Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average GCSE results are for students enrolled at 16-19 academies in England.

The Department publishes GCSE attainment for pupils, at the end of key stage 4, broken down by the type of school attended, including ‘further education colleges with provision for 14 to 16 year olds’. These figures are for pupils who are ordinarily aged 16 at the end of that academic year. These attainment figures are available to view here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4.[1]

The Department also publishes entries and achievement of GCSE English and mathematics from 2015/16 for students, at the end of their 16 to 18 study, at a national level. These figures are for pupils who have already completed their key stage 4 study, have enrolled in a further education institution, and sat GCSE English or maths during their enrolment. The figures are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-attainment-at-19-years.[2]

[1] Access this link and select the ‘revised’ publication for the year(s) you are interested in. Open the ‘main national tables’. For 2016/17, you require tab ‘table 2a’ and row 16; for 2015/16, tab ‘table 2a’ and row 19 and for 2014/15, tab ‘table 3a’ and row 19. Not all of the further education colleges included will be academies. The headline measures used in each year have changed and it is not advised to compare directly between years, further information can be found in the ‘quality and methodology’ document located alongside the ‘main national tables’ for each year.

[2] Access this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-attainment-at-19-years and select the ‘revised’ publication for 2015/16 and 2016/17, open the ‘national tables’ and select tabs ‘8a’ and ‘8b.