Data set from Key stage 4 performance

Subject timeseries data

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Published 1 February 2024

Last updated 1 February 2024

National level time series from 2009/10 to the latest year for entries into individual GCSE subjects broken down by gender and grades received in all schools.

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Data set details

• Theme: School and college outcomes and performance
• Publication: Key stage 4 performance
• Release: Academic year 2022/23
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • The percentage of entries achieving the designated grade
  • The number of entries into each exam
• Filters:
  • Gender
  • The subject pupils are entered for
  • The grade achieved
• Time period: 2009/10 to 2022/23

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	version	establishment_type	gender	subject	total_exam_entries	grade	percentage_achieving
202223	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Revised	All schools	Boys	All Subjects	2381751	91AstarG	96.8
202223	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Revised	All schools	Girls	All Subjects	2354728	91AstarG	97.8
202223	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Revised	All schools	Total	All Subjects	4736479	91AstarG	97.3
202223	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Revised	All schools	Boys	All Subjects	2381751	94AstarC	67.7
202223	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Revised	All schools	Girls	All Subjects	2354728	94AstarC	74.8

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 5 variables

Variable name	Variable description
gender	Gender
grade	The grade achieved
percentage_achieving	The percentage of entries achieving the designated grade
subject	The subject pupils are entered for
total_exam_entries	The number of entries into each exam

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Footnotes

1. 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.
2. Some zero percentages may represent small numbers due to rounding.
3. z = When an observation is not applicable
4. Discounting has been applied where pupils have taken the same subject more than once. In 2021/22, with the return of the exam series, first entry rules were reintroduced for discounting. Further information can be found in the secondary accountability guidance. For more on the discounting methodology read the Discounting and Early Entry Guidance.
5. Total number of entries include pupils who were absent, whose results are pending and results which are ungraded or unclassified.
6. Figures include attempts and achievements by these pupils in previous academic years where discounting has been applied. 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.
7. Since 2014/15, the early entry policy where only a pupil’s first attempt at a qualification is counted in performance measures was extended to all subjects. 
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. 
9. For pupils at the end of KS4 in 2022/23, where pupils achieved qualifications in subjects between January 2020 and August 2021, we will not use results from these qualifications and these results are shown as covid impacted. The entries into the qualifications are still counted. 
10. Some percentages may not add up to exactly 100% due to rounding. 

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