Data set from Key stage 4 performance

KS4 subject timeseries data

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Published 26 November 2020

Last updated 26 November 2020

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Data set details

• Theme: School and college outcomes and performance
• Publication: Key stage 4 performance
• Release: Academic year 2019/20
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • The number of pupils entering each exam
  • The percentage of pupils achieving a grade 1
  • The percentage of pupils achieving a grade 11
• Filters:
  • Gender
  • The subject pupils are entered for
• Time period: 2009/10 to 2019/20

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	version	characteristic_gender	subject	entries	91AstarG	94AstarC	97AstarA	9to5	grade9	grade8	grade7	grade6	grade5	grade4	grade3	grade2	grade1	grade99	grade98	grade88	grade87	grade77	grade76	grade66	grade65	grade55	grade54	grade44	grade43	grade33	grade32	grade22	grade21	grade11	gradeAstar	gradeA	gradeB	gradeC	gradeD	gradeE	gradeF	gradeG
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Revised	Total	All Subjects	4452792	99.4	79.7	29	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Revised	Total	Ancient History	894	99.1	82	44.6	70.1	14.5	14.2	15.9	14.1	11.4	11.9	9.2	4.7	3.2	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Revised	Total	Art and Design	187950	99.5	85.8	29.4	68.8	6.4	9	13.9	19.5	19.9	17	9.4	3.3	0.9	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Revised	Total	Biblical Hebrew	92	100	89.1	46.7	79.3	12	13	21.7	13	19.6	9.8	7.6	2.2	1.1	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Revised	Total	Biology	161082	99.9	94.9	53.8	88	16.9	17.1	19.8	20.5	13.7	6.9	2.9	1.4	0.6	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 41 variables

Variable name	Variable description
91AstarG	The percentage of pupils achieving a grade A*-G/9-1
94AstarC	The percentage of pupils achieving a grade A*-C/9-4
97AstarA	The percentage of pupils achieving a grade A*-A/9-7
9to5	The percentage of pupils achieving a grade 9-5
characteristic_gender	Gender

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Footnotes

1. c = From 2018 revised data, suppression due to low numbers was not applied unless deemed necessary. Previous years' data remains suppressed. For 2020, 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 the summer 2020 exam grades awarded.
2. In 2013/14, two major reforms were implemented which affect the calculation of key stage 4 performance measures data: 1) Professor Alison Wolf’s Review of Vocational Education recommendations which: restrict the qualifications counted; prevent any qualification from counting as larger than one GCSE; and cap the number of non-GCSEs included in performance measures at two per pupil, and 2) an early entry policy to only count a pupil’s first attempt at a qualification, in subjects counted in the English Baccalaureate.
3. : = When data is unavailable for other reasons
4. The latest year figures are revised, all other years are final.
5. z = When an observation is not applicable
6. Figures not present in the data means there are no pupils at the end of key stage 4 for this breakdown.
7. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting school closures, the summer exam series was cancelled in 2020. Pupils scheduled to sit GCSE exams in 2020 were awarded either a centre assessment grade submitted by their teachers or their calculated grade using a model developed by Ofqual - whichever was the higher of the two. Due to the changed awarding process for GCSE grades it is recommended that year on year comparisons are not made. For further information: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-cancellation-of-gcses-as-and-a-levels-in-2020/coronavirus-covid-19-cancellation-of-gcses-as-and-a-levels-in-2020 
8. Includes entries and achievements by these pupils in previous academic years.
9. Discounting has been applied where pupils have taken the same subject more than once. In 2019/20, only Only one entry per subject is counted and we count the entry with the highest grade for results received in Summer 2020. Previously only the first entry grade would count and this is still the case for any results received before Summer 2020. Further information can be found in the secondary accountability guidance where pupils have already entered for an exam within the same subject in 2018/19, first entry rules will still be used. For more on previous years’ discounting methodology prior to 2020, read the Discounting and Early Entry Guidance at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/key-stage-4-qualifications-discount-codes-and-point-scores 
10. 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. Information on how the 9 to 1 scale and the A* to G scale are different and not directly comparable is available in the secondary accountability measures guidance. In 2020, all GCSEs are now reformed and use the 9-1 grading scale.
11. Total number of entries include pupils who were absent, whose results are pending and results which are ungraded or unclassified.
12. Explore education statistics (EES) glossary can be found at https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/glossary
13. Since 2014/15, early entry policy, under which only a pupil’s first attempt at a qualification is counted in performance measures, is extended to all subjects. For Summer 2019/20 results, only a pupils best entry at a qualification is counted in performance measures.
14. Figures include attempts and achievements by these pupils in previous academic years where only the best grade in each individual subject is counted per pupil. 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.
15. The subject grouping composition file can be found alongside the KS4 data and metadata files under 'Download associated files'.
16. All schools include state-funded schools, independent schools, independent special schools, non-maintained special schools, hospital schools, pupil referral units and alternative provision. Alternative provision includes academy and free school alternative provision. Since September 2013, general further education colleges and sixth-form colleges have been able to directly enrol 14 to 16 year-olds. 2014/15 was the first year in which colleges have pupils at the end of key stage 4. From 2016 onwards, entries and achievements for these pupils are included in figures as state-funded schools.

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