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GCSE Grades

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list (a) by local education authority in England and (b) in total, the number and percentage of 16-year-olds who left school with fewer than five GCSEs at grades A to C broken down by gender in the last five years for which figures are available. [12187]

Mrs. Gillan: The information requested is not available for 16-year-olds who left school. However, the following table shows the number and percentage of all 15-year-olds--at start of the year--in maintained schools in England who achieved fewer than five GCSEs at grades A* to C, whether they left school or not.

Number and percentage of 15-year-olds in maintained schools in England with fewer than 5 GCSE passes at grades A*-C

	Boys 1991-92		Girls 1991-92		Boys 1992-93		Girls 1992-93
LEA	Number	Per cent.	Number	Per cent.	Number	Per cent.	Number	Per cent.
Camden	480	72.5	594	60.7	441	69.8	548	57.6
Greenwich	955	81.7	858	71.7	873	78.1	819	70.1
Hackney	525	85.6	598	76.7	416	80.2	561	73.6
Hammersmith and Fulham	395	73.8	349	72.3	378	74.6	331	69.4
Islington	585	81.9	388	78.4	565	80.9	377	78.7
Kensington and Chelsea	206	68.2	221	75.7	211	68.7	169	69.8
Lambeth	458	88.4	543	76.9	447	85.8	511	73.7
Lewisham	813	79.4	636	69.7	744	80.3	605	68.7
Southwark	784	87.8	678	81.7	679	83.8	646	79.8
Tower Hamlets	903	85.8	758	81.9	864	83.5	758	78.5
Wandsworth	629	77.4	492	69.8	595	75.5	431	67.6
Westminster	500	81.7	407	70.2	466	77.5	410	69.3
Barking and Dagenham	705	86.7	642	82.1	682	84.0	515	76.3
Barnet	937	63.1	712	51.0	893	63.2	647	45.8
Bexley	935	71.4	687	59.2	764	65.8	640	56.2
Brent	702	75.9	569	66.1	657	72.8	548	62.1
Bromley	763	61.8	599	49.5	752	58.1	654	51.5
Croydon	1,002	70.3	754	53.7	1,033	70.0	739	53.8
Ealing	892	76.6	745	69.6	843	76.4	747	68.0
Enfield	1,022	70.8	836	64.1	898	67.1	775	58.6
Haringey	668	80.7	488	70.4	646	80.0	484	69.8
Harrow	538	58.2	458	49.6	579	61.7	435	48.9
Havering	902	65.5	803	57.7	856	62.2	713	54.8
Hillingdon	815	71.1	615	58.0	744	67.9	619	58.8
Hounslow	708	70.0	622	60.2	735	70.4	601	58.7
Kingston upon Thames	347	59.0	307	48.7	276	51.2	259	44.2
Merton	539	69.9	425	63.2	467	71.1	408	61.6
Newham	970	82.9	888	75.8	968	83.8	782	71.8
Redbridge	828	67.3	620	57.4	757	63.7	616	55.0
Richmond upon Thames	408	62.6	320	52.1	417	60.2	328	50.2
Sutton	500	57.5	418	51.2	441	50.2	413	49.5
Waltham Forest	822	78.3	659	69.7	770	74.5	592	62.7
Birmingham	4,486	77.4	3,901	72.3	4,262	76.2	3,534	69.7
Coventry	1,127	71.1	992	63.3	1,142	71.4	896	61.4
Dudley	1,205	68.1	979	61.4	1,100	66.9	839	56.5
Sandwell	1,398	80.3	1,232	75.8	1,266	81.4	1,193	74.4
Solihull	808	64.1	638	52.3	757	61.2	577	50.2
Walsall	1,226	72.0	1,043	64.9	1,190	74.1	965	65.3
Wolverhampton	1,135	79.4	953	71.0	1,005	76.1	876	64.8
Knowsley	771	85.0	703	82.2	711	86.1	576	80.2
Liverpool	2,048	81.7	1,834	75.3	1,752	76.6	1,717	73.8
St. Helens	837	73.8	693	64.9	732	70.7	639	64.0
Sefton	1,047	67.9	922	58.4	958	61.5	748	50.1
Wirral	1,215	65.6	1,047	61.0	1,039	63.4	964	57.8
Bolton	1,150	70.1	864	58.7	955	66.0	818	58.3
Bury	598	64.2	534	55.1	556	61.2	391	45.8
Manchester	1,823	84.8	1,511	77.6	1,665	83.2	1,459	75.6
Oldham	1,109	78.5	918	67.2	1,022	72.7	801	61.7
Rochdale	922	78.0	788	69.9	831	73.5	691	66.3
Salford	898	76.6	789	72.8	766	75.1	690	65.8
Stockport	954	63.7	786	54.8	811	58.0	648	50.1
Tameside	996	74.2	762	65.4	862	71.7	722	64.6
Trafford	635	69.5	562	57.6	593	65.0	506	53.3
Wigan	1,225	66.9	993	54.4	1,138	64.4	906	52.5
Barnsley	1,019	82.2	777	69.0	850	78.3	779	72.7
Doncaster	1,377	76.3	1,159	68.1	1,174	73.0	1,011	63.4
Rotherham	1,148	73.3	1,023	67.1	1,033	70.1	884	61.5
Sheffield	1.946	74.5	1,591	66.8	1,803	71.9	1,369	60.5
Bradford	2,289	80.4	1,966	73.9	2,260	78.0	1,824	71.0
Calderdale	796	72.8	686	61.4	747	73.2	625	59.8
Kirklees	1,640	72.6	1,357	64.1	1,461	70.8	1,119	58.0
Leeds	2,894	73.9	2,299	63.1	2,461	70.8	2,140	61.8
Wakefield	1,386	77.5	1,121	66.6	1,242	71.8	1,004	65.4
Gateshead	778	76.0	736	67.3	688	69.8	590	62.6
Newcastle upon Tyne	983	75.3	945	71.0	914	72.0	793	67.1
North Tyneside	650	68.6	637	62.1	648	67.2	536	58.0
South Tyneside	631	72.8	567	67.3	577	73.0	489	63.3
Sunderland	1,314	76.4	1,186	67.4	1,189	74.6	1,063	64.3
Avon	3,323	68.6	2,617	58.7	3,156	68.2	2,501	57.1
Bedfordshire	2,121	69.8	1,663	60.0	1,909	65.5	1,649	58.3
Berkshire	2,624	64.3	1,976	53.3	2,304	60.2	1,890	51.5
Buckinghamshire	2,101	59.8	1,698	50.0	2,026	58.0	1,683	48.4
Cambridgeshire	2,388	65.4	1,884	55.3	2,236	64.6	1,759	53.0
Cheshire	3,538	63.6	2,884	53.9	3,172	60.8	2,582	50.2
Cleveland	2,596	73.7	2,263	66.5	2,361	72.5	2,110	65.0
Cornwall	1,695	68.0	1,408	55.9	1,589	64.0	1,262	52.4
Cumbria	1,769	67.0	1,499	58.0	1,668	63.7	1,367	55.1
Derbyshire	3,581	67.8	2,969	59.7	3,398	67.5	2,680	56.6
Devon	3,414	67.3	2,850	57.0	3,201	65.1	2,566	53.7
Dorset	2,051	63.4	1,713	55.0	1,899	60.4	1,503	50.6
Durham	2,430	71.8	2,073	64.4	2,209	70.6	1,870	60.7
East Sussex	1,904	65.5	1,497	53.9	1,774	62.0	1,425	53.4
Essex	5,894	67.9	4,864	58.3	5,537	65.6	4,486	56.0
Gloucestershire	1,783	62.8	1,423	51.4	1,603	60.3	1,290	49.9
Hampshire	5,129	65.4	4,308	55.7	4,998	64.5	3,850	52.0
Hereford and Worcester	2,481	68.6	2,000	55.6	2,314	64.6	1,836	54.3
Hertfordshire	3,376	61.8	2,667	50.7	3,206	60.9	2,530	49.1
Humberside	3,854	73.0	3,329	65.3	3,710	72.2	3,054	65.0
Isle of Wight	434	67.6	404	63.5	446	69.6	358	59.8
Isles of Scilly	6	46.2	6	40.0	2	22.2	2	28.6
Kent	5,819	67.5	4,806	58.3	5,369	65.2	4,574	56.7
Lancashire	5,364	67.8	4,499	59.0	4,847	65.3	3,931	55.7
Leicestershire	3,595	71.2	2,918	62.0	3,351	67.1	2,623	57.3
Lincolnshire	2,241	67.6	1,872	59.1	2,071	65.2	1,735	56.9
Norfolk	2,706	69.4	2,300	59.6	2,592	66.5	2,030	55.8
North Yorkshire	2,301	62.2	1,877	52.0	2,058	57.9	1,672	47.3
Northamptonshire	2,334	68.4	2,014	59.2	2,175	67.0	1,814	57.0
Northumberland	1,281	68.6	958	55.2	1,142	63.4	875	54.2
Nottinghamshire	4,184	74.3	3,551	65.9	3,779	71.0	3,140	62.6
Oxfordshire	1,765	63.2	1,393	53.8	1,625	60.1	1,274	50.0
Shropshire	1,629	65.8	1,241	54.5	1,411	61.7	1,093	51.6
Somerset	1,535	64.3	1,155	49.9	1,486	62.7	1,036	48.8
Staffordshire	4,297	71.8	3,428	61.5	3,808	69.2	3,040	57.6
Suffolk	2,283	66.8	1,748	54.8	2,074	63.1	1,633	49.9
Surrey	2,559	60.0	2,091	51.2	2,386	58.1	1,847	47.7
Warwickshire	1,801	68.4	1,459	57.4	1,677	66.0	1,318	54.1
West Sussex	2,089	59.6	1,612	47.8	2,031	58.2	1,604	47.3
Wiltshire	1,842	65.4	1,568	54.4	1,773	62.5	1,430	52.0
Total England	176,817	69.6	146,668	60.3	163.390	67.2	133,985	57.5

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	Boys 1993-94		Girls 1993-94		Boys 1994-95		Girls 1994-95
LEA	Number	Per cent.	Number	Per cent.	Number	Per cent.	Number	Per cent.
Camden	446	66.3	552	54.9	446	62.9	551	55.4
Greenwich	886	78.1	793	68.0	944	74.2	892	69.2
Hackney	476	82.4	547	73.3	484	85.1	562	69.8
Hammersmith and Fulham	378	70.5	336	65.5	403	73.0	312	62.8
Islington	531	79.7	348	75.8	611	84.5	441	80.2
Kensington and Chelsea	168	60.6	172	71.1	151	58.5	165	69.6
Lambeth	434	85.6	502	72.4	436	82.0	508	72.9
Lewisham	755	76.9	593	68.4	794	76.8	619	64.8
Southwark	723	83.3	699	80.1	715	83.7	590	71.7
Tower Hamlets	781	84.3	670	78.1	828	80.5	739	75.9
Wandsworth	616	76.8	393	63.2	642	75.5	468	63.6
Westminster	462	81.6	420	68.6	458	79.0	414	64.2
Barking and Dagenham	630	76.1	487	68.2	662	74.8	568	69.8
Barnet	881	56.7	554	40.2	828	53.2	626	41.3
Bexley	771	62.9	681	56.5	781	62.9	623	50.8
Brent	608	67.5	529	62.5	703	71.4	565	58.3
Bromley	736	54.6	583	46.7	791	56.4	718	49.0
Croydon	1,083	71.3	771	53.8	1,106	69.4	890	56.9
Ealing	852	72.2	733	63.2	878	74.0	742	59.5
Enfield	904	63.0	769	56.0	1,035	66.0	818	55.1
Haringey	556	76.8	514	66.7	698	78.6	521	65.7
Harrow	553	56.9	452	46.3	561	52.2	424	42.5
Havering	827	61.4	665	53.3	874	61.2	768	54.5
Hillingdon	785	68.9	607	55.5	781	66.8	740	57.9
Hounslow	777	64.8	631	54.5	904	67.3	644	53.9
Kingston upon Thames	300	52.5	267	43.7	319	49.8	286	39.7
Merton	482	71.1	422	62.2	510	65.5	395	56.1
Newham	920	81.8	841	72.4	1,035	81.0	917	71.5
Redbridge	725	59.6	521	46.8	750	57.9	624	51.8
Richmond upon Thames	372	54.5	326	45.6	427	58.4	308	44.9
Sutton	439	50.4	377	43.8	475	48.9	398	45.1
Waltham Forest	786	74.6	646	64.8	851	73.2	669	60.9
Birmingham	4,070	74.1	3,369	65.0	4,181	72.2	3,565	65.2
Coventry	1,073	70.4	906	61.0	1,224	71.0	997	60.8
Dudley	1,125	62.8	839	53.8	1,151	63.1	923	53.3
Sandwell	1,278	76.9	1,029	68.1	1,398	76.6	1,213	69.4
Solihull	729	57.4	563	46.4	793	57.8	696	46.9
Walsall	1,180	72.0	961	63.0	1,302	73.4	1,074	63.7
Wolverhampton	1,023	76.2	857	64.4	1,091	73.7	929	64.3
Knowsley	646	82.0	604	75.5	766	82.5	701	78.9
Liverpool	1,853	77.7	1,764	72.3	2,154	77.3	1,841	70.2
St. Helens	710	67.6	599	61.2	785	67.3	593	56.9
Sefton	951	58.5	794	51.1	1,050	61.4	878	51.1
Wirral	1,090	63.2	972	57.4	1,172	59.3	1,032	54.5
Bolton	981	62.8	759	53.1	1,054	63.4	804	53.3
Bury	509	56.8	477	52.0	615	57.7	499	51.4
Manchester	1,575	80.8	1,375	72.7	1,650	81.0	1,449	73.9
Oldham	1,042	72.9	904	62.9	1,192	73.7	933	62.1
Rochdale	825	74.2	644	60.9	891	72.0	725	62.1
Salford	782	73.4	705	68.2	905	76.4	775	67.7
Stockport	770	55.2	679	47.6	885	56.7	649	47.7
Tameside	859	71.2	727	60.4	943	69.9	818	63.3
Trafford	587	62.6	486	49.4	609	57.5	537	48.6
Wigan	1,094	62.1	955	54.5	1,264	63.0	1,000	52.0
Barnsley	889	75.7	721	64.5	956	76.6	831	65.5
Doncaster	1,247	71.2	987	61.0	1,311	71.7	1,021	64.8
Rotherham	1,068	68.9	911	61.4	1,124	68.2	986	59.5
Sheffield	1,669	68.6	1,434	60.2	1,796	68.3	1,485	58.8
Bradford	2,234	77.8	1,830	68.6	2,360	76.1	1,923	67.4
Calderdale	728	67.5	584	58.6	823	66.0	673	59.4
Kirklees	1,420	66.6	1,157	58.5	1,608	68.4	1,231	56.2
Leeds	2,466	68.6	2,098	58.9	2,728	69.4	2,170	58.6
Wakefield	1,124	68.5	935	60.1	1,243	69.3	1,113	60.4
Gateshead	738	71.4	579	60.9	775	65.8	707	61.4
Newcastle upon Tyne	930	72.5	787	66.5	1,016	72.6	950	70.5
North Tyneside	599	61.1	518	56.4	732	63.3	587	55.9
South Tyneside	583	68.3	488	60.4	686	71.2	585	60.8
Sunderland	1,304	74.1	1,162	65.8	1,472	74.5	1,192	63.0
Avon	3,056	64.7	2,442	54.8	3,205	63.4	2,589	54.0
Bedfordshire	1,892	63.5	1,638	55.8	2,171	65.2	1,791	56.1
Berkshire	2,204	56.0	1,825	47.4	2,421	55.6	1,943	47.5
Buckinghamshire	2,046	55.4	1,530	45.3	2,192	55.7	1,733	45.9
Cambridgeshire	2,156	62.1	1,683	51.1	2,263	59.4	1,856	51.3
Cheshire	3,013	57.2	2,558	48.8	3,448	58.7	2,736	47.7
Cleveland	2,377	68.8	2,029	61.4	2,625	70.0	2,325	62.7
Cornwall	1,512	59.5	1,165	48.2	1,590	58.0	1,300	49.3
Cumbria	1,722	62.3	1,272	50.4	1,654	60.8	1,372	52.1
Derbyshire	3,167	63.6	2,632	54.4	3,662	64.9	2,846	55.0
Devon	3,082	61.5	2,569	52.5	3,517	62.2	2,667	50.9
Dorset	1,812	55.4	1,435	45.8	2,021	56.4	1,484	45.4
Durham	2,255	69.2	1,990	61.6	2,694	70.9	2,109	59.9
East Sussex	1,826	60.6	1,466	52.5	2,095	62.2	1,662	53.6
Essex	5,346	63.9	4,328	53.1	5,583	62.2	4,461	52.0
Gloucestershire	1,540	58.0	1,335	49.4	1,636	54.9	1,354	46.2
Hampshire	4,730	60.8	3,876	50.6	4,872	59.7	3,906	48.2
Hereford and Worcester	2,182	61.7	1,785	50.6	2,380	61.5	1,998	52.5
Hertfordshire	3,069	58.4	2,450	46.4	3,396	57.9	2,623	46.0
Humberside	3,620	71.8	2,861	60.3	3,899	70.4	3,272	61.8
Isle of Wight	429	63.5	347	55.3	460	62.8	365	58.8
Isles of Scilly	6	42.9	2	18.2	5	62.5	5	38.5
Kent	5,394	63.7	4,397	55.2	5,702	62.7	4,702	53.3
Lancashire	4,739	62.3	3,950	55.3	5,102	62.5	4,243	53.9
Leicestershire	3,181	66.2	2,642	55.2	3,499	65.0	2,829	55.3
Lincolnshire	1,962	60.7	1,704	53.9	2,044	59.0	1,770	51.3
Norfolk	2,516	65.2	2,057	54.4	2,592	62.8	2,006	50.6
North Yorkshire	2,048	55.6	1,669	46.2	2,235	54.4	1,786	45.0
Northamptonshire	2,225	65.1	1,841	56.8	2,342	64.7	1,960	55.1
Northumberland	1,164	63.7	941	53.5	1,278	61.9	1,028	52.3
Nottinghamshire	3,723	68.7	3,256	62.0	3,914	68.5	3,298	59.4
Oxfordshire	1,643	58.8	1,245	48.2	1,752	60.5	1,364	47.7
Shropshire	1,403	59.1	973	45.5	1,531	59.8	1,210	48.8
Somerset	1,363	57.2	1,055	47.6	1,422	57.3	1,099	47.0
Staffordshire	3,805	67.1	3,032	56.4	4,039	65.6	3,398	56.8
Suffolk	1,973	60.8	1,576	50.8	2,134	59.2	1,711	49.0
Surrey	2,369	56.7	1,938	47.5	2,612	55.7	2,010	45.5
Warwickshire	1,612	62.6	1,267	51.8	1,645	61.8	1,348	50.5
West Sussex	1,982	55.2	1,479	43.6	2,097	54.2	1,669	43.8
Wiltshire	1,691	59.3	1,346	49.4	1,786	57.0	1,381	45.9
Total England	160,229	64.7	132,146	55.4	173.101	64.3	141,799	54.7

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