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Written Answers
26 OCTOBER 2009
Written Answers
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Local authority admission policy
Percentage of pupils 1 achieving eight
or more GCSEs at grade A* or A,
2009 2
National (maintained schools) 6.7
1
Pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 in maintained schools.
2
Data for 2009 are provisional and subject to change after school checking.
3
Selective local authorities include Buckinghamshire, Kent, Medway, Slough,
Southend, Torbay and Trafford.
4
Partially selective local authorities include Barnet, Bexley, Birmingham,
Bournemouth, Bromley, Calderdale, City of Plymouth, Cumbria, Devon,
Enfield, Essex, Gloucestershire, Kingston upon Thames, Kirklees, Lancashire,
Lincolnshire, Liverpool, North Yorkshire, Poole, Reading, Redbridge, Stoke
on Trent, Sutton, Telford and the Wrekin, Walsall, Warwickshire, Wiltshire,
Wirral and Wolverhampton.
GCSE: Disadvantaged
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for
Children, Schools and Families how many pupils
eligible for free school meals did not sit GCSE
examinations in five or more subjects in 2008. [286397]
Mr. Coaker: Of those pupils eligible to receive free
school meals in maintained schools in England, 8,704
pupils were not entered for GCSE examinations in five
or more subjects in 2008.
The figure includes all GCSE and equivalent
qualifications.
This figure has been derived from the National Pupil
Database. Data on pupils’ eligibility for free school
meals is collected in the Pupil-Level Annual School
Census which only takes place in maintained schools.
GCSE: Enfield
Joan Ryan: To ask the Secretary of State for
Children, Schools and Families how many children at
schools in Enfield North constituency obtained nine or
more GCSEs at grades A* to C or equivalent including
English and mathematics in each year since 1997.
[294195]
Mr. Coaker: The information can be provided only at
disproportionate cost.
Primary Education: Finance
Nadine Dorries: To ask the Secretary of State for
Children, Schools and Families how many schools in
(a) Mid Bedfordshire constituency and (b)
Bedfordshire have participated in the Primary Capital
Programme in 2009. [295365]
Mr. Coaker: Funding for the national roll out of the
Primary Capital Programme commenced in April 2009.
It follows that very few of the projects to be funded
wholly or partly through the programme will have actually
started on site at this stage.
I am pleased to confirm, however, that the strategic
plan submitted through the former Bedfordshire Council’s
Primary Strategy for Change has resulted in additional
funding of £9.3 million being approved to support local
delivery over the two year period 2009-11 duly confirmed.
Decisions about the prioritisation of individual projects
are rightly matters for local determination. The programme
aims to support local authorities in renewing around
half of all primary schools by 2023. More detailed
information about the work planned can be obtained
from the local authority.
Pupil Exclusions
John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for
Children, Schools and Families (1) how many children
had been permanently excluded from (a) schools and
(b) Catholic schools on the latest date for which
figures are available; [293957]
(2) what proportion of pupils at (a) schools and (b)
Catholic schools were permanently excluded in the last
12 months. [293958]
Mr. Coaker: Data on the number and percentage of
pupil enrolments permanently excluded from school in
2007/08 are shown in the table.
Primary, secondary and special schools 1 , number and percentage of pupil
enrolments 2 permanently excluded by denomination of school 3 , England 2007/08
(estimates) 4
Number of pupil
enrolments permanently
excluded 2
Percentage of pupils
permanently excluded 5
Catholic schools 3 630 0.09
Other schools 3 7,500 0.11
Total for all schools 8,130 0.11
1
Includes middle schools, city technology colleges, academies, and maintained
and non-maintained special schools. Excludes general hospital schools.
2
Pupils may be counted more than once if they are permanently excluded from
more than one school during the year.
3
Denomination of school as Roman Catholic or otherwise as it appears in
Edubase. Multi-denominational schools have been categorised as other.
4
Figures relating to permanent exclusions are estimates based on incomplete
pupil-level data.
5
The number of pupil enrolments permanently excluded as a percentage of the
number (headcount) of all pupils (excluding dually registered pupils) in January
2008, in each denomination category.
Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.
Source:
School Census and Edubase.
Pupils: Absenteeism
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for
Children, Schools and Families how many maintained
schools in which over (a) five, (b) 10, (c) 15 and (d)
20 per cent. of pupils were persistent absentees had less
than 30 per cent. of pupils gain five GCSEs including
English and mathematics at grades A* to C in each
year since 2005. [282726]
Mr. Coaker: The information requested is given in
the following table:
Percentage of persistent absence 1 in school
Percentage
>5 >10 >15 >20
2007 Maintained 2 schools 2,587 893 329 183
with fewer than 29.5 per
cent. achieving five or
more GCSEs at A*-C, or
the equivalent, including
English and maths
1,194 696 313 181
2008 Maintained 2 schools 2,305 634 263 143
with fewer than 29.5 per
cent. achieving five or
more GCSEs at A*-C, or
the equivalent, including
English and maths
1,011 519 254 142
1
Persistent absence is defined as missing more than 63 sessions.
2
Including city technology colleges, academies and maintained special schools—all
schools in the table have at least one pupil at the end of Key Stage 4.
Notes:
1. Special schools are included in the figures.
2. Data matching persistent absence to school attainment is only available from
2007.