Department for Education
Academic year 2025/26

16 to 19 performance

Performance data by age 16 to 19 in England. Includes qualification type, characteristic, geographic, provider, and subject breakdowns.

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Access the 16 to 19 time series attainment and single year entry dashboard (opens in new tab)

This dashboard allows users to explore time series data for 16 to 19 qualifications in England. It brings together figures compiled from the current and previous versions of the ‘16 to 19 performance’, with focus on headline attainment measures and subject entries data.

Access the 16-19 Transition Matrices dashboard (opens in new tab)

Transition matrices (TM) are a useful tool to help visualise the progression from different groups of attainment at key stage 4 (KS4) to outcomes achieved during 16 to 19 for a range of different subjects. 

Access the 16-19 Ready Reckoner (opens in new tab)

The 16 to 19 ready reckoner is a tool that can be used to both understand the value added model better, and to manipulate student data and inform target setting.

Access the English and maths progress matrix dashboard (opens in new tab)

The English and maths progress matrix is a tool that can be used to visualise the breakdown of KS4 average prior attainment and 16 to 19 attainment in English or maths for students in scope for the 16 to 19 English and maths progress measure.

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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 to 19 performance: 2025/26’ accredited official statistics release underlying data files. The statistical publication complements the 16-19 school and college performance tables. 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 A level and other 16-19 results in:

  • Students who have completed their 16-19 phase of education
  • Students who have entered an approved qualification in the reporting year

Approved qualifications are those that are eligible for reporting in the 16-19 school and college performance tables, listed in the 16 to 19 qualifications, discount codes and point scores (opens in new tab).

The information is based on data collected via awarding organisations, the school census, and the Individualised Learner Record.

File formats and conventions

Rounding 

This dataset has not had rounding applied. 

Suppression is applied to protect the disclosure of personal information or characteristics.

Conventions 

The following conventions are used throughout the underlying data. 

SymbolUsageExample
zWhen an observation is not applicableNo data for males at an all female school
xWhen data is unavailable for other reasonsData for an indicator is not collected in a certain region
cConfidential dataData has been suppressed
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Contact us

If you have a specific enquiry about 16 to 19 performance statistics and data:

Attainment statistics team

Email: Attainment.STATISTICS@education.gov.uk
Contact name: John Shale

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If you have a media enquiry:

Telephone: 020 7783 8300

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Phone: 0370 000 2288

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