Music: GCE A-level
(asked on 4th June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students (a) in total and (b) eligible for free school meals took A Level Music in each year since 2010.
The total number of students in each year, entering A level music, split by Free School Meal eligibility, is provided below: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
Year | Students eligible for FSM[4] | All other students[6] | Total students | The percentage of all A level students entering music |
2010/11 | 94 | 5,142 | 5,236 | 2.0% |
2011/12 | 120 | 4,912 | 5,032 | 1.9% |
2012/13 | 79 | 4,570 | 4,649 | 1.8% |
2013/14 | 95 | 4,448 | 4,543 | 1.8% |
2014/15[7] | 102 | 4,246 | 4,348 | 1.6% |
2015/16 | 90 | 3,694 | 3,784 | 1.2%[8] |
2016/17 | 92 | 3,841 | 3,933 | 1.2%[8] |
[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] Students, at the end of their 16-18 study, who entered A level music.
[3] 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.
[4] 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.
[5] Figures are based on final data.
[6] Includes students whose ethnicity is unknown. 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).
[7] Figures from 2012/13 to 2014/15 cover students at the end of advanced level study who were entered for at least one A level, applied single award A level, applied double award A level or combined A/AS level in the reporting year. Figures for earlier years cover students who were entered for at least one A level, applied single award A level, applied double award A level or combined A/AS level in the summer of the reporting year.
[8] From 2010/11 – 2014/15 these figures are based on students entered for A levels, from 2015/16 these figures are based on students entered for AS and A levels, resulting in a much bigger cohort. This artificially reduces the percentage in comparison to previous years and therefore comparisons between the percentages of 2015/16 and 2016/17 and earlier years cannot be made.