More than a third of GCSE state school pupils took the English Baccalaureate qualification this year, compared with less than a quarter in 2012 according to new statistics published today.
Plans to replace GCSEs in favour of the "EBacc" have proved controversial. As education secretary Michael Gove unveiled plans earlier this year for changes to the exam system in English secondary schools, academic experts voiced their misgivings by commenting that "less academically gifted pupils could be left behind."
The provisional GCSE and equivalent results figures published today by the Department for Education (DfE) show that despite the rise in the number of students in England taking the EBacc, the proportion of pupils that entered all of the required subjects and then went on to pass the qualification has fallen to 64% compared to 70% in 2011/12.
In total, the proportion of students scoring five or more GCSEs or
equivalent at grade A* to C, including English and maths, has dropped from 59.4% to 58.6% according to today's release. Here are some more key points:
The percentage of all state school pupils achieving the EBacc rose from 16% in 2012 to 23% in 2013. Today's release also provides us with a breakdown by local authority; more than 40% of pupils in Kingston, Richmond and Sutton achieved the EBacc.
Despite the popularity of the EBacc in some areas in in England, the figures suggest it is a different story in other parts of the country. Fewer than 20% of pupils entered the EBacc in Middlesbrough, Sandwell, Knowsley and Barnsley.
The Russell Group, to which prestigious universities such as Oxford and Cambridge belong to, publish a list of 'facilitating subjects' in a publication entitled Informed Choices. According to the publication these consist of mathematics and further mathematics, English literature, physics, biology, chemistry, geography, history and languages (classical and modern). 41% of A level students took exams in two or more of these subjects this year - up by 35% in 2008.
Science has proved a draw to A-level students with the number of pupils entering A-level sciences at record levels. This year, 7.4% of pupils entered biology (the highest since 1996), 6.1% chemistry (again the highest since 1996) and a higher proportion of students entered physics this year than since 2002. Also the numbers show that more girls entered physics this year than any since 1999, while entries from girls for chemistry and biology are at their highest ever.
You can access the two releases; GCSE and equivalent results and A level and other level 3 results in England and all the data tables by using the links below.
Plans to replace GCSEs in favour of the "EBacc" have proved controversial. As education secretary Michael Gove unveiled plans earlier this year for changes to the exam system in English secondary schools, academic experts voiced their misgivings by commenting that "less academically gifted pupils could be left behind."
The provisional GCSE and equivalent results figures published today by the Department for Education (DfE) show that despite the rise in the number of students in England taking the EBacc, the proportion of pupils that entered all of the required subjects and then went on to pass the qualification has fallen to 64% compared to 70% in 2011/12.
In total, the proportion of students scoring five or more GCSEs or
equivalent at grade A* to C, including English and maths, has dropped from 59.4% to 58.6% according to today's release. Here are some more key points:
EBacc
The EBacc, a performance measure made up of English, maths, history or geography, the sciences and a language, was taken by 35% of all state school pupils this year - up from 23% last year which equates to 72,000 more students on the year.The percentage of all state school pupils achieving the EBacc rose from 16% in 2012 to 23% in 2013. Today's release also provides us with a breakdown by local authority; more than 40% of pupils in Kingston, Richmond and Sutton achieved the EBacc.
Despite the popularity of the EBacc in some areas in in England, the figures suggest it is a different story in other parts of the country. Fewer than 20% of pupils entered the EBacc in Middlesbrough, Sandwell, Knowsley and Barnsley.
Languages are making a comeback
Almost half (48%) of state-school pupils entered languages this year – up from 40% last year. This is the highest proportion of pupils taking languages for seven years. Spanish proved the most popular (up by 31% on the year) whilst French and German both recorded rises, 19% and 10% respectively.History and geography are pretty popular too
The proportion of pupils entering history or geography was 60%, an increase of 10% on last year. According to the DfE, this was the highest proportion of pupils entering geography since 2003.How do results differ by school type?
Convertor academies come out top for results when compared to all state-funded schools, with 67.9% of pupils achieving five or more A* to C grades in GCSEs or equivalent (including English and maths). These results are 9.1% higher than those for local authority (LA) maintained schools.What do the A-level results show?
The stand out headlines from the 2013 A-level results are that the proportion of students choosing facilitating subjects has risen, science is enjoying unprecedented popularity and more girls than ever before entered both maths and further maths this year.The Russell Group, to which prestigious universities such as Oxford and Cambridge belong to, publish a list of 'facilitating subjects' in a publication entitled Informed Choices. According to the publication these consist of mathematics and further mathematics, English literature, physics, biology, chemistry, geography, history and languages (classical and modern). 41% of A level students took exams in two or more of these subjects this year - up by 35% in 2008.
Science has proved a draw to A-level students with the number of pupils entering A-level sciences at record levels. This year, 7.4% of pupils entered biology (the highest since 1996), 6.1% chemistry (again the highest since 1996) and a higher proportion of students entered physics this year than since 2002. Also the numbers show that more girls entered physics this year than any since 1999, while entries from girls for chemistry and biology are at their highest ever.
You can access the two releases; GCSE and equivalent results and A level and other level 3 results in England and all the data tables by using the links below.
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Local Authority
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Number of end of key stage 4 pupils
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5+A*-C grades, %
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5+ A*-C including English & mathematics GCSEs,%
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5+A*-G grades, %
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GCSE or iGCSE English & mathematics at A*-C, % entered
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GCSE or iGCSE English & mathematics at A*-C, % achieved
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North East | 28,803 | 87.5 | 58.8 | 95.4 | 96.2 | 59.2 |
| County Durham | 5,469 | 90.9 | 62.6 | 96.5 | 96.7 | 62.9 |
| Darlington | 1,158 | 90.2 | 64.8 | 95.6 | 97.0 | 64.9 |
| Gateshead | 2,179 | 89.4 | 60.9 | 94.5 | 96.3 | 61.2 |
| Hartlepool | 1,167 | 78.8 | 57.2 | 95.3 | 96.9 | 58.2 |
| Middlesbrough | 1,509 | 83.4 | 50.1 | 94.3 | 94.7 | 50.4 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 2,584 | 89.7 | 56.0 | 94.4 | 95.3 | 56.4 |
| North Tyneside | 2,151 | 89.8 | 63.9 | 96.3 | 96.0 | 64.2 |
| Northumberland | 3,587 | 83.9 | 55.0 | 94.2 | 95.8 | 55.3 |
| Redcar and Cleveland | 1,846 | 82.7 | 55.0 | 94.7 | 96.5 | 55.3 |
| South Tyneside | 1,736 | 92.9 | 59.0 | 97.4 | 97.0 | 59.3 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 2,182 | 81.0 | 56.7 | 94.9 | 94.8 | 57.6 |
| Sunderland | 3,235 | 89.3 | 60.0 | 95.4 | 96.6 | 60.5 |
| North West | 80,352 | 83.1 | 59.6 | 95.6 | 96.8 | 60.4 |
| Blackburn with Darwen | 1,790 | 77.7 | 59.2 | 95.6 | 95.9 | 60.9 |
| Blackpool | 1,654 | 79.2 | 45.9 | 94.9 | 94.8 | 46.3 |
| Bolton | 3,534 | 85.5 | 60.4 | 96.2 | 97.6 | 61.3 |
| Bury | 2,202 | 83.2 | 62.0 | 97.6 | 97.5 | 62.4 |
| Cheshire East | 4,109 | 84.1 | 62.2 | 97.4 | 98.7 | 62.7 |
| Cheshire West and Chester | 3,836 | 82.4 | 62.9 | 95.8 | 97.2 | 63.6 |
| Cumbria | 5,737 | 80.4 | 56.3 | 96.0 | 96.4 | 57.1 |
| Halton | 1,428 | 86.3 | 62.2 | 95.4 | 96.1 | 63.0 |
| Knowsley | 1,390 | 74.5 | 43.5 | 90.3 | 93.5 | 44.3 |
| Lancashire | 13,240 | 82.6 | 60.9 | 95.8 | 96.6 | 61.6 |
| Liverpool | 5,116 | 84.2 | 55.7 | 94.4 | 96.0 | 56.7 |
| Manchester | 4,541 | 80.6 | 52.6 | 92.3 | 95.1 | 53.2 |
| Oldham | 3,105 | 83.8 | 56.6 | 95.7 | 96.8 | 57.6 |
| Rochdale | 2,436 | 81.3 | 56.2 | 95.0 | 97.1 | 57.2 |
| Salford | 2,245 | 84.2 | 54.2 | 95.9 | 96.2 | 54.7 |
| Sefton | 3,483 | 86.1 | 60.7 | 96.0 | 97.7 | 61.2 |
| St. Helens | 1,942 | 86.7 | 55.4 | 96.4 | 97.1 | 55.8 |
| Stockport | 2,986 | 84.6 | 65.5 | 95.5 | 97.1 | 66.4 |
| Tameside | 2,716 | 82.7 | 59.1 | 95.4 | 96.4 | 60.0 |
| Trafford | 2,913 | 88.5 | 70.3 | 97.4 | 98.0 | 70.9 |
| Warrington | 2,456 | 83.1 | 65.4 | 96.4 | 97.9 | 66.8 |
| Wigan | 3,763 | 81.3 | 63.2 | 96.5 | 97.9 | 64.3 |
| Wirral | 3,730 | 86.4 | 65.9 | 96.2 | 97.1 | 66.9 |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | 58,349 | 84.2 | 59.1 | 96.0 | 97.1 | 59.7 |
| Barnsley | 2,558 | 77.6 | 50.1 | 95.5 | 98.0 | 50.8 |
| Bradford | 5,632 | 83.0 | 52.6 | 95.0 | 96.7 | 53.2 |
| Calderdale | 2,607 | 90.8 | 65.3 | 97.9 | 98.2 | 65.4 |
| Doncaster | 3,442 | 86.1 | 56.1 | 95.6 | 96.8 | 56.6 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | 3,882 | 82.8 | 60.9 | 97.6 | 98.2 | 61.6 |
| Kingston upon Hull, City of | 2,460 | 87.8 | 49.6 | 95.9 | 96.4 | 49.8 |
| Kirklees | 4,639 | 83.7 | 62.0 | 97.3 | 98.1 | 62.9 |
| Leeds | 7,852 | 85.7 | 56.6 | 95.3 | 96.7 | 57.1 |
| North East Lincolnshire | 1,846 | 87.0 | 58.3 | 94.5 | 96.2 | 58.5 |
| North Lincolnshire | 1,953 | 88.8 | 56.2 | 97.1 | 98.0 | 56.5 |
| North Yorkshire | 6,780 | 83.8 | 65.0 | 97.4 | 97.7 | 65.6 |
| Rotherham | 3,503 | 84.4 | 63.1 | 95.4 | 96.3 | 63.6 |
| Sheffield | 5,537 | 75.7 | 56.8 | 93.3 | 95.3 | 58.4 |
| Wakefield | 3,931 | 88.5 | 65.9 | 96.0 | 97.4 | 66.1 |
| York | 1,727 | 86.6 | 67.0 | 98.1 | 98.4 | 67.6 |
| East Midlands | 50,241 | 82.3 | 58.7 | 95.7 | 96.6 | 59.4 |
| Derby | 2,948 | 81.0 | 55.2 | 95.5 | 96.2 | 56.4 |
| Derbyshire | 8,384 | 81.1 | 58.6 | 96.3 | 97.4 | 59.4 |
| Leicester | 3,491 | 79.2 | 54.1 | 93.2 | 94.4 | 54.5 |
| Leicestershire | 7,282 | 81.8 | 59.3 | 96.2 | 97.3 | 60.0 |
| Lincolnshire | 8,280 | 84.3 | 61.6 | 96.6 | 97.3 | 62.3 |
| Northamptonshire | 7,985 | 79.6 | 57.8 | 95.3 | 96.3 | 58.9 |
| Nottingham | 2,720 | 77.5 | 47.5 | 90.2 | 91.1 | 48.2 |
| Nottinghamshire | 8,678 | 87.9 | 62.4 | 96.6 | 97.4 | 62.8 |
| Rutland | 473 | 81.6 | 66.8 | 98.9 | 99.4 | 68.1 |
| West Midlands | 64,497 | 85.2 | 59.3 | 96.2 | 96.5 | 59.8 |
| Birmingham | 12,480 | 87.1 | 59.4 | 96.4 | 95.9 | 60.0 |
| Coventry | 3,594 | 87.3 | 56.2 | 96.1 | 96.7 | 56.6 |
| Dudley | 3,933 | 81.0 | 59.4 | 96.2 | 96.7 | 60.1 |
| Herefordshire, County of | 1,831 | 84.2 | 55.5 | 96.2 | 95.2 | 55.8 |
| Sandwell | 3,679 | 86.9 | 53.1 | 96.1 | 96.9 | 53.3 |
| Shropshire | 3,258 | 78.7 | 60.1 | 96.9 | 97.5 | 60.7 |
| Solihull | 3,030 | 89.4 | 66.8 | 97.7 | 98.4 | 67.2 |
| Staffordshire | 9,704 | 83.7 | 59.3 | 96.1 | 96.9 | 60.1 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 2,641 | 81.9 | 46.6 | 94.7 | 93.3 | 47.1 |
| Telford and Wrekin | 2,098 | 87.9 | 58.3 | 95.9 | 96.4 | 58.5 |
| Walsall | 3,461 | 86.7 | 57.7 | 94.6 | 96.1 | 58.2 |
| Warwickshire | 6,058 | 86.0 | 65.0 | 96.8 | 97.1 | 65.4 |
| Wolverhampton | 2,672 | 86.8 | 60.1 | 94.8 | 95.3 | 60.3 |
| Worcestershire | 6,058 | 83.8 | 62.5 | 96.2 | 97.3 | 63.2 |
| East | 65,019 | 79.2 | 59.5 | 95.7 | 96.7 | 60.5 |
| Bedford | 1,891 | 80.0 | 58.8 | 95.7 | 97.8 | 59.9 |
| Cambridgeshire | 6,066 | 78.9 | 60.8 | 94.7 | 95.9 | 62.3 |
| Central Bedfordshire | 2,846 | 80.5 | 57.6 | 95.7 | 96.3 | 58.2 |
| Essex | 15,709 | 79.8 | 60.1 | 95.2 | 96.8 | 61.1 |
| Hertfordshire | 12,973 | 83.7 | 66.1 | 96.9 | 97.3 | 66.9 |
| Luton | 2,441 | 83.9 | 58.2 | 96.6 | 97.3 | 59.2 |
| Norfolk | 8,948 | 70.7 | 53.9 | 95.7 | 96.6 | 55.1 |
| Peterborough | 2,251 | 85.9 | 55.8 | 94.6 | 96.1 | 56.7 |
| Southend-on-Sea | 2,230 | 81.7 | 61.7 | 92.9 | 94.7 | 62.3 |
| Suffolk | 7,813 | 73.3 | 54.4 | 95.6 | 96.8 | 55.5 |
| Thurrock | 1,851 | 87.5 | 59.2 | 97.1 | 97.4 | 59.6 |
| London | 76,683 | 83.8 | 64.4 | 96.2 | 96.8 | 65.3 |
| Inner London | 24,521 | 81.9 | 62.2 | 95.6 | 96.4 | 63.3 |
| Camden | 1,520 | 76.3 | 59.1 | 95.2 | 96.1 | 60.8 |
| City of London | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| Hackney | 1,657 | 79.2 | 60.4 | 95.1 | 95.2 | 61.4 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 1,161 | 83.0 | 66.0 | 96.0 | 97.2 | 66.2 |
| Haringey | 2,194 | 82.5 | 63.0 | 94.3 | 95.5 | 63.9 |
| Islington | 1,439 | 82.2 | 63.0 | 96.9 | 97.4 | 64.4 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 612 | 92.0 | 80.1 | 96.7 | 96.9 | 80.1 |
| Lambeth | 1,892 | 84.7 | 65.1 | 94.8 | 96.6 | 66.5 |
| Lewisham | 2,349 | 78.2 | 57.3 | 94.1 | 95.7 | 58.7 |
| Newham | 3,521 | 78.2 | 57.1 | 96.3 | 96.9 | 57.9 |
| Southwark | 2,355 | 84.6 | 64.6 | 95.3 | 96.3 | 66.2 |
| Tower Hamlets | 2,526 | 85.2 | 63.5 | 97.2 | 97.3 | 64.0 |
| Wandsworth | 1,869 | 81.9 | 59.4 | 94.1 | 95.0 | 60.7 |
| Westminster | 1,426 | 86.2 | 68.7 | 98.4 | 97.8 | 69.8 |
| Outer London | 52,162 | 84.6 | 65.4 | 96.5 | 97.0 | 66.2 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 2,232 | 81.8 | 59.3 | 94.0 | 95.2 | 60.0 |
| Barnet | 3,527 | 85.7 | 70.1 | 96.2 | 96.1 | 70.6 |
| Bexley | 3,205 | 88.4 | 65.9 | 97.1 | 98.0 | 66.2 |
| Brent | 2,906 | 80.8 | 62.4 | 95.9 | 96.6 | 63.2 |
| Bromley | 3,423 | 92.7 | 73.6 | 97.9 | 98.4 | 74.3 |
| Croydon | 3,770 | 85.0 | 64.2 | 96.5 | 96.8 | 65.1 |
| Ealing | 2,882 | 79.5 | 60.8 | 96.3 | 97.1 | 61.7 |
| Enfield | 3,794 | 80.6 | 62.8 | 95.8 | 96.6 | 64.3 |
| Greenwich | 2,159 | 88.9 | 64.0 | 96.5 | 96.2 | 64.5 |
| Harrow | 2,171 | 81.6 | 64.8 | 97.1 | 97.3 | 65.9 |
| Havering | 3,048 | 78.6 | 63.3 | 97.2 | 97.8 | 65.2 |
| Hillingdon | 3,048 | 85.8 | 60.9 | 96.2 | 97.0 | 61.5 |
| Hounslow | 2,734 | 86.2 | 65.8 | 97.2 | 97.4 | 66.5 |
| Kingston upon Thames | 1,589 | 86.7 | 71.1 | 95.4 | 96.3 | 71.6 |
| Merton | 1,608 | 85.1 | 62.1 | 94.9 | 94.9 | 62.7 |
| Redbridge | 3,438 | 86.4 | 69.7 | 96.9 | 97.4 | 70.3 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 1,330 | 84.1 | 67.4 | 96.1 | 97.0 | 68.3 |
| Sutton | 2,693 | 91.2 | 77.0 | 97.5 | 98.0 | 77.4 |
| Waltham Forest | 2,605 | 77.9 | 55.9 | 97.0 | 96.7 | 57.0 |
| South East | 89,757 | 82.0 | 62.0 | 95.7 | 96.6 | 62.9 |
| Bracknell Forest | 1,081 | 89.7 | 54.6 | 96.9 | 88.2 | 54.9 |
| Brighton and Hove | 2,294 | 78.1 | 61.6 | 94.2 | 95.6 | 63.1 |
| Buckinghamshire | 5,556 | 84.8 | 71.2 | 96.9 | 97.7 | 71.9 |
| East Sussex | 5,357 | 82.1 | 59.6 | 95.1 | 97.0 | 60.4 |
| Hampshire | 13,950 | 78.7 | 59.6 | 96.1 | 97.1 | 60.5 |
| Isle of Wight | 1,484 | 68.3 | 48.5 | 91.6 | 94.3 | 50.5 |
| Kent | 16,773 | 86.1 | 62.6 | 95.7 | 96.8 | 63.2 |
| Medway | 3,242 | 88.0 | 60.5 | 95.3 | 96.9 | 60.8 |
| Milton Keynes | 2,778 | 88.2 | 59.9 | 96.6 | 96.5 | 60.4 |
| Oxfordshire | 6,262 | 76.7 | 60.3 | 95.8 | 96.7 | 61.3 |
| Portsmouth | 1,863 | 64.6 | 47.1 | 90.0 | 91.8 | 48.3 |
| Reading | 1,093 | 88.8 | 63.5 | 96.5 | 96.5 | 63.8 |
| Slough | 1,671 | 92.4 | 71.4 | 97.5 | 97.9 | 71.7 |
| Southampton | 2,090 | 81.7 | 57.6 | 94.7 | 96.8 | 58.4 |
| Surrey | 10,666 | 83.2 | 67.2 | 96.1 | 96.7 | 68.4 |
| West Berkshire | 1,982 | 76.5 | 61.2 | 96.7 | 97.0 | 62.1 |
| West Sussex | 8,298 | 78.8 | 59.6 | 95.2 | 96.3 | 60.4 |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | 1,620 | 86.5 | 67.8 | 97.5 | 98.2 | 68.9 |
| Wokingham | 1,697 | 84.8 | 70.4 | 96.6 | 97.1 | 71.9 |
| South West | 56,378 | 79.4 | 59.1 | 95.9 | 96.3 | 60.1 |
| Bath and North East Somerset | 2,216 | 82.0 | 63.3 | 95.6 | 96.9 | 64.0 |
| Bournemouth | 1,727 | 85.9 | 62.8 | 95.7 | 95.4 | 64.0 |
| Bristol, City of | 3,249 | 80.4 | 51.5 | 92.0 | 93.4 | 52.0 |
| Cornwall | 5,858 | 77.1 | 59.2 | 96.9 | 97.2 | 60.7 |
| Devon | 7,731 | 77.7 | 59.3 | 96.2 | 96.9 | 60.3 |
| Dorset | 4,360 | 75.8 | 58.7 | 97.2 | 97.6 | 59.8 |
| Gloucestershire | 6,764 | 82.4 | 61.6 | 96.4 | 95.1 | 62.4 |
| Isles of Scilly | 21 | 85.7 | 81.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 81.0 |
| North Somerset | 2,250 | 76.6 | 58.0 | 95.6 | 96.7 | 58.7 |
| Plymouth | 2,840 | 84.8 | 60.6 | 95.7 | 96.8 | 61.4 |
| Poole | 1,648 | 79.6 | 62.2 | 95.5 | 97.4 | 63.6 |
| Somerset | 5,582 | 78.9 | 57.9 | 96.4 | 97.3 | 58.6 |
| South Gloucestershire | 3,115 | 79.7 | 56.5 | 95.2 | 96.0 | 57.2 |
| Swindon | 2,268 | 74.9 | 55.3 | 94.8 | 96.4 | 56.6 |
| Torbay | 1,469 | 80.5 | 60.7 | 96.4 | 97.5 | 61.5 |
| Wiltshire | 5,280 | 79.6 | 60.6 | 96.2 | 94.5 | 61.3 |
| Total (State-funded sector) | 570,079 | 82.7 | 60.4 | 95.8 | 96.7 | 61.1 |
| England | 635,078 | 81.1 | 58.6 | 93.9 | 92.9 | 59.4 |
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