HC Deb 23 June 1998 vol 314 c468W
Mr. Kidney

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what criteria he applied in compiling the list of the top 100 schools. [46496]

Mr. Byers

In order to be included in the list, schools had to show sustained improvement in the proportion of pupils achieving 5 or more GCSE grades A*-C or the GNVQ equivalent in each of the years from 1994 to 1997.