Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average Attainment 8 score was per pupil who was (a) eligible and (b) not eligible for free school meals in (i) Ashfield, (ii) Mansfield and (iii) Rushcliffe in 2017.

The average Attainment 8 score of pupils, at the end of key stage 4[1] in state-funded schools[2], split by eligibility for free school meals (FSM)[3] in each requested parliamentary constituency[4] for 2016/17[5] is in the attached table.

[1] Pupils are identified as being at the end of key stage 4 if they were on roll at the school and in Year 11 at the time of the January school census for that year. Age is calculated as at 31 August for that year, and the majority of pupils at the end of key stage 4 were age 15 at the start of the academic year. Some pupils may complete this key stage in an earlier or later year group.

[2] State-funded schools include academies, free schools, city technology colleges, further education colleges with provision for 14- to 16-year-olds and state-funded special schools. They exclude independent schools, independent special schools, non-maintained special schools, hospital schools and alternative provision.

[3] Eligibility for FSM is taken from the school census for that year. Pupils whose FSM status is unknown are included as ‘all other pupils’.

[4] Figures are based on the parliamentary constituency of the pupil’s postcode and not the school’s postcode, therefore they will not match the published data from the ‘pupil residency and school location tables’ located here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2015-to-2016.

[5] Figures are based on revised data.