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- LEA
- Local education authority.
- C
- County school maintained by the local education authority (LEA). The LEA is responsible for the school's admissions policy (the policy on offering places to children).
- VA
- Voluntary aided school maintained by the LEA, with a foundation (generally religious) which appoints most of the governing body. The governing body is usually responsible for the school's admissions policy.
- VC
- Voluntary controlled school maintained by the LEA, with a foundation (generally religious) which appoints some - but not most - of the governing body. The LEA is usually responsible for the school's admissions policy.
- SA
- Special agreement school maintained by the LEA, with a foundation (generally religious) which appoints most of the governing body. The governing body is usually responsible for the school's admissions policy.
- GM
- Grant-maintained school. The governing body is responsible for the school's admissions policy.
- MSS
- Special school maintained by the LEA for pupils with learning difficulties, emotional and behavioural difficulties, physical disabilities or who are deaf or blind.
- GMSS
- Grant-maintained special school. The governing body is responsible for the school's admissions policy.
- NMSS
- Non-maintained special school.
- CTC
- City Technology College or City College for the Technology of the Arts.
- IND(SS)
- Independent school approved under the Education Act 1996 to take pupils who have statements of special educational needs.
- IND
- Registered independent school, normally charging fees.
- COMP
- Comprehensive - takes all pupils, usually regardless of their ability, aptitude, or whether they have been selected for a place at a selective school.
- SEL
- Selective - takes pupils depending on their ability or aptitude.
- MOD
- Modern - takes pupils regardless of their ability or aptitude and who have not been selected for a place at a selective school.
- N/A
- Admission policy: Not applicable.
- E
- The school has not confirmed that it has checked the examination results.
- B
- The school has not confirmed that it has checked the background information.
- NON SEL
- Non-selective - independent school which takes pupils usually regardless of their ability or aptitude.
- :
- Less than 0.05%
- NE
- Not Entered
- NIR
- No Information Received
- NA
- Not Applicable
- Feeder school
- Member of sixth form centre/consortia
- New School
- School opened during the 1996/97 academic year.
- Charter Mark
- This institution has been awarded the Charter Mark.
- Fewer than 2 A levels
- Candidates entered for fewer than two GCE A levels or the AS equivalent.
GCE A (Advanced) levels or AS (Advanced Supplementary) equivalents: these examinations are traditional, general qualifications. AS examinations are equal to half a GCE A level. They are at the same academic standard as a GCE A level, but have half the content.
- 2+ A levels
- Candidates entered for two or more GCE A levels or the AS equivalent.
GCE A (Advanced) levels or AS (Advanced Supplementary) equivalents: these examinations are traditional, general qualifications. AS examinations are equal to half a GCE A level. They are at the same academic standard as a GCE A level, but have half the content.
- Vocational qualifications
- Advanced and Intermediate vocational qualifications
- Advanced vocational qualifications
- Candidates in their final year of study for an Advanced General National Vocational Qualification (Advanced GNVQ), a BTEC National qualification (Diploma or Certificate), or the City and Guilds (C&G) Diploma of Vocational Education at National level.
Advanced GNVQs are broadly equal to two GCE A levels. BTEC National Diplomas and Certificates and the C&G Diploma of Vocational Education at National level are also similar in standard to GCE A levels. These are qualifications which can lead to higher education or employment and further training. The tables give the numbers of 16 to 18 year olds in the final year of study for these qualifications in 1996/97, and the percentage of these students who gained the qualifications. Not all school and colleges enter students for vocational qualifications.
- Intermediate vocational qualifications
- Candidates in their final year of study of an Intermediate General National Vocational Qualification (Intermediate GNVQ), a BTEC First qualification (Diploma or Certificate) or the City and Guilds (C& G) Diploma of Vocational Education at Intermediate level.
Intermediate GNVQs are broadly equivalent to 4 GCSEs at grades A*-C. The tables give the number of 16 to 18 year olds in the final year of study for these qualifications in 1996/97, and the percentage of these students who gained the qualifications. Not all school and colleges enter students for vocational qualifications.
- Number entered.
- Fewer than 2 A levels: Number
- Number entered.
- 2+ A levels: Number
- Number entered.
- Advanced vocational qualifications: Number
- Candidates aged 16,17 and 18 at the start of the academic year who were in their final year of study for an Advanced GNVQ, BTEC National qualification (Diploma or Certificate) or City and Guilds Diploma of Vocational Education at National level.
- Advanced vocational qualifications: Percentage
- Percentage of candidates aged 16,17 and 18 at the start of the academic year who were in their final year of study and achieved an Advanced GNVQ, BTEC National qualification (Diploma or Certificate) or City and Guilds Diploma of Vocational Education at National level.
- Intermediate vocational qualifications: Number
- Candidates aged 16,17 and 18 at the start of the academic year who were in their final year of study for an Intermediate GNVQ, BTEC First qualification (Diploma or Certificate) or City and Guilds Diploma of Vocational Education at Intermediate level.
- Intermediate vocational qualifications: Percentage
- Percentage of candidates aged 16,17 and 18 at the start of the academic year who were in their final year of study and achieved an Intermediate GNVQ, BTEC First qualification (Diploma or Certificate) or City and Guilds Diploma of Vocational Education at Intermediate level.
- Fewer than 2 A levels: Average
- This column shows the average point score per candidate. This gives an average which depends on the number of examinations taken by candidates as well as the grades they achieved.
Average point scores
When students apply to universities, each pass grade they have in GCE A or AS examinations scores a certain number of points. The points for each grade are as follows:
Grade GCE A level points AS points
A 10 5
B 8 4
C 6 3
D 4 2
E 2 1
This system has been used to produce an average point score per candidate. This gives an average which depends on the number of examinations taken by candidates as well as the grades they achieved. For example, this is calculated as follows:
Student achieves B grade at GCE A level (8 points)
and B grade at AS (4 points) = 12 points
Ten students do the same = 120 points
Average point score per candidate = 12 points
(120 points in total
divided by 10 students).
- 2+ A levels: Average
- This column shows the average point score per candidate. This gives an average which depends on the number of examinations taken by candidates as well as the grades they achieved.
Average point scores
When students apply to universities, each pass grade they have in GCE A or AS examinations scores a certain number of points. The points for each grade are as follows:
Grade GCE A level points AS points
A 10 5
B 8 4
C 6 3
D 4 2
E 2 1
This system has been used to produce an average point score per candidate. This gives an average which depends on the number of examinations taken by candidates as well as the grades they achieved. For example, this is calculated as follows:
Student achieves B grade at GCE A level (8 points)
and B grade at AS (4 points) = 12 points
Ten students do the same = 120 points
Average point score per candidate = 12 points
(120 points in total
divided by 10 students).
- Advanced vocational qualifications
- The percentage of candidates achieving these qualifications.
- Intermediate vocational qualifications
- The percentage of candidates achieving these qualifications.
- A level average per entry
- This column shows the average point score per examination entry for GCE A level or AS examinations, however many GCE A levels or AS examinations were taken by individual candidates.
GCE A (Advanced) levels or AS (Advanced Supplementary) equivalents: these examinations are traditional, general qualifications. AS examinations are equal to half a GCE A level. They are at the same academic standard as a GCE A level, but have half the content.
Average point scores
When students apply to universities, each pass grade they have in GCE A or AS examinations scores a certain number of points. The points for each grade are as follows:
Grade GCE A level points AS points
A 10 5
B 8 4
C 6 3
D 4 2
E 2 1
This system has been used to produce an average point score per examination entry. This gives an average which does not depend on the number of examinations taken by candidates. The maximum possible point score per entry is 10. For example, this has been calculated as follows:
Student achieves B grade at GCE A level (8 points)
and B grade at AS (4 points) = 12 points
Ten students do the same = 120 points
Number of examination entries = 15
(each GCE A level counts as one entry
and each AS as half an entry)
Average point score per examination entry = 8 points
(120 points in total
divided by 15 entries).
- IB entries
- International Baccalaureate: entries
- IB %achieving
- International Baccalaureate: percentage achieving qualification
- England average
- The average figures for all schools in England including independent schools.
- Lea average
- The average figures for all state schools in each local education authority area, including special schools and CTCs.
- Sixth form centre/consortium
- In some areas, perhaps to pool resources and offer a wider range of post-16 courses to students, some schools co-operate together in a group known as a sixth form centre or consortium. The particular approach may vary, for example, all students from the schools involved in a consortium might study science at one school and languages at another; or a group of schools might choose to put their resources together so that sixth form teachers and students have a separate building.
- Absence: half days missed
- Percentage of half days missed by day pupils - that is, the percentage of the total teaching time available to all day pupils of compulsory school age that was missed. This relates to pupil absences in the 1996/97 school year up to and including 24 May 1997. Boarding pupils are not included.
- Pupils of school age
- Number of day pupils of compulsory school age, that is aged 5 to 16 only.
- Authorised absence
- Authorised absence is absence with permission from a teacher or other authorised representative of the school. This includes instances of absence for which a satisfactory explanation has been provided (eg illness).
- Unauthorised absence
- Unauthorised absence is absence without permission from a teacher or other authorised representative of the school. This includes all unexplained or unjustified absences.
- Pupils aged 15
- Total number of pupils aged 15 at the start of the 1996/97 school year. This includes pupils who did not attempt any GCSE examinations.
- GCSE results
- GCSE results are shown for all the pupils in each school who were aged 15 at the start of the 1996/97 school year. All the results achieved by these pupils in 1996 (and in earlier years if they took GCSEs when they were younger than 15) are included as long as the pupils were on the register at the school. This shows what GCSEs pupils in each school have achieved by the time they reach school-leaving age.
The results of some pupils who took exams early and since moved to a different school or college will be shown against the school where they took their examinations.
Some pupils take their examinations later because of illness, because they are from overseas, or for other reasons. The results of these pupils - aged 16 or over at the start of the 1996/97 school year - are not shown.
There are 8 GCSE pass grades ranging from A* to G. The starred A recognises outstanding achievement and was awarded to pupils for the first time in 1994.
- Vocational qualifications
- Vocational qualifications for 15 year-olds.
For the first time this year there are new arrangements for reporting vocational achievements. The tables concentrate on achievements in approved GNVQs and NVQs and related qualifications - the City and Guilds Diploma of Vocational Education and RSA Initial Awards. For GNVQs and NVQs the results include achievements in both full awards and in units towards the full qualification.
The tables show the number of 15 year-olds taking the courses, and the percentage achieving all the qualifications or units for which they studied in 1996/97. Not all schools enter pupils for vocational qualifications.
- 5+A*-C
- The percentage of 15 year-olds who gained five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C - the standard normally needed to prepare them for study for GCE A/AS level examinations or the more advanced vocational qualifications.
- 5+A*-G
- The percentage of 15 year-olds who gained five or more passes at grades A* to G.
- 1+A*-G
- The percentage of 15 year-olds who gained one or more passes at A* to G. From this you can tell how far the school helped all its pupils to achieve the standard expected in at least one subject by the time they reached school-leaving age.
- Vocational qualifications: number
- Number entered.
- Vocational qualifications: % achieving
- % achieving all the qualifications or units for which they studied in 1996/97.
- Pupils in year 11
- Pupils in Year 11:
Schools were invited (but not required) to provide information on the GCSE results for all pupils in Year 11. This is the year group, sometimes known as the "fifth form", in which pupils normally take their GCSEs. Most pupils in Year 11 are aged 15 at the start of the school year, but in some schools there are younger pupils and older pupils in this year.
- Number
- Number of pupils in Year 11, in the 1996/97 school year, regardless of their age.
- 5+A*-C
- Percentage of these pupils who gained five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C.
- Pupils (all age)
- Total number of pupils of all ages on the school register on 16 January 1997.
- Pupils aged 16+
- Number of pupils aged 16 and over. This gives an indication of the size of a school's sixth form.
- Pupils with statements
- Total number of pupils with statements of special educational needs. These statements describe any learning difficulties which pupils have, and specify the extra help or equipment which they need. Around 2% to 3% of school pupils nationally have statements.
If a school has a large proportion of pupils with special needs, its examination results may appear lower than expected.
- Pupils without statements
- Total number of pupils with special needs, but without statements. These are other pupils registered as having special educational needs but whose schools meet the pupils' needs without a statement.
If a school has a large proportion of pupils with special needs, its examination results may appear lower than expected.
- Q
- This data item is under query and will be replaced after investigation
- 1994 - GCSE 5+A*-C
- % of 15 year old pupils achieving 5 or more grades A*-C in 1994
- 1995 - GCSE 5+A*-C
- % of 15 year old pupils achieving 5 or more grades A*-C in 1995
- 1996 - GCSE 5+A*-C
- % of 15 year old pupils achieving 5 or more grades A*-C in 1996
- 1997 - GCSE 5+A*-C
- % of 15 year old pupils achieving 5 or more grades A*-C in 1997
- 1994 - GCSE 1+A*-G
- % of 15 year old pupils achieving 1 or more grades A*-G in 1994
- 1995 - GCSE 1+A*-G
- % of 15 year old pupils achieving 1 or more grades A*-G in 1995
- 1996 - GCSE 1+A*-G
- % of 15 year old pupils achieving 1 or more grades A*-G in 1996
- 1997 - GCSE 1+A*-G
- % of 15 year old pupils achieving 1 or more grades A*-G in 1997
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