.4 3,272 61.8
Isle of Wight 429 63.5 347 55.3 460 62.8 365 58.8
Isles of Scilly 6 42.9 2 18.2 5 62.5 5 38.5
Kent 5,394 63.7 4,397 55.2 5,702 62.7 4,702 53.3
Lancashire 4,739 62.3 3,950 55.3 5,102 62.5 4,243 53.9
Leicestershire 3,181 66.2 2,642 55.2 3,499 65.0 2,829 55.3
Lincolnshire 1,962 60.7 1,704 53.9 2,044 59.0 1,770 51.3
Norfolk 2,516 65.2 2,057 54.4 2,592 62.8 2,006 50.6
North Yorkshire 2,048 55.6 1,669 46.2 2,235 54.4 1,786 45.0
Northamptonshire 2,225 65.1 1,841 56.8 2,342 64.7 1,960 55.1
Northumberland 1,164 63.7 941 53.5 1,278 61.9 1,028 52.3
Nottinghamshire 3,723 68.7 3,256 62.0 3,914 68.5 3,298 59.4
Oxfordshire 1,643 58.8 1,245 48.2 1,752 60.5 1,364 47.7
Shropshire 1,403 59.1 973 45.5 1,531 59.8 1,210 48.8
Boys 1993–94 Girls 1993–94 Boys 1994–95 Girls 1994–95
LEA Number Per cent. Number Per cent. Number Per cent. Number Per cent.
Somerset 1,363 57.2 1,055 47.6 1,422 57.3 1,099 47.0
Staffordshire 3,805 67.1 3,032 56.4 4,039 65.6 3,398 56.8
Suffolk 1,973 60.8 1,576 50.8 2,134 59.2 1,711 49.0
Surrey 2,369 56.7 1,938 47.5 2,612 55.7 2,010 45.5
Warwickshire 1,612 62.6 1,267 51.8 1,645 61.8 1,348 50.5
West Sussex 1,982 55.2 1,479 43.6 2,097 54.2 1,669 43.8
Wiltshire 1,691 59.3 1,346 49.4 1,786 57.0 1,381 45.9
Total England 160,229 64.7 132,146 55.4 173.101 64.3 141,799 54.7