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School Attendance

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupils attend each (a) primary and (b) secondary school in Southend. [14306]

Beverley Hughes: The information requested is shown in the table.
Maintained primary and secondary schools: Number (headcount) of pupils: January 2005 (provisional)—Southend-on-Sea

Number of pupils
Barons Court Infant School and Nursery146
Blenheim Primary School458
Bournemouth Park Primary School533
Bournes Green Infant School180
Bournes Green Junior School282
Chalkwell Hall Infant School312
Chalkwell Hall Junior School416
Darlinghurst Primary and Nursery School389
Earls Hall Infant School267
Earls Hall Junior School354
Eastwood infant and Nursery Foundation School181
Eastwood Junior School226
Edwards Hall Infant School182
Edwards Hall Junior School275
Fairways Primary School406
Friars Primary School and Nursery521
Hamstel Infant School452
Hamstel Junior School467
Heycroft Primary School424
Hinguar Community Primary School290
Leigh Infant School264
Leigh North Street Junior School354
Milton Hall Primary School443
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School423
Porters Grange Primary School and Nursery540
Prince Avenue Primary Foundation School and Nursery382
Richmond Avenue Primary School411
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School and Nursery238
St George's Catholic Primary School206
St Helen's Catholic Primary School207
St Mary's, Prittlewell, CofE Primary School417
Temple Sutton Primary School758
The Westborough Primary School and Nursery704
Thorpe Greenways Infant School334
Thorpe Greenways Junior School482
Thorpedene Infants' School262
Thorpedene Junior School335
West Leigh Infant School360
West Leigh Junior School513
Beifairs High School1243
Cecil Jones High School1532
Prittlewell Technology College917
Shoeburyness High School1510
Southend High School for Boys914
Southend High School for Girls967
St Bernard's High School869
St Thomas More High School for Boys941
The Eastwood School (11–18)922
The Thorpe Bay School578
Westcliff High School for Boys985
Westcliff High School for Girls1032




Source:
Annual Schools' Census





 
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School Closures

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the schools whose closure has been approved by her Department in each year since 1997; and what the reason was for each closure. [14261]

Beverley Hughes: The information requested has been placed in the Libraries.

School Leavers

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people left school at 16 years in (a) Southend, (b) Essex and (c) England with no qualifications in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available. [14301]

Beverley Hughes: The table gives the number of 15-year-olds with no passes in GCSE qualifications and the proportion of the 15-year-old cohort for Southend LEA, Essex LEA and England between 1998 and 2004.
England
 Essex LEA
 Southend LEA
Number of
15-year-olds
with no passes		Percentage of
15-year-old
cohort		Number of
15-year-olds
with no passes		Percentage of
15-year-old
cohort		Number of
15-year-olds
with no passes		Percentage of
15-year old
cohort
200426,6244.15533.41035.0
200332,5185.26524.21135.7
200232,6245.46644.41457.3
200132,9395.56214.2935.0
200032,6915.65964.1935.4
199935,0366.06174.31015.9
199837,8686.66744.71609.2




Notes:
1.Figures for 2004 are for GCSE and Equivalent qualifications. Figures for 1998 to 2003 are for GCSE and GNVQs only.
2.LEA figures only include pupils at maintained schools. England figures include all pupils.
3.Local government reorganisation took place on the 1 April 1998 and there are therefore no comparable figures for Essex and Southend prior to 1998.
4.Ages are taken at the start of the academic year (i.e. 31 August).




Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people left school at 16 years in (a) Southend, (b) Essex and (c) England with no qualifications, but subsequently gained qualifications by attending sixth form or higher education, in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available. [14302]

Beverley Hughes: PSA targets for attainment by age 16 and 19 are based around young people reaching level 2 (5 GCSEs A* to C or equivalent). Provisional matched administrative data show that 49.2 per cent. of 19-year-olds in 2004 in England had attained at least level 2 by age 16 increasing to 67.0 per cent. by age 19. This equates to around 110,000 additional learners attaining at least level 2 between age 16 and 19. Around 3,000 of these additional learners achieved in the Essex Learning and Skills Council (LSC) area. Figures are currently not available for respondents with no qualifications or below local LSC area. This is the first year for which we have matched data to age 19, hence time series data are not available.

School Places (Cambridgeshire)

Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many parental appeals were made against the allocation of school places in Cambridgeshire in each year since 1997; and how many were upheld. [14563]

Beverley Hughes: The information requested is shown in the table.
 
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Maintained primary and secondary schools(66): Admission appeals. Each academic year: 1996/97 to 2003/04Cambridgeshire local education authority

Maintained primary
Appeals heard
Appeals decided in parent's favour
Number of appeals lodgedNumberPercentage(66)NumberPercentage(67)
1996/199717814279.88358.5
1997/1998947781.95976.6
1998/19991119989.27171.7
1999/200019614373.07955,2
2000/200123518177.010859.7
2001/200219414775.89363.3
2002/20031127768.83646.8
2003/20041208875.96371.6

Maintained secondary
Appeals heard
Appeals decided in parent's favour
Number of appeals lodged(66)NumberPercentage(66)NumberPercentage(67)
1996/199733531293.120866.7
1997/199816413481.710880.6
1998/199926625194.413855.0
1999/200036629480.318061.2
2000/200126919472.112363.4
2001/200228723180.513859.7
2002/200326520276.28743.1
2003/200418214479.17552.1


(66)Number of appeals heard by a committee expressed as a percentage of the number of appeals lodged by parents.
(67)Number of appeals decided in favour of the parents expressed as a percentage of the number of appeals heard by a committee.
Source:
Annual Schools' Census and Admission Appeals Survey




School Playing Fields

Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many school playing fields there have been in each of the past 10 years; and what their total area has been. [14578]

Beverley Hughes: Data on school playing fields have been supplied to the Department by local education authorities in 2001 and 2003. However, because the data were incomplete and of variable quality, it is not possible to accurately assess the number and area of school playing fields.

School Pupils (Weapons/Drugs)

Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupils in Milton Keynes have been found to be in possession of (a) a weapon and (b) drugs on school premises in each of the last 10 years. [14245]

Beverley Hughes: The information requested is not held centrally.

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