Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether students taking music as a GCSE subject perform better overall in the Progress 8 measure.
Pupils who take music have higher progress 8 scores. This may not be the result of taking music and may be the result of taking more GCSEs.
The average progress 8[1] scores of pupils in state funded schools[2], at the end of key stage 4[3], split by whether they entered a GCSE or equivalent[4] qualification in music[5], are presented in the tables below.
Academic year 2016/17[6] | ||||
| Total pupils | Average Progress 8 score | Lower confidence interval[7] | Upper confidence interval7 |
Pupils not entering music5 | 460,593 | -0.05 | -0.05 | -0.05 |
Pupils entering music5 | 39,028 | 0.21 | 0.20 | 0.22 |
Academic year 2015/166 | ||||
| Total pupils | Average Progress 8 score | Lower confidence interval7 | Upper confidence interval7 |
Pupils not entering music5 | 469,513 | -0.05 | -0.05 | -0.05 |
Pupils entering music5 | 42,540 | 0.18 | 0.17 | 0.19 |
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