§ Mr. JenkinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what assessment he has made of education standards in(a) Tamworth Borough and (b) Staffordshire.[75651]
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§ Ms Estelle Morris[holding answer 9 March 1999]: Statistics showing the standards of attainment by pupils in each school and local authority area are published in annual performance tables. A summary of recent results in Staffordshire and in primary and secondary schools in Tamworth Borough, which is not itself a local education authority, is set out in the following table. A sample of schools in each authority is inspected annually by Ofsted and reports published which include judgments about standards of attainment and the quality of education. A programme of inspections of all local education authorities is now being carried out by Ofsted, but none of the named authorities has yet been inspected. All authorities have just submitted for approval an Education Development Plan which includes a three-year programme for securing school improvement, and targets including those for pupil performance at ages 11 and 16 which will be monitored in future years.
LEA performance at key stage 2, GCSE and GCE A/AS level of LEAs in Tamworth borough and Staffordshire Tamworth borough2 Staffordshire England Key Stage 2 Percentage of pupil's achieving level 4 or above English 1998 57.3 65.9 64.1 1997 55.5 66.5 62.5 1996 50.8 56.3 56.3 Maths 1998 50.0 60.2 57.9 1997 54.1 65.3 61.3 1996 49.8 51.5 53.2 Science 1998 60.9 72.6 68.6 1997 60.6 72.2 68.1 1996 56.2 62.1 61.2 Aggregate 1998 168.1 198.7 190.6 1997 170.1 204.0 191.9 1996 156.8 169.9 170.7 GCSE Percentage of 15 year olds achieving 5A1-C GCSEs 1998 38.2 45 46.3 1997 38.2 45 45.1 1996 36.5 40.9 44.5 GCE A/AS level1 Average point score 1998 15.1 16.2 17.8 1997 13.7 17.7 17.3 1996 14.7 16.6 16.8 1 Only for those entering two or more GCE A/AS Levels 2 Not including special schools