§ Mr. GibbTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to his answer of 10 June 2003,Official Report, column 784W, on specialist status schools, if he will make a statement on the variation in the average capped GCSE/GNVQ point scores among pupils attending (a) languages colleges, (b) sports colleges, (c) arts colleges and (d) technology colleges. [119793]
§ Mr. MilibandIn 2002, specialist schools outperformed non-specialist schools where the GCSE capped average point score was considered. When considering the individual specialist subjects, technology colleges had the highest average point score of the four specialisms. Technology, language and arts colleges all performed above the non-specialist average. The performance of sports colleges was slightly below the non-specialist average.
§ Mr. GibbTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to his Answer of 11 June 2003,Official Report, column 885W, on education initiatives, if he will list those non-selective specialist schools that are not defined as mainstream. [119886]
§ Mr. MilibandThe list of non-selective, non-mainstream specialist schools (ie special schools) is as follows.
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Special schools Area Subject Fox Hollies School Birmingham Arts Arbour Vale Special School Slough Sports Calthorpe Special School Birmingham Sports Westcroft Special School Wolverhampton Sports Abbey Hill School Stockton on Tees Technology Alder Grange High School Lancashire Technology1 Beaumont Hill School Darlington Technology Blackfriars Special School Staffordshire Technology Crosshill Special School Blackburn with Darwen Technology Marshfields School City of Peterborough Technology1 West Oaks School Leeds Technology Westfield Technology College Dorset Technology 1 From September 2003
§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many secondary schools in North East Lincolnshire have applied for specialist status; and how many have been successful in their applications. [120059]
§ Mr. MilibandThere have been seven applications for specialist school status received from seven schools in North East Lincolnshire LEA since the programme started in 1994. Four schools currently have specialist status: The Lindsey School, Toll Bar School and the Hereford School, which has joint specialist status with Western School.