Data set from 16-19 destination measures

16-19 study leavers institution level destinations

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Published 15 October 2026

Last updated 15 October 2026

16 to 19 study leavers' institution level destinations data by location, student characteristics and provider type and qualification level

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Data set details

• Theme: Destination of pupils and students
• Publication: 16-19 destination measures
• Release: Academic year 2024/25
• Number of rows: 224,328
• Geographic levels: School
• Indicators:
  • Activity not captured
  • Further education
  • Not recorded as a sustained destination
• Filters:
  • Data type
  • Establishment type
  • Qualification level group
• Time period: 2021/22 to 2023/24

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	local_authority_selection_status	school_laestab	school_urn	school_name	admission_policy	entry_gender	establishment_type_group	establishment_type	cohort_level_group	cohort_level	breakdown_topic	breakdown	data_type	version	cohort_count	overall	education	he	fe	other_edu	appren	all_work	all_notsust	all_unknown
202122	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	840	E06000047	County Durham	None	8408004	130659	New College Durham	Not collected	Mixed	State-funded mainstream colleges	Further Education Sector Institution	All other qualifications	Total	Disadvantage status	Not known to be disadvantaged	Percentage	Revised	160	62.5	8.1	c	c	c	17.5	36.9	25.6	11.9
202122	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	840	E06000047	County Durham	None	8408008	131859	East Durham College	Not collected	Mixed	State-funded mainstream colleges	Further Education Sector Institution	All other qualifications	Total	Disadvantage status	Disadvantaged	Percentage	Revised	89	48.3	23.6	0	23.6	0	6.7	18	49.4	2.2
202122	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	840	E06000047	County Durham	None	8408008	131859	East Durham College	Not collected	Mixed	State-funded mainstream colleges	Further Education Sector Institution	Level 2	Total	Disadvantage status	Not known to be disadvantaged	Percentage	Revised	73	57.5	8.2	0	8.2	0	11	38.4	32.9	9.6
202122	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	841	E06000005	Darlington	None	8414603	137622	Carmel College	Non selective	Mixed	State-funded mainstream schools	Academy - Converter Mainstream	Level 3	Total	Total	Total	Number of students	Revised	168	156	108	104	3	1	13	35	9	3
202122	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000008	South East	845	E10000011	East Sussex	None	8454028	114587	Heathfield Community College	Non selective	Mixed	State-funded mainstream schools	Community School	All other qualifications	Total	Sex	Female	Percentage	Revised	2	c	0	0	0	0	0	c	c	c

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 14 variables

Variable name	Variable description
all_notsust	Not recorded as a sustained destination
all_unknown	Activity not captured
all_work	Sustained employment destination
appren	Sustained apprenticeships
breakdown	Student characteristics

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Footnotes

1. State-funded mainstream colleges includes sixth-form colleges and other further education colleges.
2. 'Not sustained destination' includes pupils who were captured in the source data and had some participation in the academic year but did not complete the required six months sustained participation.
3. Other education destinations include school sixth forms, sixth-form colleges, independent schools, specialist post-16 institutions, special schools and education combination destinations.
4. Special schools group include all types of special schools due to the small numbers of schools.
5. Activity not being captured means the student was not found to have any participation in education, apprenticeship or employment nor recorded as receiving out-of-work benefits at any point in the year. Possible reasons for this could be that the pupil was living, working or studying abroad or was attending a Scottish or Welsh college or school.
6. Please note data for independent schools has much lower coverage than state-funded schools. This is likely to be due to difficulties linking their education records to employment data.
7. Reforms to technical and applied qualifications mean that the makeup of level 3 and level 2 approved qualification groups differ significantly between destination years 2017/18, 2018/19 and 2019/20. Comparisons across years and approved/other qualification groups should therefore be made with particular caution.
8. 'Other qualifications' are qualifications that are not included elsewhere in the 16-19 attainment performance measures

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