Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in how many secondary schools fewer than 60 per cent of pupils achieved five A* to C grades at GCSE including English and mathematics in the most recent three years for which figures are available.

The information requested can be derived from published key stage 4 school performance tables data for 2012[1], 2013[2] and 2014[3].

[1] File labelled KS4 XLS files at: www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/2012/download_data.html

[2] File labelled KS4 XLS files at: www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/2013/download_data.html

[3] File labelled KS4 XLS files at: www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/download_data.html