Subject pupil level characteristic data
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Data set details
- Theme
- School and college outcomes and performance
- Publication
- Key stage 4 performance
- API data set ID
- 19e39901-93ff-4d76-950f-4689d6c361fe
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- Academic year 2024/25
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 25,329
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Number of pupils achieving the grade
- Percentage of pupils achieving the grade
- Filters
- Disadvantaged status
- Ethnicity
- First language
- Time period
- 2024/25
Data set preview
| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | version | establishment_type_group | breakdown_topic | sex | ethnicity_major | ethnicity_minor | fsm_status | sen_status | disadvantage_status | first_language | ks2_scaled_score_group | school_admission_type | school_religious_character | qualification_type | subject | grade | number_achieving | percentage_achieving |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202425 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Provisional | All state-funded | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | GCSE | Ancient History | 9 to 1 | 1112 | 90 |
| 202425 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Provisional | All state-funded | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | GCSE | Ancient History | 9 to 4 | 806 | 65 |
| 202425 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Provisional | All state-funded | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | GCSE | Ancient History | 9 to 5 | 674 | 55 |
| 202425 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Provisional | All state-funded | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | GCSE | Ancient History | Total pupil entries | 1232 | z |
| 202425 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Provisional | All state-funded | Sex | Boys | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | GCSE | Ancient History | 9 to 1 | 559 | 90 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| disadvantage_status | Disadvantaged status |
| ethnicity_minor | Ethnicity |
| first_language | First language |
| fsm_status | Free school meals status |
| grade | Grade |
Footnotes
- Selective areas include local authorities where more than 25% of state-funded secondary places are in selective schools. These local authorities are Bexley, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Medway, Slough, Southend-on-Sea, Sutton, Torbay, Trafford and Wirral.
- Sub totals for EAL and SEN breakdowns may not sum to the grand total due to a small number of pupils with missing information.
- Unclassified includes pupils for whom the information was not obtained, refused or could not be determined.
- Discounting has been applied. For further information please see the discounting guidance (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/key-stage-4-qualifications-discount-codes-and-point-scores (opens in new tab)).
- Any science includes Astronomy, Electronics, Environmental Science and Geology.
- Any design & technology includes Design and Technology Engineering and Product Design qualifications.
- Combined Science GCSE is a Double Award and is included in this table for the purpose of comparison with other Science subjects.
- For pupils at the end of KS4 in 2024/25, where pupils achieved qualifications in subjects between January 2020 and August 2021, we will not use results from these qualifications. The entries into the qualifications are still counted.
- In 2017, new reformed GCSEs (which use the 9-1 grade scale) were introduced into secondary school performance tables in a phased approach. Unreformed subjects continued to be graded using the A* to G system. From 2020 onwards all GCSEs are now reformed and use the 9-1 grading scale.
- Where subjects have been combined into a group (e.g. Other Modern Languages) and a pupil has two or more entries, each result in each subject is counted.
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- Subject pupil level characteristic data
- API data set ID
- 19e39901-93ff-4d76-950f-4689d6c361fe
- API data set version
- 1.0
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