Data set from 16-18 destination measures

16-18 study leavers institution level destinations

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Published 16 October 2025

Last updated 16 October 2025

16-18 study leavers institution level destinations data by location, student characteristics and provider type and qualification level

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Data set details

• Theme: Destination of pupils and students
• Publication: 16-18 destination measures
• Release: Academic year 2023/24
• Number of rows: 75,658
• Geographic levels: School
• Indicators:
  • Number of pupils completing 16-18 study
  • Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
  • Sustained education destination
• Filters:
  • Data type
  • Institution group
  • Qualification level
• Time period: 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	cohort_level_group	cohort_level	breakdown_topic	breakdown	data_type	version	cohort	overall	education	he	fe	other_edu	appren	all_work	all_notsust	all_unknown
202223	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000007	London	201	E09000001	City of London	None	2016000	100544	David Game College	Non selective	Mixed	Independent mainstream schools	Other Independent School	Level 3	Total	Total	Total	Number of students	Provisional	84	57	48	47	1	0	0	9	3	24
202223	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000007	London	201	E09000001	City of London	None	2016000	100544	David Game College	Non selective	Mixed	Independent mainstream schools	Other Independent School	Level 3	Total	Total	Total	Percentage	Provisional	84	68	57	56	1	0	0	11	4	29
202223	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000007	London	201	E09000001	City of London	None	2016000	100544	David Game College	Non selective	Mixed	Independent mainstream schools	Other Independent School	Total	Total	Total	Total	Number of students	Provisional	106	64	50	49	1	0	1	13	4	38
202223	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000007	London	201	E09000001	City of London	None	2016000	100544	David Game College	Non selective	Mixed	Independent mainstream schools	Other Independent School	Total	Total	Total	Total	Percentage	Provisional	106	60	47	46	1	0	1	12	4	36
202223	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000007	London	201	E09000001	City of London	None	2016000	100544	David Game College	Non selective	Mixed	Independent mainstream schools	Other Independent School	All other qualifications	Total	Total	Total	Number of students	Provisional	7	3	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	4

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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. State-funded mainstream colleges includes sixth-form colleges and other further education colleges.
2. State-funded mainstream schools also includes city technology colleges (CTCs). Figures for this institution type are not shown separately in the table. 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).
3. '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.
4. Other education destinations include school sixth forms, sixth-form colleges, independent schools, specialist post-16 institutions, special schools and education combination destinations.
5. State-funded mainstream schools include local authority maintained schools, academies, free schools and city technology colleges.
6. Special schools group include all types of special schools due to the small numbers of schools.
7. 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.
8. Please note data for independent schools has much lower coverage than state-funded schools. This is likely to be due to difficulties linking their education records to employment data.
9. State-funded mainstream colleges excludes other government department funded colleges.
10. Reforms to technical and applied qualifications mean that the makeup of level 3 and level 2 approved qualification groups differ significantly between destination years 2017/18, 2018/19 and 2019/20. Comparisons across years and approved/other qualification groups should therefore be made with particular caution.
11. 'Other qualifications' are qualifications that are not included elsewhere in the 16-18 attainment performance tables

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