Department for Education
Academic year 2024/25

Key stage 4 destination measures

Pupils sustaining an education, apprenticeship or employment destination after GCSEs in England. Includes disadvantage, ethnicity and other breakdowns.

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    Local authority, Local authority district, National, Parliamentary constituency, Regional, School (CSV only)

    Key stage 4 study leavers destinations data by student characteristics (including sex, disadvantaged status and ethnicity), education establishment and destination at all available aggregated geographic levels

    API data set ID
    019d4f41-22d1-71b2-a1a7-f3b91026815b
    Number of rows
    2,412,408
    Indicators
    • Number of institutions
    • Number of pupils completing key stage 4
    • Number of pupils sustaining a destination
    Filters
    • Destination measure
    • Disadvantage Status
    • Establishment type
    Time period
    2009/10 to 2023/24
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  • Key stage 4 institution level destination measures

    School

    Key stage 4 study leavers institution level destination measures data by location, student characteristics and provider type

    Number of rows
    188,180
    Indicators
    • Activity not captured
    • Further education
    • Not recorded as a sustained destination
    Filters
    • Data type
    • Establishment type
    • Student characteristics
    Time period
    2021/22 to 2023/24
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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 ‘KS4 destination measures: 2024/25’ Official Statistics release’s underlying data files. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data (opens in new tab) (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
  • state-funded special schools (including non-maintained special schools)
  • alternative provision

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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Destination measures

Email: Destination.MEASURES@education.gov.uk
Contact name: Daniel Brown

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