Data set from Key stage 4 destination measures

Key stage 4 leavers local authority level destinations

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Published 16 October 2025

Last updated 16 October 2025

Key stage 4 study leavers local authority level destinations data by location, student characteristics, provider type and qualification level

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Data set details

• Theme: Destination of pupils and students
• Publication: Key stage 4 destination measures
• Release: Academic year 2023/24
• Number of rows: 188,650
• Geographic levels: Local authority, Local authority district, Parliamentary constituency, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Activity not captured
  • Advanced and Higher apprenticeships (level 3 and above)
  • Further education
• Filters:
  • Data type
  • Institution group
  • Student characteristic
• Time period: 2016/17 to 2022/23

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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	pcon_code	pcon_name	lad_code	lad_name	institution_group	institution_type	breakdown_topic	breakdown	data_type	version	cohort	overall	education	fe	ssf	sfc	other_edu	appren	appl3	appl2	all_work	all_notsust	all_unknown
201617	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead					Alternative provision	Total	Total	Total	Number of students	Revised	58	30	27	22	1	0	4	1	0	1	2	18	10
201617	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead					Alternative provision	Total	Total	Total	Percentage	Revised	58	51.7	46.6	37.9	1.7	0.0	6.9	1.7	0.0	1.7	3.4	31.0	17.2
201617	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead					State-funded (inc. non-maintained) special	Total	Total	Total	Number of students	Revised	60	54	52	19	0	0	33	0	0	0	2	4	2
201617	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead					State-funded (inc. non-maintained) special	Total	Total	Total	Percentage	Revised	60	90.0	86.7	31.7	0.0	0.0	55.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.3	6.7	3.3
201617	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead					State-funded mainstream and special	Total	Disadvantage Status	Disadvantaged	Number of students	Revised	565	470	435	285	125	0	25	20	low	20	15	80	15

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 16 variables

Variable name	Variable description
all_notsust	Not recorded as a sustained destination
all_unknown	Activity not captured
all_work	Sustained employment destination
appl2	Intermediate apprenticeships (level 2)
appl3	Advanced and Higher apprenticeships (level 3 and above)

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Footnotes

1. Disadvantaged pupils include pupils known to be eligible for free school meals (FSM) in any spring, autumn, summer, alternative provision or pupil referral unit census from year 6 to year 11, or that are looked after children for at least one day, or are adopted from care.
2. Other education destinations include independent schools, specialist post-16 institutions, special schools and education combination destination.
3. Following special educational needs and disability (SEND) reforms in 2014/15, SEN pupils are categorised as 'SEN with a statement or Education, health and care (EHC) plan' and 'SEN support'. SEN support replaces school action and school action plus (grouped as SEN without a statement up to and including 2013/14). It was expected that all transfers to this category take place during the 2014/15 academic year but some legacy categories remain in subsequent cohorts. More detailed information on the reforms can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-code-of-practice-0-to-25.
4. The state-funded mainstream & special schools total include local authority maintained schools, academies, free schools, city technology colleges, further education colleges with provision for 14- to 16-year-olds, state-funded special schools and non-maintained special schools.
5. Alternative provision includes state place funded alternative provision (Pupil Referral Units, AP academies, AP free schools, and hospital schools) and other alternative provision (education funded by the local authority outside of state place funded schools, including independent schools, non-maintained special schools, and providers that do not meet the criteria for registration as a school).
6. Unclassified includes pupils for whom ethnicity or first language was not obtained, refused or could not be determined.
7. 'State-funded (inc. non-maintained) special schools' includes all state-funded special schools (including community special schools, foundation special schools, special sponsored academies, special converter academies and special free schools) and non-maintained special schools.
8. 'Not recorded as a 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.
9. 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.
10. State-funded mainstream schools include community schools, voluntary aided schools, voluntary controlled schools, foundation schools, academies, free schools, city technology colleges and further education colleges with provision for 14- to 16-year-olds.

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