Data set from Key stage 4 destination measures

Key stage 4 institution level destination measures

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Published 15 October 2026

Last updated 15 October 2026

Key stage 4 study leavers institution level destination measures 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 2024/25
• Number of rows: 188,180
• Geographic levels: School
• Indicators:
  • Activity not captured
  • Further education
  • Not recorded as a sustained destination
  • Number of pupils completing key stage 4
  • Other education destination
  • School sixth form
  • Sixth form college
  • Sustained apprenticeships
  • Sustained education destination
  • Sustained education, employment & apprenticeships
  • Sustained employment destination
• Filters:
  • Data type
  • Establishment type
  • Student characteristics
• Time period: 2021/22 to 2023/24

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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	establishment_type_group	establishment_type	breakdown_topic	breakdown	data_type	version	cohort_count	overall	education	fe	ssf	sfc	other_edu	appren	all_work	all_notsust	all_unknown
202122	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000008	South East	886	E10000016	Kent	High	8866920	136205	Wilmington Academy	Non selective	Mixed	State-funded mainstream schools	Academy - Sponsor Led Mainstream	First language	Known or believed to be other than English	Percentage	Revised	22	100	95.5	13.6	72.7	9.1	0	0	4.5	0	0
202122	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000008	South East	886	E10000016	Kent	High	8867002	119026	Broomhill Bank School	Not collected	Mixed	Special schools	Foundation Special School	First language	Known or believed to be English	Percentage	Revised	43	97.7	97.7	2.3	0	0	95.3	0	0	2.3	0
202122	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000008	South East	886	E10000016	Kent	High	8867066	137883	Milestone Academy	Not collected	Mixed	Special schools	Academy - Converter Special School	First language	Known or believed to be other than English	Percentage	Revised	1	c	c	c	0	0	c	0	0	0	0
202122	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	888	E10000017	Lancashire	Some	8881109	119112	Larches High School	Not collected	Mixed	Alternative provision	Pupil Referral Unit	First language	Known or believed to be other than English	Percentage	Revised	1	c	c	c	0	c	0	0	c	c	c
202122	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	888	E10000017	Lancashire	Some	8884609	119780	Corpus Christi Catholic High School	Non selective	Mixed	State-funded mainstream schools	Voluntary Aided School	First language	Known or believed to be English	Percentage	Revised	90	80	73.3	40	0	32.2	1.1	2.2	4.4	13.3	6.7

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 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 characteristics
cohort_count	Number of pupils completing key stage 4
data_type	Data type
education	Sustained education destination
establishment_type	Establishment type
fe	Further education
other_edu	Other education destination
overall	Sustained education, employment & apprenticeships
sfc	Sixth form college
ssf	School sixth form

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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. '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. 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.

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