Data set from Key stage 4 performance

Local authority characteristics data

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Published 5 December 2024

Last updated 5 December 2024

Local authority and regional level headline entry and attainment measures for the latest year broken down by gender, major and minor ethnicity, free school meal eligibility, special educational need status and description, disadvantaged status and first language. State-funded schools only.

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Data set details

• Theme: School and college outcomes and performance
• Publication: Key stage 4 performance
• Release: Academic year 2023/24
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Average Attainment 8 score
  • Average EBacc APS score
  • Average Progress 8 score
• Filters:
  • Sex
  • Major ethnic group
  • Minor ethnic group
• Time period: 2018/19 to 2023/24

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Data set preview

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	version	education_investment_area_flag	priority_area_flag	establishment_type_group	breakdown	sex	ethnicity_major	ethnicity_minor	free_school_meals	sen_provision	sen_status	disadvantage	first_language	t_schools	t_pupils	t_att8	avg_att8	t_entbasics	pt_entbasics	t_l2basics_95	pt_l2basics_95	t_l2basics_94	pt_l2basics_94	t_ebacc_e_ptq_ee	pt_ebacc_e_ptq_ee	t_ebacc_95	pt_ebacc_95	t_ebacc_94	pt_ebacc_94	t_ebaccaps	avg_ebaccaps	t_inp8calc	t_p8score	avg_p8score	p8score_ci_low	p8score_ci_upp
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Provisional	0	0	State-funded schools (LA)	Ethnicity minor	Boys	Asian	Any other Asian background	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	1893	6454	340295.01	52.7	6250	96.8	3999	62	4982	77.2	3124	48.4	1572	24.4	2071	32.1	30996.62	4.8	5446	2982.174	0.55	0.51	0.59
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Provisional	0	0	State-funded schools (LA)	Ethnicity minor	Boys	Asian	Bangladeshi	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	1088	5510	273342	49.6	5285	95.9	3089	56.1	4004	72.7	2815	51.1	1166	21.2	1621	29.4	24707.84	4.48	5176	1578.106	0.3	0.27	0.34
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Provisional	0	0	State-funded schools (LA)	Ethnicity minor	Boys	Asian	Chinese	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	1045	2064	136231.51	66	2018	97.8	1622	78.6	1831	88.7	1375	66.6	993	48.1	1159	56.2	13012.46	6.3	1203	1182.549	0.98	0.9	1.06
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Provisional	0	0	State-funded schools (LA)	Ethnicity minor	Boys	Asian	Indian	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	1831	10616	613199.8	57.8	10410	98.1	7348	69.2	8770	82.6	5838	55	3270	30.8	4140	39	56179.72	5.29	9119	6714.88	0.74	0.71	0.77
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Provisional	0	0	State-funded schools (LA)	Ethnicity minor	Boys	Asian	Pakistani	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	1599	14822	661420.76	44.6	14320	96.6	6767	45.7	9560	64.5	6266	42.3	2054	13.9	3064	20.7	58842.56	3.97	13697	752.161	0.05	0.03	0.08

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 31 variables

Variable name	Variable description
avg_att8	Average Attainment 8 score
avg_ebaccaps	Average EBacc APS score
avg_p8score	Average Progress 8 score
disadvantage	Disadvantaged status
ethnicity_major	Major ethnic group

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Footnotes

1. Local authority, region, parliamentary constituency and the total (state-funded sector) figures cover achievements in state-funded schools only. They do not include pupils recently arrived from overseas and so will not match with state-funded figures in the national tables.
2. Sub totals for EAL and SEN breakdowns may not sum to the grand total due to a small number of pupils with missing information.
3. Unclassified includes pupils for whom the information was not obtained, refused or could not be determined.
4. Progress 8 was not published in 2020 or 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
5. A Progress 8 score of 1.0 means pupils make on average a grade more progress than the national average of pupils with similar KS2 prior attainment in mainstream schools. Progress 8 should be interpreted alongside the associated confidence intervals. If the confidence intervals cross 0, then progress is not significantly different compared to pupils with similar KS2 prior attainment in mainstream schools.
6. Changes were made to the methodology for calculating performance data due to the commitment not to use qualification results awarded between January 2020 and August 2021 in future measures. GCSE exams returned in 2022 and grades were awarded at a midpoint between 2021 and pre-pandemic grading. In 2023, there was a return to pre-pandemic grading, with some protections. Comparisons to 2020, 2021, and 2022 should be made with caution.
7. 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.
8. 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.

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