HC Deb 11 November 1997 vol 300 cc523-5W
Barbara Follett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list by gender the

Pupils aged 15 in maintained schools in England 1995–96 achieving five or more grades A in GCSE
Boys Girls Total
Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage
Camden 60 8.1 130 12.5 190 10.6
Greenwich 39 3.3 55 4.5 94 3.6
Hackney 10 1.7 31 3.9 41 3.0
Hammersmith and Fulham 26 4.8 47 9.2 73 6.9
Islington 10 1.2 28 5.2 38 2.8
Kensington and Chelsea 27 9.9 20 7.1 47 8.5
Lambeth 6 1.1 26 3.7 32 2.6
Lewisham 28 2.6 57 5.9 85 4.1
Southwark 10 1.1 23 2.6 33 1.9
Tower Hamlets 20 1.8 21 2.1 41 1.9
Wandsworth 41 4.4 46 6.3 87 5.3
Westminster 22 3.3 38 6.0 60 4.6
Barking and Dagenham 26 2.8 17 2.0 43 2.4
Barnet 170 10.2 242 15.9 412 12.9
Bexley 71 5.4 105 8.7 176 7.0
Brent 38 3.4 43 4.1 81 3.7
Bromley 132 9.0 203 13.8 335 11.4
Croydon 52 3.2 120 8.0 172 5.5
Ealing 47 3.8 74 5.9 121 4.9
Enfield 90 5.3 148 10.0 238 7.5
Haringey 34 4.0 49 5.8 83 4.9
Harrow 97 9.1 138 13.4 235 11.2
Havering 68 4.7 125 8.9 193 6.8
Hillingdon 67 5.1 101 8.2 168 6.6
Hounslow 54 4.2 123 9.7 177 6.9
Kingston upon Thames 86 14.2 153 20.6 239 17.8
Merton 26 3.1 69 9.5 95 6.0
Newham 22 1.6 66 4.8 88 3.2
Redbridge 91 6.9 145 11.4 236 9.1
Richmond upon Thames 42 5.6 104 13.7 146 9.7
Sutton 117 11.7 136 14.8 253 13.2
Waltham Forest 37 3.0 72 6.2 109 4.6
Birmingham 261 4.4 419 7.3 680 5.8
Coventry 64 3.7 106 6.2 170 4.9
Dudley 111 5.7 149 8.3 260 7.0
Sandwell 35 1.8 36 2.0 71 1.9
Solihull 85 5.8 132 9.2 217 7.5
Walsall 77 4.2 101 6.0 178 5.0
Wolverhampton 34 2.3 120 8.2 154 5.3
Knowsley 8 0.9 15 1.8 23 1.3
Liverpool 115 4.3 131 4.8 246 4.5
St. Helens 48 4.5 109 9.8 157 7.2
Sefton 116 6.6 156 8.9 272 7.8
Wirral 152 7.3 222 11.1 374 9.2
Bolton 98 5.7 121 7.5 219 6.6
Bury 53 5.0 140 13.9 193 9.3
Manchester 43 2.1 84 4.3 127 3.2
Oldham 53 3.2 103 6.4 156 4.8
Rochdale 45 3.5 67 5.1 112 4.3
Salford 19 1.7 58 4.7 77 3.3
Stockport 123 8.0 160 9.9 283 8.9
Tameside 55 4.0 82 6.0 137 5.0
Trafford 97 8.6 169 14.1 266 11.4
Wigan 115 5.5 199 10.4 314 7.9
Barnsley 22 1.6 51 4.2 73 2.9
Doncaster 69 3.7 116 6.3 185 5.0
Rotherham 89 5.1 105 5.8 194 5.5
Sheffield 176 6.4 220 8.6 396 7.5
Bradford 86 2.7 141 4.8 227 3.7
Calderdale 69 5.6 96 8.0 165 6.8

number and percentage of 15-year-olds living in the 21 English new towns who achieved at least five grade A GCSE passes in the 1996–97 school year. [14394]

Dr. Howells

The GCSE results of pupils are collected by Local Education Authority area in which the school is located not by where a pupil lives. Information is not available by new towns, however, the latest data available by LEA are shown in the following table.

Pupils aged 15 in maintained schools in England 1995–96 achieving five or more grades A in GCSE
Boys Girls Total
Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage
Kirklees 85 3.6 185 8.1 270 5.8
Leeds 184 4.5 314 8.1 498 6.2
Wakefield 76 4.1 103 5.6 179 4.8
Gateshead 71 6.0 102 8.8 173 7.4
Newcastle upon Tyne 58 4.1 124 8.9 182 6.5
North Tyneside 51 4.3 106 9.5 157 6.8
South Tyneside 26 2.7 52 5.3 78 4.0
Sunderland 43 2.2 105 5.6 148 3.8
Isles of Scilly 3 27.3 3 20.0 6 23.1
Bath and North East Somerset 68 6.8 110 11.0 178 8.9
City of Bristol 57 3.4 99 6.1 156 4.7
North Somerset 93 8.5 108 10.6 201 9.5
South Gloucestershire 85 5.8 133 10.5 218 8.0
Hartlepool 19 3.1 31 5.2 50 4.1
Middlesbrough 27 2.8 37 3.9 64 3.3
Redcar and Cleveland 62 5.9 80 7.6 142 6.7
Stockton on Tees 69 5.5 103 8.8 172 7.1
City of Kingston upon Hull 22 1.4 50 3.4 72 2.4
East Riding of Yorkshire 94 5.2 164 9.1 258 7.1
North East Lincolnshire 45 4.2 44 3.8 89 4.0
North Lincolnshire 61 5.7 65 6.4 126 6.1
North Yorkshire 325 9.8 396 12.6 721 11.2
York 69 7.8 88 10.7 157 9.2
Bedfordshire 155 4.5 280 8.6 435 6.5
Berkshire 350 8.0 513 12.4 863 10.2
Buckinghamshire 469 11.8 506 13.1 975 12.4
Cambridgeshire 315 8.0 412 10.8 727 9.3
Cheshire 507 8.7 707 12.1 1,214 10.4
Cornwall 198 6.8 264 10.0 462 8.3
Cumbria 181 6.2 264 9.5 445 7.8
Derbyshire 297 5.3 433 7.8 730 6.6
Devon 332 6.0 551 9.9 883 7.9
Dorset 291 7.7 438 12.3 729 9.9
Durham 156 4.2 244 6.9 400 5.5
East Sussex 175 5.1 282 8.9 457 6.9
Essex 540 5.9 784 8.9 1,324 7.4
Gloucestershire 240 7.7 366 12.1 606 9.9
Hampshire 531 6.1 813 9.8 1,344 7.9
Hereford and Worcester 216 5.4 364 9.1 580 7.3
Hertfordshire 448 7.6 699 11.8 1,147 9.7
Isle of Wight 40 5.6 48 6.8 88 6.2
Kent 647 7.0 943 10.3 1,590 8.6
Lancashire 542 6.5 758 9.3 1,300 7.9
Leicestershire 254 4.5 392 7.3 646 5.9
Lincolnshire 239 6.7 374 10.6 613 8.6
Norfolk 203 4.7 347 8.4 550 6.5
Northamptonshire 188 5.0 259 7.0 447 6.0
Northumberland 129 6.9 232 11.7 361 9.4
Nottinghamshire 234 3.8 375 6.4 609 5.1
Oxfordshire 200 6.4 303 10.2 503 8.2
Shropshire 179 6.9 252 10.7 431 8.7
Somerset 207 8.1 284 11.3 491 9.7
Staffordshire 348 5.3 528 8.6 876 6.9
Suffolk 272 7.3 377 10.6 649 8.9
Surrey 315 6.7 501 11.2 816 8.9
Warwickshire 166 5.8 231 8.3 397 7.1
West Sussex 293 7.4 488 12.4 781 9.9
Wiltshire 258 8.1 388 12.5 646 10.3
Total England 15,792 5.7 23,965 9.0 39,757 7.3