Data set from Key stage 4 destination measures

Key stage 4 leavers institution level destinations

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Published 23 April 2026

Last updated 24 July 2026

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

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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: 131,314
• Geographic levels: School
• Indicators:
  • Number of pupils completing key stage 4
  • Sustained education, employment & apprenticeships
  • Sustained education destination
• Filters:
  • Data type
  • Institution group
  • Student characteristic
• Time period: 2020/21 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	local_authority_selection_status	school_laestab	school_urn	school_name	admission_policy	entry_gender	institution_group	institution_type	breakdown_topic	breakdown	data_type	version	cohort	overall	education	fe	ssf	sfc	other_edu	appren	all_work	all_notsust	all_unknown
202021	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	None	3901101	144352	River Tyne Academy Gateshead	Not collected	Mixed	Alternative provision	Academy - Sponsor Led AP	Disadvantage Status	Disadvantaged	Number of students	Revised	32	11	c	c	0	0	0	c	c	c	c
202021	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	None	3901101	144352	River Tyne Academy Gateshead	Not collected	Mixed	Alternative provision	Academy - Sponsor Led AP	Disadvantage Status	Disadvantaged	Percentage	Revised	32	34.4	c	c	0	0	0	c	c	c	c
202021	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	None	3901101	144352	River Tyne Academy Gateshead	Not collected	Mixed	Alternative provision	Academy - Sponsor Led AP	Disadvantage Status	Not disadvantaged	Number of students	Revised	5	c	c	c	0	0	0	c	c	c	c
202021	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	None	3901101	144352	River Tyne Academy Gateshead	Not collected	Mixed	Alternative provision	Academy - Sponsor Led AP	Disadvantage Status	Not disadvantaged	Percentage	Revised	5	c	c	c	0	0	0	c	c	c	c
202021	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	None	3901101	144352	River Tyne Academy Gateshead	Not collected	Mixed	Alternative provision	Academy - Sponsor Led AP	Sex	Female	Number of students	Revised	6	4	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	2	0

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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 characteristic

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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. 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).
4. '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.
5. '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.
6. 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.
7. 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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