Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment

(asked on 21st October 2014) - View Source
Questioner
Portrait
Alison Seabeck
(Labour - Plymouth, Moor View)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many deaf pupils achieved five A* to C grades in (a) England, (b) the South West and (c) Plymouth in 2013.

Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 24th October 2014

The number and proportion of pupils at the end of key stage 4 with a hearing impairment who achieved 5 or more GCSE A* to C grades (or equivalent) in a) England, b) the South West and c) Plymouth in 2013 can be found in the table below.

Pupils with a hearing impairment

Number of eligible pupils1

Number of pupils achieving 5 or more
A*-C GCSE grades (or equivalent)

Percentage of pupils achieving 5 or more
A*-C GCSE grades (or equivalent)

England

1390

1024

73.7

South West

125

82

65.6

Plymouth

10

x

x

Source: National pupil database

  1. Figures are based on pupils at the end of key stage 4 and do not include those pupils recently arrived from overseas.

x = Figures not shown due to 1 or 2 pupils not achieving 5 or more A*-C GCSE grades (or equivalent). This suppression is to protect pupil confidentiality and consistent with the Department for Education’s statistical policy[1].

[1] www.gov.uk/government/publications/standards-for-official-statistics-published-by-the-department-for-education

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