GCSE Results (Arundel and South Downs)

HC Deb 28 November 2001 vol 375 cc921-2W

Mr. Flight

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on difference in performance at GCSE between state secondary schools(a) with and (b) without a sixth form in Arundel and South Downs. [18325]

Mr. Ivan Lewis

The proportion of 15-year-olds achieving five or more GCSEs at A* to C in Arundel and South Downs in 2001 was as follows (the results of the individual schools included in the averages are also given):

Percentage
	Arundel and South Down	Individual schools
(a) Schools with sixth forms	56.7	—
The Angmering School	—	54
Steyning Grammar School	—	58
The St. Philip Howard Catholic High School	—	58

Percentage
	Arundel and South Down	Individual schools
(b) Schools without sixth forms	63.4	—
Westergate Community School	—	42
Downlands Community School	—	74