Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average total A-level point score was for (a) White British, (b) Indian, (c) Bangladeshi, (d) Pakistani, (e) Black African, (f) Black Caribbean, (g) mixed ethnicity and (h) all pupils in each of the last 20 years.

The information is not available in the format requested.

The most equivalent A level attainment statistic is the Average Point Score (APS) per entry, data for 2018/19 is available from the file ‘2019_REVISED_Performance_measures_by_characteristics’ in the ‘Underlying data: 2019 revised 16 to 18 results csv’ link below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2018-to-2019-revised.

Similarly, data is available from the underlying data produced for the equivalent publications in 2016/17 and 2017/18 as set out below:

‘2018_REVISED_Performance_measures_by_characteristics’ from the underlying data available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2017-to-2018-revised.

‘SFR03_2018_Performance_measurse_by_characteristics’ from the underlying data available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2016-to-2017-revised.