International Baccalaureate
(asked on 12th November 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many state school students took the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in each of the last five years; and what proportion of those students were female.
The data requested is below. Data relating to 2024/25 will be available in February 2026.
The number and proportion of state-funded student entries for international baccalaureate by sex
Time Period | Sex | Number of State-Funded Students | Proportion (%) |
2023/24 | Female | 764 | 55.9 |
2023/24 | Male | 602 | 44.1 |
2022/23 | Female | 661 | 55.8 |
2022/23 | Male | 524 | 44.2 |
2021/22 | Female | 772 | 57.3 |
2021/22 | Male | 574 | 42.6 |
2020/21 | Female | 763 | 59.5 |
2020/21 | Male | 519 | 40.5 |
2019/20 | Female | 737 | 58.5 |
2019/20 | Male | 522 | 41.5 |
*Source: A level and other 16 to 18 results
*Coverage: All institutions, England
To note regarding the data:
- Includes entries from students at state-funded schools and colleges who ended 16-18 study in the reported year (for example, 2023/24).
- Discounting rules apply (in other words, where students have multiples entries in the same subject, the best result is included).
- The sex of one of the 21/22 entrants was unknown and has not been captured by the data.