Music: GCE A-level

(asked on 27th April 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils study music at GCSE level in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire and (c) Rother Valley constituency.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 5th May 2020

The number of pupils[1] entered[2] for music GCSE[3],[4] and GCE A Level[5],[6] in Rother Valley and Yorkshire and the Humber for the academic year 2018/19 is shown in the table below:

Region/Local Authority[7]

GCSE

GCE A Level

Rother Valley

29

6

Yorkshire and The Humber

2,334

280

The national figure for GCSE entries can be found under ‘Subject data’ from:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/key-stage-4-performance-2019-revised.

The national figure for GCE A Level entries can be found under ‘Underlying data: 2019 Revised’ and selecting ‘REVISED_A_Level_Results_by_LA_and_Region’ from:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2018-to-2019-revised

Please note that we have not provided figures for pupils studying music at primary and secondary school overall. This is because music is part of the national curriculum and is a compulsory subject between Key Stages 1 and 3. Therefore, all pupils are required to study music during these stages.

[1] Includes attempts and achievements by these pupils at the end of their year of study.

[2] Counts are for pupils who have entered exams. We do not hold data for the number of pupils who study the subject.

[3] In line with discounting rules, only one attempt is counted.

[4] Counts are for pupils with exam entries only.

[5] Represents the number of exam entries, which will differ slightly from initial registration in a subject.

[6] GCSE information is based on final data, A level data is based on revised figures.

[7] Local Authority and Region figures cover achievements in state-funded schools only. They do not include pupils recently arrived from overseas and so will not match with state-funded figures in the published data.

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