Asked by: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which (a) selective, (b) partially selective and (c) comprehensive local authority areas in England ranked by correlating guaranteed per pupil against the proportion of pupils attaining five or more grade A* to C GCSEs including English and mathematics in core subjects in the last year for which data is available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The percentage of pupils achieving 5 A* - C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics for areas with different selection policies is listed in the table below. These figures relate to 2014/2015 final data.
| GCSE and equivalents | |
| Pupils at state funded schools at the end of key stage 4 2014/2015 | Proportion of pupils achieving 5A*-C grade GCSEs including English and Maths |
Fully selective areas1 | 47,258 | 60.6 |
Partially selective areas2 | 124,962 | 58.4 |
Non-selective areas | 378,534 | 56.6 |
Source: Key Stage 4 attainment data: final
Notes:
1. Includes schools in the following areas which operate area wide arrangements for academic selection: Bexley, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Medway, Slough, Southend, Sutton, Torbay and Trafford.
2. Includes schools in twenty-six local authorities that have selective schools operating their own arrangements for academic selection.
Asked by: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children obtained five or more GCSEs at grade A* to C including English and mathematics in (a) selective, (b) partially selective and (c) comprehensive local authority areas in the last year for which data is available; and what that proportion was by ethnic group in each of those categories.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The table below shows the number and percentage of pupils achieving five A* to C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics by ethnicity, for areas with different selection policies.
Pupils at state funded schools at the end of key stage 4 2015 | Ethnicity | Number of pupils | Percentage of pupils achieving 5A*-C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics |
Fully selective areas1 | White | 39,190 | 58.7 |
Mixed | 1,976 | 66.4 | |
Asian | 3,358 | 75 | |
Black | 1,665 | 62.6 | |
Chinese | 268 | 85.8 | |
Any other ethnic group | 387 | 70.8 | |
Unclassified | 414 | 66.2 | |
All pupils | 47,258 | 60.6 | |
Pupils at state funded schools at the end of key stage 4 2015 | Ethnicity | Number of pupils | Percentage of pupils achieving 5A*-C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics |
Partially selective areas2 | White | 98,600 | 58.2 |
Mixed | 5,101 | 58.5 | |
Asian | 12,857 | 62.4 | |
Black | 4,992 | 50.2 | |
Chinese | 488 | 81.4 | |
Any other ethnic group | 1,727 | 57.2 | |
Unclassified | 1,197 | 57 | |
All pupils | 124,962 | 58.4 | |
Pupils at state funded schools at the end of key stage 4 2015 | Ethnicity | Number of pupils | Percentage of pupils achieving 5A*-C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics |
Non-selective areas | White | 299,490 | 56.4 |
Mixed | 15,332 | 57.2 | |
Asian | 32,578 | 60.3 | |
Black | 20,281 | 52.4 | |
Chinese | 1,264 | 75.6 | |
Any other ethnic group | 5,336 | 59.2 | |
Unclassified | 4,253 | 49.9 | |
All pupils | 378,534 | 56.6 |
Source: key stage 4 attainment data: final
Notes: 1. Includes schools in the following areas which operate area wide arrangements for academic selection: Bexley, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Medway, Slough, Southend, Sutton, Torbay and Trafford. |
2. Includes schools in twenty-six local authorities that have selective schools operating their own arrangements for academic selection. |
Asked by: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children achieved (a) five A* to C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics and (b) two or more A grades at A-level nationally; and what proportion of children achieved such grades in (i) selective, (ii) partially selective and (iii) comprehensive local education authority areas in the most recent year for which data is available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The proportion of students achieving two or more A grades at A level is not available.
The table below shows the number and percentage of pupils achieving five A* to C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics and the number and percentage of pupils achieving three or more A grades at A level for areas with different selection policies.
| GCSE and equivalents |
| A level | ||
| Pupils at state funded schools at the end of key stage 4 2014/2015 | Percentage of pupils achieving five A*-C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics |
| Students at the end of advance level study at state funded schools entered for at least one A level or applied single/double award A level 2014/15 | Percentage of students achieving three or more A grades at A level or applied single/double level award |
Fully selective areas1 | 47,258 | 60.6 |
| 20,085 | 14.0 |
Partially selective areas2 | 124,962 | 58.4 |
| 41,737 | 12.4 |
Non-selective areas | 378,534 | 56.6 |
| 96,619 | 8.1 |
Source: KS4 & KS5 attainment data 2014/2015: final
Notes: |
|
1. Includes schools in the following areas which operate area wide arrangements for academic selection: Bexley, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Medway, Slough, Southend, Sutton, Torbay and Trafford. | |
2. Includes schools in twenty-six local authorities that have selective schools operating their own arrangements for academic selection. | |
Asked by: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in (a) England and (b) Northern Ireland achieved five A* to C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics in the last five years for which data is available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information requested is not available.
The number of pupils achieving the individual subject components of the English Baccalaureate is available from the 'Revised GCSE and equivalent results in England: 2014 to 2015' statistical first release[1]. This refers to 2015 revised data.
The Department for Education produces statistics on England only. The responsibility for education statistics in Northern Ireland lies with Northern Irish devolved administration.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2014-to-2015 (Table 1b)
Asked by: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children obtained five or more good GCSEs including English and Mathematics in (a) selective, (b) partially selective and (c) comprehensive local authority areas in 2015; and what that proportion was by ethnic group in each of those categories.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The proportion of pupils achieving five or more GCSEs at A*-C, including English and mathematics, by local authority and ethnic group was published in the GCSE and equivalent statistical first release for 2015.[1]
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2014-to-2015
Asked by: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the effects on the worst funded schools of adjusting the percentage applied in the calculation of the Minimum Funding Guarantee.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The minimum funding guarantee protects schools from significant changes in their funding, limiting the year-on-year reductions in a school’s pupil-led funding to 1.5%.
The minimum funding guarantee for schools will continue to be set at minus 1.5% per pupil for 2016-17. We have committed to making funding fairer, but we cannot comment on the detail of proposals prior to the outcome of the Spending Review.
Asked by: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what amount of pupil premium paid was not spent in the year it was paid in each of the last four years; what proportion of the total spending on pupil premium that amounted to in each of those years; and what estimate she has made of the total amount of pupil premium carried over in each of those years.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The department does not collect information from schools and academies on the amounts of the pupil premium spent in any given year nor the amount carried forward to future years.
Local Authorities are obliged to provide an annual assurance that all pupil premium funding paid to them has been distributed appropriately. Schools and academies are also required to publish how much pupil premium funding they have received; what they have spent this on; and what impact this has had on the attainment of those pupils under the scope of the grant. This information is published annually, on their websites.
Whilst we do not collect the specific information requested, we do publish the pupil premium allocations themselves and they are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-2015-to-2016-allocations