Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students have taken A Level Music by ethnic group in each year since 2010.

The total entries in each year are provided in the below table: [1], [2], [3], [4]

Information is not available for 2010

[1] For 2010/11 – 2015/16 - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-level-attainment-by-pupil-characteristics. For 2016/17 - https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2016-to-2017-revised (open the ‘A level exam results and A level and vocational participation csv’ and then the ‘A level subjects by characteristics’ file).

[2] Figures are based on final data.

[3] Students, at the end of their 16-18 study, who entered A level music.

[4] Includes entries into A level music qualifications which are eligible for inclusion in performance tables. Where qualifications taken by a student are in the same subject area and similar in content, ‘discounting’ rules have been applied to avoid double counting qualifications.

[5] The methodology through which students ethnicity is identified was changed in 2016/17. Up to 2015/16 a student’s ethnicity was taken from their census record three years prior to the academic year the figures are reported for. In 2016/17 a student’s ethnicity is taken from the census record of their final year of key stage 4 study (normally, three years prior). Due to this change, 2016/17 figures can not be compared to earlier years.

[6] A student’s ethnicity may be unknown for several reasons, including if they attended an independent secondary school (which do not complete the school census).