Data set from Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England

National - Key Stage 4 (KS4)

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Published 31 March 2022

Last updated 31 March 2022

Key stage 4 attainment by special educational need and social care group.

Data set details

Theme: Children's social care
Publication: Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England
Release: Reporting year 2021
Release type
Geographic levels: National
Indicators: Average Attainment 8 score of all pupils
Average EBacc APS score per pupil
Percentage of pupils achieving grades 4 or above in English and mathematics GCSEs
Filters: Ethnicity
Social care group
Special Educational Needs status
Time period: 2016/17 to 2020/21

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data
time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	social_care_group	pupil_sen_status	ethnicity	version	t_pupils	t_att8	avg_att8	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
202021	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	All pupils	Asian or Asian British	Revised	65810	3698715.23	56.2	40390	61.4	51480	78.2	33720	51.2	20200	30.7	26180	39.8	333074.96	5.06
202021	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	All pupils	Black, African, Caribbean or Black British	Revised	34910	1747066.52	50	17060	48.9	24640	70.6	15940	45.7	7190	20.6	10780	30.9	154216.67	4.42
202021	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	All pupils	Mixed or multiple ethnic groups	Revised	31770	1631140.68	51.3	16380	51.5	22740	71.6	13300	41.8	7350	23.1	9980	31.4	143518.55	4.52
202021	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	All pupils	White	Revised	422000	21203614.56	50.2	214950	50.9	302630	71.7	150740	35.7	84560	20	116480	27.6	1837621.49	4.35
202021	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	All pupils	Other ethnic group	Revised	11270	582272.52	51.7	5980	53.1	7980	70.8	5740	51	3010	26.7	4150	36.9	53008.98	4.71

Table showing first 5 of 18 variables
Variable name	Variable description
avg_att8	Average Attainment 8 score of all pupils
avg_ebaccaps	Average EBacc APS score per pupil
ethnicity	Ethnicity - Filter by ethnicity
pt_ebacc_94	Percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate (grades 4 or above in English and maths, A*-C in unreformed subjects)
pt_ebacc_95	Percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate (grades 5 or above in English and maths, A*-C in unreformed subjects)

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the summer exam series was cancelled in both 2020 and 2021, and alternative processes set up to award grades. The method to award grades was different in 2021 to that in 2020. The changes to the way GCSE grades have been awarded over the last two years means 2020/21 (and 2019/20) pupil attainment data should not be directly compared to pupil attainment data from previous years for the purposes of measuring year on year changes in pupil performance. More detailed information on the key stage 4 data published within this release is available in the accompanying methodology.
Special educational needs (SEN) status is taken from both the school census and the alternative provision census. The key stage 4 data includes pupils for whom SEN status could not be determined. More detailed information on the SEN data published within this release is available in the accompanying methodology.

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