Citizenship: GCSE

(asked on 14th May 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of uptake of Citizenship GCSE in secondary schools over the last five years.


Answered by
Georgia Gould Portrait
Georgia Gould
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 22nd May 2026

Uptake of the GCSE in Citizenship Studies has been fairly consistent over the last five years. The table below shows entry figures for England since 2021:

GCSE (Full Course) Summer Citizenship Studies entries (England only)

Subject

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

Citizenship Studies

20,211

21,393

21,765

20,743

20,949

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