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England > North West Region

Literacy and numeracy at age 11

• Key Stage 2 Results: Percentage of Pupils achieving Level 4 or above
• National Indicator 76: Reduction in the number of schools where fewer than 55% of pupils achieve level 4 or above in both English and Maths at KS2
• National Indicator 93: Percentage of pupils progressing by 2 levels in English between Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
• National Indicator 94: Percentage of pupils progressing by 2 levels in Maths between Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2

Key Stage 2 Results: Percentage of Pupils achieving Level 4 or above

	English			Maths			Science
	1997	2007	% points difference	1997	2007	% points difference	1997	2007	% points difference
Altrincham and Sale West Constituency	75	89	14	70	88	18	76	95	19
Ashton under Lyne Constituency	57	80	23	55	78	23	66	89	23
Barrow and Furness Constituency	64	83	19	63	84	21	71	93	22
Birkenhead Constituency	55	77	22	51	75	24	61	87	26
Blackburn Constituency	56	76	20	54	73	19	59	84	25
Blackpool North and Fleetwood Constituency	68	76	8	69	75	6	74	85	11
Blackpool South Constituency	56	77	21	55	76	21	58	88	30
Bolton North East Constituency	61	81	20	62	77	15	65	88	23
Bolton South East Constituency	57	80	23	55	75	20	60	85	25
Bolton West Constituency	75	85	10	73	81	8	78	91	13
Bootle Constituency	59	81	22	58	76	18	67	86	19
Burnley Constituency	59	72	13	59	70	11	56	83	27
Bury North Constituency	74	83	9	76	83	7	79	90	11
Bury South Constituency	69	83	14	71	80	9	73	89	16
Carlisle Constituency	63	80	17	62	75	13	69	87	18
Cheadle Constituency	80	88	8	80	85	5	82	94	12
Chorley Constituency	71	86	15	73	84	11	78	91	13
City of Chester Constituency	67	81	14	68	75	7	73	87	14
Congleton Constituency	73	90	17	73	86	13	79	93	14
Copeland Constituency	59	82	23	60	80	20	66	91	25
Crewe and Nantwich Constituency	65	81	16	67	79	12	71	86	15
Crosby Constituency	77	88	11	80	86	6	85	94	9
Denton and Reddish Constituency	57	82	25	57	77	20	65	89	24
Eccles Constituency	64	79	15	67	79	12	74	90	16
Eddisbury Constituency	68	82	14	70	81	11	74	89	15
Ellesmere Port and Neston Constituency	63	80	17	63	77	14	71	89	18
Fylde Constituency	74	86	12	73	84	11	77	92	15
Halton Constituency	63	83	20	59	78	19	66	89	23
Hazel Grove Constituency	69	85	16	70	83	13	77	92	15
Heywood and Middleton Constituency	61	81	20	61	80	19	73	88	15
Hyndburn Constituency	59	79	20	59	75	16	60	85	25
Knowsley North and Sefton East Constituency	59	79	20	59	77	18	67	88	21
Knowsley South Constituency	58	81	23	60	78	18	64	90	26
Lancaster and Wyre Constituency	74	89	15	77	86	9	78	93	15
Leigh Constituency	65	82	17	66	81	15	72	90	18
Liverpool, Garston Constituency	58	78	20	59	74	15	63	83	20
Liverpool, Riverside Constituency	53	69	16	52	66	14	56	77	21
Liverpool, Walton  Constituency	54	76	22	55	73	18	62	87	25
Liverpool, Wavertree Constituency	62	83	21	60	80	20	67	88	21
Liverpool, West Derby  Constituency	54	75	21	48	71	23	55	84	29
Macclesfield Constituency	76	86	10	74	84	10	78	92	14
Makerfield Constituency	64	79	15	66	81	15	75	89	14
Manchester, Blackley Constituency	59	73	14	62	73	11	66	84	18
Manchester, Central  Constituency	48	73	25	49	74	25	54	85	31
Manchester, Gorton Constituency	53	73	20	49	72	23	54	84	30
Manchester, Withington Constituency	64	81	17	65	81	16	69	89	20
Morecambe and Lunesdale Constituency	63	79	16	64	78	14	70	87	17
Oldham East and Saddleworth Constituency	61	83	22	63	82	19	68	89	21
Oldham West and Royton Constituency	53	76	23	53	74	21	60	83	23
Pendle Constituency	61	75	14	60	72	12	65	82	17
Penrith and The Border Constituency	72	86	14	71	82	11	75	91	16
Preston Constituency	53	74	21	52	73	21	59	84	25
Ribble Valley Constituency	76	89	13	75	87	12	80	94	14
Rochdale Constituency	54	77	23	56	74	18	64	83	19
Rossendale and Darwen Constituency	64	82	18	65	82	17	69	90	21
Salford Constituency	56	77	21	58	72	14	68	82	14
South Ribble Constituency	72	83	11	72	83	11	76	91	15
Southport Constituency	76	84	8	74	84	10	81	93	12
St. Helens North Constituency	67	83	16	62	80	18	74	91	17
St. Helens South Constituency	63	79	16	63	79	16	70	88	18
Stalybridge and Hyde Constituency	58	82	24	54	77	23	63	89	26
Stockport Constituency	63	81	18	64	76	12	67	87	20
Stretford and Urmston Constituency	62	84	22	57	80	23	63	88	25
Tatton Constituency	73	88	15	72	86	14	76	92	16
Wallasey Constituency	61	78	17	61	73	12	64	88	24
Warrington North Constituency	64	80	16	63	79	16	71	89	18
Warrington South Constituency	67	89	22	65	85	20	67	95	28
Weaver Vale Constituency	65	82	17	65	78	13	70	88	18
West Lancashire Constituency	66	81	15	70	81	11	73	91	18
Westmorland and Lonsdale Constituency	73	87	14	73	84	11	79	93	14
Wigan Constituency	61	84	23	60	81	21	74	89	15
Wirral South Constituency	76	88	12	72	83	11	78	92	14
Wirral West Constituency	73	86	13	71	79	8	74	90	16
Workington Constituency	65	79	14	67	77	10	76	89	13
Worsley Constituency	61	81	20	63	79	16	70	90	20
Wythenshawe and Sale East Constituency	54	75	21	51	73	22	58	84	26
North West Region	63	81	18	63	79	16	69	88	19
England	63	80	17	62	77	15	68	88	20

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National Indicator 76: Reduction in the number of schools where fewer than 55% of pupils achieve level 4 or above in both English and Maths at KS2

	2005		2007
	Total number of schools	Schools <55%	Total number of schools	Schools <55%
North West Region	2,264	349	2,220	288
England	13,565	2,283	13,439	1,797

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National Indicator 93: Percentage of pupils progressing by 2 levels in English between Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2

	2005	2007	% points difference
North West Region	78.9	83.9	5.0
England	78	83.6	5.6

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National Indicator 94: Percentage of pupils progressing by 2 levels in Maths between Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2

	2005	2007	% points difference
North West Region	75	77.3	2.3
England	73.3	75.9	2.6

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National Summary

Final figures for 2007 show that 80 per cent of 11 year olds reached the required standard in English up from 63 per cent in 1997. In Mathematics 77 per cent of 11 year olds reached the required standard up from 62 per cent in 1997. In Science 88 per cent of 11 year olds reached the required standard up from 68 per cent in 1997.

In 2007 the number of schools where fewer than 55 per cent of pupils achieve level 4 or above in both English and Maths at Key Stage 2 was 1,797. This compares with 2,283 in 2005.

In 2007 83.6 per cent of pupils progressed by 2 levels in English between Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. This compares with 78.0 per cent in 2005.

In 2007 75.9 per cent of pupils progressed by 2 levels in Mathematics between Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. This compares with 73.3 per cent in 2005.

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