Progression to higher education and training destinations
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Progression to higher education or training data by student characteristics (including sex, disadvantaged status and ethnicity), education establishment and destination at all available aggregated geographic levels
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Data set details
- Theme
- Destination of pupils and students
- Publication
- Progression to higher education or training
- API data set ID
- 019d4f39-da2c-77a6-8deb-caf00018466d
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- Academic year 2023/24
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 268,640
- Geographic levels
- Local authority, National, Parliamentary constituency, Regional
- Indicators
- Number of pupils completing key stage 4
- Number of pupils sustaining a destination
- Percentage of pupils sustaining a destination
- Filters
- Destination measure
- Disadvantage Status
- Establishment type
- Time period
- 2015/16 to 2021/22
Data set preview
| 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 | level_methodology | local_authority_selection_status | school_urn | school_laestab | school_name | admission_policy | entry_gender | establishment_type_group | establishment_type | sex | ethnicity_major | ethnicity_minor | disadvantage_status | breakdown_topic | breakdown | cohort | destination_group | destination_description | pupil_count | pupil_percent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | State-funded mainstream colleges | Other FE sector colleges | Total | Total | Total | Disadvantaged | Total | Total | 28035 | All students | Sustained a level 4 or higher destination | 11104 | 39.6 | ||||||||||||||
| 201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | State-funded mainstream colleges | Other FE sector colleges | Total | Total | Total | Disadvantaged | Total | Total | 28035 | All students | Sustained degree destination | 9124 | 32.5 | ||||||||||||||
| 201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | State-funded mainstream colleges | Other FE sector colleges | Total | Total | Total | Disadvantaged | Total | Total | 28035 | All students | Top third HE destination | 817 | 2.9 | ||||||||||||||
| 201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | State-funded mainstream colleges | Other FE sector colleges | Total | Total | Total | Disadvantaged | Total | Total | 28035 | All students | Sustained apprenticeship destination | 118 | 0.4 | ||||||||||||||
| 201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | State-funded mainstream colleges | Other FE sector colleges | Total | Total | Total | Disadvantaged | Total | Total | 28035 | All students | Sustained level 4 or 5 destination | 1862 | 6.6 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| breakdown | Student characteristics |
| cohort | Number of pupils completing key stage 4 |
| destination_description | Destination measure |
| disadvantage_status | Disadvantage Status |
| establishment_type | Establishment type |
Footnotes
- Local authority maintained includes community, voluntary aided, voluntary controlled and foundation schools.
- Note that the methodology used to determine the top third Higher Education Institutions changed in 2020 for the 2016/17 cohort. Instead of the top 33% of institutions, institutions are now only added to the list until 33% of the student intake is represented. Additionally, qualifications equivalent to A levels are now included in the process, rather than solely A levels. Top third results from the 2015/16 cohort are thus not directly comparable with 2016/17 and later cohorts.
- Free school meal status is given as in year 11. Students with no key stage 4 record were not known to be eligible in year 11 and are included in all other students.
- State-funded mainstream schools & colleges covers all state-funded mainstream schools, academies, free schools, city technology colleges (CTCs), sixth forms and other FE sector colleges. Excludes alternative provision, special schools, other government department funded colleges and independent schools.
- Non-selective in highly selective area includes all non-selective schools in local authorities with a high level of selection (where 25% or more of state-funded secondary places are in state-funded selective schools). These local authorities are Bexley, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Medway, Poole, Slough, Southend-on-Sea, Sutton, Torbay, Trafford and Wirral.
- Total state-funded mainstream schools also includes city technology colleges (CTCs). Figures for this institution type are not presented separately. Excludes pupil referral units (PRUs), alternative provision (AP), hospital schools, maintained and non-maintained special schools, independent schools, independent special schools and independent schools approved to take pupils with special educational needs (SEN).
- LLDD: Students in colleges may be recorded on the ILR as learners with learning difficulties and disabilities. The definitions differ from special educational needs recorded by schools.
- Other level 3 qualifications are those that are not included elsewhere in 16-18 performance tables.
- Other FE sector colleges excludes other government department funded colleges.
- State-funded mainstream colleges include further education sector colleges and other government department funded colleges.
- Unclassified ethnicity includes students for whom ethnicity was not obtained, refused or could not be determined.
- Selective schools admit pupils wholly or mainly with reference to ability. These schools are formally designated as grammar schools. The schools status is based on admission policy in the secondary phase (i.e. age 11).
- Other non-selective includes all non-selective schools that are not in highly selective areas, including those in areas with some selection.
- Academies and free schools: there are now fewer local authority maintained schools and more academies and free schools than at the start of the 2015/16 academic year (when these school types are reported). In the case of some groups of school, such as University Technical Colleges (UTCs), this means the picture of the sector given in these statistics includes some of the first schools of this type to open and is based on a relatively small number of schools, many of which only had students joining for the last year of key stage 4 study.
- Disadvantage status is given as in year 11. Disadvantaged students are defined as those who were eligible for free school meals at any point in the previous six years or having been looked after by their local authority. These are the students who would have been in receipt of the pupil premium when in year 11. Students with no key stage 4 record were not known to be disadvantaged in year 11 and are included in all other students.
- Note that the methodology used to determine the top third Higher Education Institutions changed in 2024 for the 2020/21 cohort. The change is covered in detail within the accompanying methodology document.
- The way we decide when a student is at the end of 16 to 18 study changed for the 2020/21 and 2021/22 cohorts. This change means the make up of these cohorts are different to previous years, and also to each other due to effects from the transition from the old criteria to the new. As such any comparison to previous years should be avoided.
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- API data set ID
- 019d4f39-da2c-77a6-8deb-caf00018466d
- API data set version
- 1.0
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Email: Destination.MEASURES@education.gov.ukContact name: Robin Davis