School Leaving: Apprentices
(asked on 24th January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of school leavers take up an apprenticeship (a) nationally, (b) in Yorkshire, (c) in York and (d) in York Central constituency.
The table below shows the number and proportion of pupils who left key stage 4 from state-funded mainstream schools in 2018/19 and went on to sustain an apprenticeship destination in 2019/20. The table shows these figures nationally, in Yorkshire, in York and in the York Central constituency. A pupil must have 6 months of consecutive activity in an apprenticeship at any point within the destination year to be categorised as having a sustained apprenticeship destination. There may be pupils who started an apprenticeship who did not sustain their destination for 6 months. These pupils are not included in the figures below.
| Number of key stage 4 pupils in the cohort | Sustained apprenticeships (%) |
England1 | 531,917 | 3.7 |
Yorkshire and the Humber1 2 | 53,539 | 5.0 |
York1 2 | 1,683 | 3.4 |
York Central1 3 | 735 | 2.7 |
Footnotes
(1) State-funded mainstream schools include community schools, voluntary aided schools, voluntary controlled schools, foundation schools, academies, free schools, city technology colleges and further education colleges with provision for 14- to 16-year-olds.
(2) The data are based on local education authority area. Local education authority area uses the provider’s administrative local authority.
(3) The data are based on the provider’s location.
The data which have been used to create the table can be found in the following links:
Yorkshire and the Humber and York local authority: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/a8dafbce-bcb6-4278-94ba-578e9f770a13.
York Central: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/27db1050-831e-4eb6-87c8-6f40b7bbcfa8.