Education and Skills written question – answered at on 4 June 2007.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of people aged 19 achieved level 2 by (a) the age of 16 including English and mathematics and (b) by the age of 19 including English and mathematics in each year since 1997.
We do not currently have information on level 2 attainment by age 19 including English and Maths.
The proportion of pupils achieving 5+ GCSEs at grades A*-C including English and maths by the age of 16 are given in table 1.
Table 1: proportion of pupils aged 15( 1) achieving 5+ A*-C including English and maths | |
Percentage of pupils aged 15 achieving 5+ A*-C inc. English and maths | |
1997 | 35.6 |
1998 | 37.0 |
1999 | 38.6 |
2000 | 40.0 |
2001 | 40.7 |
2002 | 42.1 |
2003 | 41.9 |
2004 | 42.6 |
2005 | 44.3 |
2006 | 45.3 |
(1) Pupils aged 15 at the start of the academic year (i.e. 31 August). |
The proportion of young people qualified to level 2 by age and cohort is given in table 2.
Table 2: proportion of young people qualified to level 2 or higher, by age and cohort | |||||||
Percentage | |||||||
Attained level 2+ by age: | |||||||
Cohort | 16( 1) | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Population( 2) |
19 in 2004 | 49.2 | 56.1 | 62.0 | 66.3 | 69.1 | 71.1 | 614,560 |
19 in 2005 | 50.3 | 58.5 | 64.9 | 69.3 | 72.0 | n/a | 618,400 |
19 in 2006 | 52.2 | 60.1 | 67.1 | 71.4 | n/a | n/a | 631,890 |
19 in 2007 | 53.0 | 62.2 | 70.4 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 652,180 |
19 in 2008 | 55.5 | 64.9 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 645,400 |
19 in 2009 | 57.2 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 656,210 |
n/a = Data not available. (1) Estimates at age 16 differ from other published figures on the attainment of pupils aged 15 in schools and colleges because different denominators are used and matching means the numerators are not quite the same. (2) The population is the size of the cohort at academic age 14, taken from the Annual Schools Census count for the relevant year. For example, the 19 in 2006 population (people aged 18 on 31 August 2005) is the number of pupils aged 14 on 31 August 2001. |
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