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		Art and Design		Music		French
	Number of 15-year-old pupils	Number of pupils entered for GCSE	Percentage of all 15-year-olds attempting subject	Number of pupils entered for GCSE	Percentage of all 15-year-olds attempting subject	Number of pupils entered for GCSE	Percentage of all 15-year-olds attempting subject
1997	586,766	194,666	33	39,691	7	306,055	52
1998	575,210	180,735	31	38,155	7	307,293	53
1999	580,972	183,157	32	40,709	7	311,384	54
2000	580,393	178,219	31	41,486	7	313,146	54
2001	603,318	180,627	30	41,625	7	321,207	53
2002	606,554	182,056	30	43,470	7	311,847	51
2003	622,122	186,968	30	47,557	8	304,472	49
2004	643,560	187,504	29	50,979	8	289,756	45
2005	636,796	184,814	29	52,228	8	243,177	38
2006	648,942	189,723	29	55,000	8	211,045	33

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		German		Spanish		Other Modern Languages
	Number of 15-year-old pupils	Number of pupils entered for GCSE	Percentage of all 15-year-olds attempting subject	Number of pupils entered for GCSE	Percentage of all 15-year-olds attempting subject	Number of pupils entered for GCSE	Percentage of all 15-year-olds attempting subject
1997	586,766	127,510	22	34,454	6	17,791	3
1998	575,210	127,374	22	38,810	7	18,207	3
1999	580,972	129,765	22	39,523	7	18,779	3
2000	580,393	127,437	22	42,288	7	19,423	3
2001	603,318	130,627	22	45,629	8	20,317	3
2002	606,554	124,717	21	48,444	8	20,641	3
2003	622,122	120,659	19	51,299	8	21,508	3
2004	643,560	116,347	18	53,539	8	21,879	3
2005	636,796	98,712	16	51,732	8	17,697	3
2006	648,942	85,247	13	52,478	8	19,148	3
(1) Those pupils aged 15 at 31 August at the start of the academic year. (2) Combined Syllabuses for Design and Technology and Information Systems are shown with the main subjects. (3) Also includes Computer Studies, Information Systems and any combined syllabus of which Information Technology is the major part.

GCSE: Results

Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list the bottom 200 schools in terms of proportions achieving five or more GCSEs A*-C including English, mathematics, science and a modern foreign language in 2006. [112152]

Jim Knight: The information requested has been placed in the House of Commons Library.

This analysis is based on the revised 2006 KS4 data.

Mr. Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what proportion of pupils left school without at least five GCSEs at grade C or above including one in mathematics and one in English in (a) the last year for which figures are available and (b) each of the previous 10 years. [130157]

Jim Knight [holding answer 27 March 2007]: The information requested is shown in the following table.

GCSE and equivalent attempts and achievements, 1995/96 to 2005/06( 1) in England
		Pupils not achieving 5+ A*-C grades at GCSE o r equivalent inc. GCSEs in English and mathematics
	Number of pupils( 2)	Number	Percentage
15-year-olds
1995/96	594,035	384,686	64.8
1996/97(3)	586,766	377,609	64.4
1997/98	575,210	362,639	63.0
1998/99	580,972	356,489	61.4
1999/2000	580,393	348,307	60.0
2000/01	603,318	357,897	59.3
2001/02	606,554	351,422	57.9
2002/03	622,122	361,686	58.1
2003/04(4)	643,560	369,078	57.3
2004/05	636,771	354,597	55.7
2005/06(5)	648,942	354,837	54.7
Pupils at End Key Stage 4
2004/05	633,414	349,205	55.1
2005/06(5)	645,931	349,894	54.2
(1 )Including attempts and achievement in previous academic years. (2) Number of pupils on roll aged 15 at the start of the academic year or from 2004/05 figures are also shown for the number of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 in that academic year. (3) Percentages from 1996/97 include GCSEs and GNVQs. (4) Percentages from 2003/04 include GCSEs and other equivalent qualifications approved for use pre-16. (5) Figures for 2005/06 are revised, all other figures are final.

Mr. Willetts: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) what percentage of pupils gained five A*-C grades at GCSE including mathematics, English, science, history and geography in each year between 1997 and 2006; [123054]

(2) what percentage of pupils gained five A*-C grades at GCSE including mathematics, English, geography, modern languages and double science in each year between 1997 and 2006; [123055]

(3) what percentage of pupils gained five A*-C grades at GCSE including mathematics, English, history, geography, modern languages and double science in each year between 1997 and 2006; [123056]

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(4) what percentage of pupils gained five A*-C grades at GCSE excluding mathematics, English, history, geography, modern languages and double science in each year between 1997 and 2006. [123057]

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