Permanent data table

'Level 2 and 3 attainment - ages 16 to 19 by local authority' from 'Level 2 and 3 attainment age 16 to 25'

• Created: 23 August 2022

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Level 2 in English and Maths (all qualifications) for 'Level 2 and 3 attainment - ages 16 to 19 by local authority' for 16, Number and Percentage in Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Barnsley, Bath and North East Somerset, Bedford and 151 other locations between 2015/16 and 2020/21

		Number						Percentage
		2015/16	2016/17	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21
North East	County Durham	3,658	3,418	2,969	2,975	2,519	2,634	66.85	64.28	58.02	60.04	54.93	57.66
	Darlington	753	792	749	722	625	669	64.97	68.57	62.94	63.00	58.85	60.82
	Gateshead	1,351	1,424	1,285	1,199	1,110	1,147	62.11	67.39	62.68	62.64	57.72	60.62
	Hartlepool	818	735	623	548	530	582	70.09	65.57	56.84	51.36	54.03	57.11
	Middlesbrough	853	770	667	754	726	734	56.34	53.03	48.40	52.40	52.95	55.90
	Newcastle upon Tyne	1,538	1,454	1,411	1,408	1,207	1,372	58.46	61.51	60.61	58.45	50.06	55.34
	North Tyneside	1,413	1,435	1,315	1,265	1,193	1,109	65.12	65.08	63.71	64.02	60.87	58.37
	Northumberland	1,997	2,090	2,084	1,876	1,787	1,829	55.41	59.77	59.61	58.53	56.55	59.97
	Redcar and Cleveland	1,056	979	971	947	911	867	57.27	56.69	57.08	58.53	57.15	57.00
	South Tyneside	1,068	1,024	968	918	822	845	61.38	60.81	60.88	59.34	55.35	58.84
	Stockton-on-Tees	1,277	1,223	1,349	1,207	1,141	1,224	58.39	59.25	63.30	60.53	59.40	63.16
	Sunderland	2,033	1,728	1,632	1,609	1,455	1,390	62.55	55.89	55.19	56.62	52.49	53.13
North West	Blackburn with Darwen	1,103	1,030	1,052	1,083	1,065	1,086	61.52	61.79	59.84	61.60	60.10	59.05
	Blackpool	774	705	633	591	506	494	46.85	48.76	45.02	44.50	42.13	43.22
	Bolton	2,279	2,084	1,967	1,597	1,717	1,676	63.96	60.86	57.60	53.61	56.55	55.64
	Bury	1,377	1,286	1,208	1,209	1,280	1,207	62.31	60.18	56.98	58.15	60.24	56.51
	Cheshire East	2,664	2,519	2,539	2,363	2,415	2,337	64.47	64.81	64.65	62.85	66.88	65.85
	Cheshire West and Chester	2,451	2,347	2,277	2,220	1,983	2,005	63.68	63.67	63.13	64.24	59.34	60.72
	Cumbria	3,316	3,330	3,169	3,020	3,040	2,883	57.62	60.64	59.48	58.54	61.43	60.96
	Halton	915	864	833	787	693	717	63.90	59.67	58.42	57.24	49.82	53.67
	Knowsley	668	507	489	444	428	352	47.82	40.24	39.44	38.71	43.67	37.73
	Lancashire	8,440	7,871	7,762	7,536	7,469	7,393	63.57	61.78	61.25	60.54	60.13	61.84
	Liverpool	3,077	2,670	2,507	2,480	2,446	2,372	60.02	55.35	52.04	53.46	53.92	52.27
	Manchester	2,455	2,447	2,309	2,403	2,286	2,445	53.06	53.74	47.93	50.29	48.64	50.93
	Oldham	1,911	1,795	1,631	1,623	1,614	1,593	61.11	59.65	55.12	54.85	54.14	53.26
	Rochdale	1,409	1,373	1,283	1,278	1,152	1,228	57.49	56.46	54.27	54.41	50.53	54.51
	Salford	1,341	1,177	1,111	1,056	1,019	1,035	59.05	53.26	51.39	49.60	48.69	49.17
	Sefton	2,133	1,951	1,832	1,791	1,688	1,683	61.08	58.75	57.83	59.30	56.89	59.94
	St. Helens	1,144	1,056	1,038	978	938	975	58.67	57.86	56.41	56.43	57.02	57.29
	Stockport	2,000	1,804	1,671	1,767	1,698	1,648	66.45	62.47	59.55	62.26	63.26	63.31
	Tameside	1,640	1,639	1,551	1,485	1,375	1,439	60.36	60.59	59.86	59.23	56.49	56.90
	Trafford	2,122	2,179	2,078	2,029	2,048	2,201	72.28	74.14	72.18	73.14	74.72	77.07
	Warrington	1,662	1,436	1,513	1,413	1,479	1,508	67.29	59.36	61.76	59.20	64.11	63.28
	Wigan	2,445	2,251	2,127	2,030	1,961	1,889	64.87	63.23	59.28	59.43	58.42	58.48
	Wirral	2,496	2,318	2,219	2,160	2,076	2,049	66.31	64.48	62.88	62.96	61.49	62.91
Yorkshire and The Humber	Barnsley	1,402	1,224	1,187	1,193	1,178	1,137	54.70	51.30	52.22	57.25	55.33	56.32
	Bradford	3,024	2,973	2,833	2,788	2,992	3,062	53.08	50.85	47.52	47.12	51.15	51.10
	Calderdale	1,726	1,653	1,681	1,602	1,572	1,569	65.90	63.14	64.53	62.85	62.70	64.57
	Doncaster	2,029	1,913	1,753	1,778	1,639	1,625	58.71	56.66	53.35	58.31	54.25	55.61
	East Riding of Yorkshire	2,427	2,372	2,180	2,155	2,139	2,053	62.26	62.83	58.73	64.27	63.38	64.89
	Kingston upon Hull, City of	1,322	1,364	1,218	1,113	1,055	1,214	52.84	53.14	53.85	51.17	47.48	53.91
	Kirklees	2,975	2,866	2,717	2,616	2,564	2,677	63.87	61.12	58.70	57.42	57.75	59.25
	Leeds	4,576	4,502	4,536	4,197	4,098	4,333	58.05	57.67	57.72	55.85	55.47	57.77
	North East Lincolnshire	1,104	1,042	983	840	825	808	59.58	59.61	53.77	53.64	55.37	56.98
	North Lincolnshire	1,122	1,118	1,116	1,164	1,053	1,013	57.30	59.44	61.76	61.98	59.66	61.36
	North Yorkshire	4,600	4,339	4,213	3,999	3,996	3,875	67.51	66.02	65.20	64.63	66.73	64.84
	Rotherham	2,317	2,159	1,968	2,018	1,627	1,697	66.01	63.56	58.99	60.22	53.57	53.72
	Sheffield	3,389	3,200	2,951	2,919	2,824	2,768	60.63	58.17	55.06	55.04	54.59	54.83
	Wakefield	2,627	2,333	2,350	2,231	2,038	1,984	66.52	63.28	62.05	60.89	59.42	58.08
	York	1,180	1,127	1,112	1,033	1,056	1,081	68.33	66.37	64.43	64.85	65.92	67.02
East Midlands	Derby	1,706	1,627	1,561	1,501	1,521	1,521	57.00	56.06	52.83	52.95	53.90	54.40
	Derbyshire	5,125	4,960	4,866	4,444	4,407	4,252	61.09	59.61	60.44	58.21	60.38	59.92
	Leicester	1,932	1,836	1,795	1,806	1,725	1,759	54.28	53.65	51.80	51.41	50.54	49.37
	Leicestershire	4,487	4,417	4,282	4,218	4,323	4,259	61.42	60.88	58.88	59.50	62.34	61.90
	Lincolnshire	5,439	4,938	4,771	4,546	4,553	4,342	65.24	59.39	58.01	57.65	59.96	59.28
	North Northamptonshire	no data	no data	no data	1,935	1,870	1,941	no data	no data	no data	53.99	55.77	56.79
	Northamptonshire	4,883	4,511	4,329	no data	no data	no data	60.98	57.55	55.27	no data	no data	no data
	Nottingham	1,402	1,331	1,221	1,061	992	1,121	50.82	48.83	45.53	46.60	42.54	48.03
	Nottinghamshire	5,584	5,272	4,994	5,102	4,830	4,780	64.20	62.64	60.48	61.80	61.47	61.41
	Rutland	323	315	336	353	360	341	68	65.76	68.15	72.48	75.47	73.18
	West Northamptonshire	no data	no data	no data	2,384	2,301	2,319	no data	no data	no data	58.05	57.40	58.19
West Midlands	Birmingham	7,668	7,245	7,019	6,793	7,040	6,819	60.85	58.94	56.60	55.83	56.99	55.62
	Coventry	2,093	2,002	1,932	2,008	1,813	1,829	57.53	57.53	55.79	57.13	52.73	54.37
	Dudley	2,378	2,197	2,009	1,859	1,901	1,841	60.39	58.76	55.19	51.61	54.47	55.91
	Herefordshire, County of	1,033	1,126	1,150	1,030	1,042	987	56.57	61.36	61.70	59.37	60.65	59.93
	Sandwell	2,092	2,003	1,771	1,687	1,698	1,660	56.48	55.76	50.34	47.80	46.64	45.47
	Shropshire	2,030	1,904	1,811	1,726	1,746	1,703	62.08	61.54	59.18	57.69	62.31	59.46
	Solihull	2,051	1,976	1,930	1,845	1,790	1,833	67.56	66.11	63.03	61.73	61.01	62.77
	Staffordshire	6,082	5,487	5,249	5,003	4,829	4,651	62.44	58.82	58.47	56.85	56.57	55.71
	Stoke-on-Trent	1,339	1,324	1,204	1,135	1,054	1,052	50.47	53.67	49.90	49.61	47.58	48.50
	Telford and Wrekin	1,232	1,200	1,140	1,119	1,053	1,065	58.64	58.08	57.03	55.20	57.35	54.93
	Walsall	2,070	1,988	1,732	1,677	1,479	1,575	59.65	58.25	52.47	54.88	49.90	52.29
	Warwickshire	4,024	3,916	3,701	3,610	3,610	3,564	66.14	66.80	63.42	64.22	64.63	64.47
	Wolverhampton	1,663	1,443	1,393	1,477	1,440	1,503	61.82	55.16	53.66	53.65	51.54	51.74
	Worcestershire	3,869	3,651	3,563	3,418	3,258	3,194	63.48	61.73	62.18	60.71	60.41	59.97
East of England	Bedford	1,158	1,042	1,021	1,010	1,074	1,078	60.60	54.73	53.26	53.69	57.59	58.36
	Cambridgeshire	3,830	3,716	3,563	3,668	3,554	3,439	62.95	62.49	60.96	63.70	62.66	62.72
	Central Bedfordshire	1,708	1,642	1,663	1,565	1,608	1,541	59.91	60.66	60.92	60.31	61.26	59.59
	Essex	9,717	9,565	9,361	9,020	8,857	8,304	61.69	61.62	61.20	61.50	61.23	58.93
	Hertfordshire	8,717	8,998	8,653	8,362	8,758	8,594	66.95	68.68	67.29	65.98	68.24	69.18
	Luton	1,461	1,466	1,362	1,305	1,259	1,354	59.63	58.15	54.26	52.24	50.24	51.70
	Norfolk	5,104	4,991	4,759	4,557	4,608	4,301	56.78	57.03	56.95	56.47	57.93	56.88
	Peterborough	1,295	1,280	1,193	1,195	1,125	1,185	56.70	56.26	51.65	51.33	49.45	51.01
	Southend-on-Sea	1,434	1,417	1,408	1,361	1,423	1,379	64.10	65.03	66.35	66.23	67.38	68.23
	Suffolk	4,371	4,166	4,238	4,029	3,912	4,050	55.78	55.63	56.79	55.97	57.67	59.31
	Thurrock	1,132	1,086	964	991	925	899	61.09	62.06	54.59	57.45	56.54	54.95
London	Barking and Dagenham	1,356	1,311	1,181	1,214	1,299	1,205	59.71	60.81	54.55	54.27	58.36	53.58
	Barnet	2,491	2,395	2,515	2,575	2,616	2,709	69.97	68.21	69.98	69.29	73.01	71.52
	Bexley	2,175	2,122	2,156	2,081	2,021	1,987	67.99	66.31	65.47	64.79	64.42	65.25
	Brent	1,837	1,820	1,855	1,800	1,835	1,867	62.63	61.18	60.03	57.27	60.68	62.63
	Bromley	2,574	2,329	2,306	2,265	2,129	2,126	75.37	69.71	69.82	70.34	67.52	67.49
	Camden	937	892	821	820	952	964	61.48	62.16	56.23	57.14	61.26	61.72
	Croydon	2,466	2,358	2,261	2,201	2,038	1,990	64.98	62.91	61.08	58.71	57.64	57.80
	Ealing	1,801	1,832	1,787	1,678	1,777	1,845	61.03	61.41	62.09	58.84	63.51	63.25
	Enfield	2,488	2,393	2,079	2,121	2,003	1,946	65.28	63.85	56.71	59.05	56.47	56.24
	Greenwich	1,458	1,355	1,280	1,293	1,253	1,252	66.73	61.73	58.74	57.83	56.62	54.25
	Hackney	1,034	1,103	1,224	1,340	1,257	1,297	61.62	59.72	61.51	65.56	62.17	62.84
	Hammersmith and Fulham	766	729	705	887	886	870	64.92	64.46	61.68	63.86	65.97	66.11
	Haringey	1,395	1,362	1,207	1,367	1,246	1,258	61.51	61.82	55.42	59.85	56.87	56.09
	Harrow	1,417	1,396	1,323	1,334	1,339	1,313	64.70	63.74	61.11	60.50	63.46	63.03
	Havering	1,997	1,972	1,852	1,720	1,788	1,749	65.24	64.34	59.70	58.68	62.80	62.64
	Hillingdon	1,935	1,921	1,837	1,860	1,945	1,922	63.57	62.29	59.41	58.82	61.18	61.45
	Hounslow	1,812	1,816	1,736	1,665	1,700	1,706	65.82	68.63	65.96	64.74	66.41	65.44
	Islington	930	882	794	835	821	848	64.09	61.42	57.66	58.68	59.15	59.47
	Kensington and Chelsea	489	567	508	523	543	493	80.03	74.80	67.46	71.55	73.18	68.38
	Kingston upon Thames	1,150	1,166	1,211	1,170	1,145	1,144	72.37	72.15	76.50	75.44	75.08	74.43
	Lambeth	1,263	1,162	1,103	1,115	1,082	1,155	66.33	61.81	57.57	58.04	53.94	53.70
	Lewisham	1,427	1,264	1,147	1,218	1,197	1,158	60.06	56.58	53.50	51.65	52.99	54.47
	Merton	1,038	1,046	924	967	908	868	64.00	66.20	60.35	66.14	62.84	60.91
	Newham	2,056	1,993	2,124	2,041	2,139	2,278	57.67	57.44	59.02	57.53	59.48	59.81
	Redbridge	2,425	2,312	2,181	2,101	2,291	2,378	69.62	69.10	62.64	63.71	66.66	69.03
	Richmond upon Thames	916	938	883	940	1,003	1,007	68.56	68.57	64.55	68.46	71.54	68.13
	Southwark	1,574	1,517	1,537	1,537	1,480	1,524	66.44	64.14	63.86	62.91	61.92	62.90
	Sutton	2,084	2,103	2,079	1,879	1,899	1,900	76.56	77.09	76.74	75.10	73.04	74.86
	Tower Hamlets	1,647	1,581	1,626	1,510	1,574	1,624	64.26	62.61	65.94	60.06	61.32	61.12
	Waltham Forest	1,487	1,504	1,468	1,625	1,566	1,575	56.56	58.86	58.00	60.32	59.45	60.07
	Wandsworth	1,186	1,115	1,079	1,090	1,117	1,149	63.29	62.19	58.77	63.97	62.97	65.73
	Westminster	1,004	1,059	1,039	1,111	1,067	1,031	69.87	70.41	69.36	69.74	68.75	67.96
South East	Bracknell Forest	638	782	739	686	671	670	58.69	66.38	65.86	63.34	59.80	64.24
	Brighton and Hove	1,459	1,331	1,400	1,312	1,419	1,422	63.13	57.00	62.39	60.77	63.58	64.43
	Buckinghamshire	4,019	4,151	4,054	3,965	4,102	4,181	71.91	72.65	70.38	70.09	72.45	73.22
	East Sussex	3,304	3,107	3,013	2,999	2,799	2,734	61.23	58.77	57.79	60.09	57.31	57.87
	Hampshire	8,601	8,644	8,666	8,355	8,194	7,785	61.52	63.20	62.41	63.58	63.93	62.11
	Isle of Wight	776	718	703	637	638	547	51.80	50.24	50.87	48.81	50.47	50.65
	Kent	10,734	10,461	9,853	9,764	9,133	9,332	63.61	63.48	60.72	61.56	58.79	59.66
	Medway	1,983	1,956	1,885	1,868	1,644	1,686	60.51	62.45	59.39	62.45	56.15	57.84
	Milton Keynes	1,744	1,512	1,587	1,542	1,634	1,531	62.31	53.85	54.18	54.58	56.60	54.60
	Oxfordshire	3,866	3,995	3,945	3,730	3,861	3,684	61.27	64.47	63.46	62.17	64.46	62.25
	Portsmouth	907	977	909	964	883	909	48.42	54.31	52.88	55.43	53.74	53.53
	Reading	716	656	689	735	703	613	64.86	61.42	58.44	62.13	61.99	56.08
	Slough	1,296	1,182	1,156	1,133	1,146	1,178	77.14	72.43	70.19	69.98	70.26	70.62
	Southampton	1,259	1,160	1,016	1,065	984	1,011	59.72	59.12	52.64	53.90	52.40	52.85
	Surrey	7,438	7,464	7,232	7,112	7,102	6,863	69.23	68.55	66.66	66.62	68.50	68.05
	West Berkshire	1,255	1,274	1,235	1,172	1,140	1,117	62.47	65.43	63.99	60.91	63.72	63.65
	West Sussex	5,080	5,269	5,140	4,999	4,843	4,653	60.96	62.36	62.77	61.18	61.72	61.07
	Windsor and Maidenhead	1,118	1,024	1,039	994	1,055	1,023	68.50	66.93	66.56	67.67	67.54	68.38
	Wokingham	1,231	1,224	1,191	1,159	1,191	1,177	71.82	72.60	72.05	71.32	71.70	71.03
South West	Bath and North East Somerset	1,425	1,404	1,349	1,343	1,339	1,357	64.19	67.05	66.42	65.87	66.82	65.27
	Bournemouth	1,126	1,132	1,032	no data	no data	no data	65.12	63.70	60.67	no data	no data	no data
	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	no data	no data	no data	2,371	2,364	2,310	no data	no data	no data	64.05	66.00	67.13
	Bristol, City of	1,776	1,893	1,802	1,762	1,785	1,817	54.16	59.16	56.88	56.04	54.44	57.52
	Cornwall	3,598	3,480	3,379	3,401	2,938	2,922	61.02	61.32	60.75	62.38	56.79	56.95
	Devon	4,705	4,663	4,509	4,263	4,189	3,927	60.27	63.87	61.72	60.73	61.20	59.42
	Dorset (E10000009)	2,618	2,741	2,573	no data	no data	no data	59.83	62.44	61.44	no data	no data	no data
	Dorset (E06000059)	no data	no data	no data	2,141	2,005	2,124	no data	no data	no data	59.96	58.32	61.82
	Gloucestershire	4,405	4,337	4,233	4,120	3,974	3,867	64.77	65.91	63.90	64.26	64.24	64.28
	Isles of Scilly	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
	North Somerset	1,345	1,368	1,353	1,302	1,296	1,280	59.83	62.15	60.84	59.86	61.63	60.92
	Plymouth	1,749	1,562	1,514	1,430	1,405	1,370	61.35	55.99	55.13	54.02	55.60	54.67
	Poole	1,059	985	1,003	no data	no data	no data	63.68	62.18	64.71	no data	no data	no data
	Somerset	3,331	3,283	3,226	2,992	2,891	2,676	59.60	60.68	61.28	57.89	59.42	57.97
	South Gloucestershire	1,838	1,845	1,642	1,587	1,537	1,441	58.72	60.02	55.64	57.21	59.05	57.34
	Swindon	1,315	1,352	1,223	1,242	1,143	1,174	57.60	58.48	56.05	58.58	54.79	57.21
	Torbay	920	938	963	914	847	810	62.46	62.28	61.46	63.38	65.97	59.87
	Wiltshire	3,391	3,217	3,237	3,060	2,949	2,996	64.14	62.33	62.90	62.39	61.69	64.26
England		356,550	344,360	331,900	323,240	316,530	313,890	62.19	61.47	59.80	59.73	59.72	59.88

Footnotes

1. Figures for English and maths do not include those from independent schools.

Source: Level 2 and 3 attainment age 16 to 25, Level 2 and 3 attainment - ages 16 to 19 by local authority

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