Written Question
Thursday 26th May 2016
Asked by:
Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of (a) trends in the take-up of academy places and (b) the performance of academies in Stafford constituency.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The number of pupils on roll in academies in the Stafford Constituency from January 2012 to January 2015 was as follows:
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
The Weston Road Academy | 824 | 819 | 797 | 813 |
The Rural Enterprise Academy | N/A | 40 | 84 | 94 |
Rowley Park Primary Academy | N/A | N/A | N/A | 161 |
John Wheeldon Primary Academy | N/A | N/A | N/A | 428 |
Source: School Census, January 2012 to 2015
The percentage of pupils achieving level 4 or above in reading, writing and maths at key stage 2 in 2015 (the first year for which the academies had results) for primary academies in Stafford constituency was as follows:
| 2015 |
Rowley Park Primary Academy | 83% |
John Wheeldon Primary Academy | 62% |
Source: School Performance Tables
The percentage of pupils achieving 5 or more A*-C GCSEs (or equivalent) including English and maths GCSEs at key stage 4 in 2014 to 2015 of the secondary academies in Stafford constituency was as follows:
| 2014 | 2015 |
The Rural Enterprise Academy | 22% | 40% |
The Weston Road Academy | 55% | 51% |
Source: School Performance Tables
The Weston Road Academy also has a Sixth Form where 79% of pupils passed at least 3 A-Levels (A*-E) in 2015.
Data for key stage 4 for years before 2014 are not comparable due to reforms to qualifications, notably the removal of many previous equivalent vocational qualifications and counting only the first attempt at a qualification in the performance tables in English Baccalaureate subjects.
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