Data set from Key stage 4 performance

Subject timeseries data

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National level percentage of GCSE (and equivalent for unreformed GCSEs) entries achieving each grade across subjects in all schools for pupils at the end of KS4 in each year since 2009/10.

Data set details

Theme
School and college outcomes and performance
Publication
Key stage 4 performance
Release type
Geographic levels
National
Indicators
  • Percentage of entries achieving the grade
  • Number of entries in the subject
Filters
  • Sex
  • Subject
  • Grade
Time period
2009/10 to 2023/24

Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data
time_periodtime_identifiergeographic_levelcountry_codecountry_nameversionestablishment_type_groupsubjectsextotal_exam_entriesgradepercentage_achieving
202324Academic yearNationalE92000001EnglandRevisedAll schoolsAll SubjectsBoys246748991AstarG97
202324Academic yearNationalE92000001EnglandRevisedAll schoolsAll SubjectsGirls243867191AstarG98
202324Academic yearNationalE92000001EnglandRevisedAll schoolsAll SubjectsTotal490616091AstarG97.5
202324Academic yearNationalE92000001EnglandRevisedAll schoolsAll SubjectsBoys246748994AstarC67.9
202324Academic yearNationalE92000001EnglandRevisedAll schoolsAll SubjectsGirls243867194AstarC74.9

Variables in this data set

Table showing all 5 variables
Variable nameVariable description
gradeGrade
percentage_achievingPercentage of entries achieving the grade
sexSex
subjectSubject
total_exam_entriesNumber of entries in the subject

Footnotes

  1. 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 a new tab)).
  2. Total number of entries includes entries awarded U and X grades.
  3. Combined Science GCSE is a Double Award and is included in this table for the purpose of comparison with other Science subjects.
  4. For pupils at the end of KS4 in 2023/24, 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.
  5. c = a cell that has been suppressed due to low number of pupils. Suppression was applied where deemed necessary for all data up to 2018/19. For 2019/20, DfE suppression policy changed. For 2020 and 2021 results where a geographical area contains only one school (for example Isles of Scilly) the data for that area has been suppressed. This is in line with the announcement that school level data would not be published using either summer 2020 or summer 2021 exam grades awarded. Data has not being supressed at local authority or national level from 2022 onwards.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Only GCSEs and established GCSE equivalents (Cambridge International certificates and Edexcel level 1/2 certificates) are included in this data. Excludes Double Awards.

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