Academic year 2020/21

16-18 destination measures

Students sustaining an education, apprenticeship or employment destination after 16-18 study in England. Includes disadvantage, ethnicity and other breakdowns.

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• Produced by: Department for Education
• Published: 20 October 2022
• Last updated: 4 May 2023

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• Destinations of students leaving 16 to 18 study by region and destination year, 2017/18 to 2020/21

  This table shows destinations of students that reached the end of 16 to 18 study by region and across academic years 2017/18 to 2020/21.

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• Destinations of students leaving 16 to 18 study by LLDD status, 2020/21

  This table shows main destination categories for 16 to 18 study leavers broken down by learner with learning difficulty or disability (LLDD) status in 2020/21.

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• Destinations of students leaving 16 to 18 study by qualification level and institution type, 2020/21

  This table shows main destination categories for students leaving 16 to 18 study broken down by qualification level and institution type.

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• Destinations of students leaving 16 to 18 study by major and minor ethnic group, 2020/21

  This table shows main destination categories 16 to 18 study leavers broken down by major and minor ethnic group in 2020/21.

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• Destinations of students leaving 16 to 18 study by key stage 4 prior attainment and disadvantage status, 2020/21

  This table shows main destination categories for students leaving 16 to 18 study by whether they achieved grades 4 or above in English and maths and by their recorded disadvantage status in year 11.

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• Destinations of students leaving 16 to 18 study by qualification level, 2020/21

  This table shows main destination categories for 16 to 18 study leavers broken down by level of qualification studied during post-16 study in 2020/21.

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• Destinations of students leaving 16 to 18 study in special schools, 2020/21

  This table shows main destination categories for students leaving 16 to 18 study in special schools, compared with state-funded mainstream schools and colleges.

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• Destinations of students leaving 16 to 18 study by disadvantage status, 2020/21

  This table shows main destination categories for disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged 16 to 18 study leavers in 2020/21.

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• Destinations of students leaving 16 to 18 study by gender, 2020/21

  This table shows main destination categories for male and female 16 to 18 study leavers in 2020/21.

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• Destinations of students leaving 16 to 18 study by SEN status, 2020/21

  This table shows main destination categories for 16 to 18 study leavers broken down by special educational needs (SEN) status in 2020/21.

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• Destinations of students leaving 16 to 18 study by disadvantage status and region, 2020/21

  This table shows main destination categories for disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged 16 to 18 study leavers for each region of England in 2020/21.

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• Destinations of students leaving 16 to 18 study by key stage 2 attainment band, 2020/21

  This table shows main destination categories for 16 to 18 study leavers broken down by key stage 2 attainment band (low, middle, high) in 2020/21.

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• Destinations of students leaving 16 to 18 study by mainstream provider type, 2020/21

  This table shows main destination categories for students leaving 16 to 18 study by mainstream provider type.

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• Destinations of students leaving 16 to 18 study by key stage 4 prior attainment, 2020/21

  This table shows main destination categories for students leaving 16 to 18 study by whether they achieved grades 4 or above in English and maths.

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• Destinations of students leaving 16 to 18 study between 2017/18 and 2020/21

  Headline destinations of students leaving 16 to 18 study in England between 2017/18 and 2020/21 including higher and further education destination breakdowns.

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• Destinations of students leaving 16 to 18 study by disadvantage status and gender, 2020/21

  This table shows main destination categories 16 to 18 study leavers broken down by gender and disadvantage status in 2020/21.

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• 16-18 national level destinations

  National

  National level destinations data for students leaving 16 to 18 study for different characteristic groups, provider types, and qualification levels.

  • Number of rows: 14,888
  • Indicators:
    • Number of institutions
    • Number of pupils completing 16-18 study
    • Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
  • Filters:
    • Data type
    • Institution group
    • Qualification levels
  • Time period: 2010/11 to 2020/21

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• 16-18 local authority level destinations

  Local authority, Local authority district, Opportunity area, Parliamentary constituency, Regional

  Local authority level destinations data for students leaving 16 to 18 study for different characteristic groups, provider types, and qualification levels.

  • Number of rows: 338,524
  • Indicators:
    • Number of pupils completing 16-18 study
    • Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
    • Sustained education destination
  • Filters:
    • Data type
    • Institution group
    • Level based on LEA area or provider location
  • Time period: 2010/11 to 2020/21

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• Headline data 16-18

  National

  National level destinations headline data for students leaving 16 to 18 study for different characteristic groups, provider types, and qualification levels.

  • Number of rows: 1
  • Indicators:
    • Number of institutions
    • Number of pupils completing 16-18 study
    • Institution type
  • Time period: 2020/21

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1 supporting data file

• 16-18 Institution level destinations

  Institution level data showing the sustained destination of students in the year after completing 16-18 study (2019/20 cohort).

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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

Description

This document describes the data included in the ‘16-18 destination measures: 2020/21’ National Statistics release’s underlying data files. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License (opens in new tab) and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data (opens in new tab).

The publication methodology, available on the publication report, should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data.

Coverage

This release provides information on destinations from:

• state-funded mainstream schools and colleges
• state-funded special schools (including non-maintained special schools)
• independent schools

This information is based on data from the National Pupil Database and the Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset.

File formats and conventions

The Code of Practice for Statistics requires us to take reasonable steps to ensure that our published or disseminated statistics protect confidentiality. Where appropriate we apply disclosure control to protect confidentiality. 

The following symbols have been used in this publication: 

( 0 ) zero 

( c ) small number suppressed to preserve confidentiality or for accountability reasons 

( z ) not applicable 

(x) not available

( low ) positive % less than 0.5 

Small cohorts 

At institutional level, where cohorts are less than 6, all data are suppressed. This is to ensure that schools are not held to account for small cohorts of pupils rather than for confidentiality reasons. 

This does not apply to levels of data other than institutional level.

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