Type of school
- AC
- Academy, publicly funded independent schools offering free education to pupils of all abilities, established by sponsors from business, faith or voluntary groups working in partnership with central Government and local education partners.
- CTC
- City Technology College or City College for the Technology of the Arts, independent all-ability, non fee-paying school offering pupils the opportunity to study a curriculum geared, with the help of private sector sponsors, towards the world of work.
- CY
- Community School maintained by the Local Authority (LA). The LA is the admission authority - it has main responsibility for deciding arrangements for admitting pupils.
- CYS
- Community Special School, maintained by the LA, which is organised to make special educational provision for pupils with special educational needs (SEN).
- FD
- Foundation School maintained by the LA. It may have a foundation (generally religious) that appoints some - but not most - of the governing body. The governing body is the admission authority.
- FDS
- Foundation Special School, maintained by the LA, which is specifically organised to make special educational provision for pupils with SEN.
- VA
- Voluntary Aided school maintained by the LA, with a foundation (generally religious) that appoints most of the governing body. The governing body is the admission authority.
- VC
- Voluntary Controlled school maintained by the LA, with a foundation (generally religious) that appoints some - but not most - of the governing body. The LA is the admissions authority.
Admissions Basis
- COMP
- Comprehensive- takes all pupils, generally regardless of ability (though in some circumstances some comprehensives may selected for a small number of places by aptitude or ability).
- MOD
- Modern- a school, generally in a selective area, which takes pupils regardless of ability.
- SEL
- Selective- a school which takes pupils selected for high ability; also known as a grammar school.
Specialist Schools (as designated under the specialist school programme)
- A
- Arts
- B
- Business and enterprise
- E
- Engineering
- H
- Humanities
- L
- Language
- M
- Mathematics and computing
- Mu
- Music
- S
- Sports
- Sc
- Science
- T
- Technology
- V
- Vocational
- Be
- SEN specialism: Behaviour, emotional and social Development
- Cm
- SEN specialism: Communication and interaction
- Cg
- SEN speacialism: Cognition and learning
- Sp
- SEN specialism: Sensory and physical
- Schools that offer more than one specialism, or those that offer combined and second specialisms, will be shown in the Achievement and Attainment Tables.
Others
- LA
- Local Authority
- R
- The school or college has not confirmed that it has checked the examination results
- B
- The school or college has not confirmed that it has checked the background information
- +
- KS3 test results are unavailable for reasons beyond the school's control. Readers of the Tables should contact the school for full information on estimates of the tests results of the tests results that were expected to be achieved.
- #
- Value added measure has been suppressed because coverage is less than 50%
- N/A
- Not available/Not applicable
- Q
- This data item is under query and will be replaced after investigation.
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