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Table C: Inspection outcomes for special schools at their most recent inspection: Schools inspected under the previous inspection framework
Type of special school	Band of deprivation (based on IDACI( 1) )	Overall effectiveness
Maintained	9	Very Good
Maintained	5	Good
Non-maintained	10	Good

Special Educational Needs: GCSE

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of pupils who had (a) statemented special needs, (b) non-statemented special needs and (c) no special educational needs and who attended mainstream secondary schools achieved five grades A* to C at GCSE including English, mathematics, at least one science, at least one foreign language and history in each year since 1997. [264605]

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The information requested can be provided only at a disproportionate cost.

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many and what proportion of pupils who had (a) statemented special educational needs, (b) non-statemented special educational needs and (c) no special educational needs and who attended mainstream secondary schools achieved five grades A* to C at GCSE in each year since 1997; [264606]

(2) how many and what proportion of pupils who had (a) statemented special educational needs, (b) non- statemented special educational needs and (c) no special educational needs and who attended mainstream secondary schools achieved five grades A* to C at GCSE including English and mathematics in each year since 1997; [264607]

(3) how many and what percentage of pupils with (a) a statement of and (b) unstatemented special educational need who attended mainstream schools achieved (i) five A* to G grades, (ii) five A* to C grades and (iii) five A* to C grades including English and mathematics at GCSE in each year since 2003. [266645]

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The information available can be found in the tables:

Number of pupils with a statement of special education needs and percentage of that cohort who achieved selected GCSE benchmarks
	Five A* to G grades		Five A* to C grades		Five A* to C grades including English and mathematics
	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage
2008	9,376	71.1	2,512	19.1	1,192	9.0
2007	9,104	67.2	2,142	15.8	1,024	7.6
2006	9,077	64.4	2,034	14.4	1,015	7.2
2005	8,885	62.5	1,636	11.5	850	6.0
2004	8,927	60.3	1,484	10.0	697	4.7
Source: Achievement and Attainment Tables, National Pupil Database

Number of non-statemented special education needs pupils and percentage of that cohort who achieved selected GCSE benchmarks
	Five A* to G grades		Five A* to C grades		Five A* to C grades including English and mathematics
	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage
2008	86,448	81.9	32,205	30.5	15,775	14.9
2007	72,430	78.0	22,030	23.7	10,930	11.8
2006	63,152	74.9	16,731	19.8	8,367	9.9
2005	55,919	73.0^	13,057	17.1	7,361	9.6
2004	51,775	70.9	10,327	14.2	5,455	7.5
Source: Achievement and Attainment Tables, National Pupil Database

Number of pupils with no special education needs and percentage of that cohort who achieved selected GCSE benchmarks.
	Five A* to G grades		Five A* to C grades		Five A* to C grades including English and mathematics
	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage
2008	454,931	97.2	349,167	74.6	270,503	57.8
2007	465,283	96.5	334,515	69.4	262,063	54.3
2006	464,860	95.9	321,034	66.3	251,429	51.9
2005	459,705	95.5	304,628	63.3	246,415	51.2
2004	468,003	94.8	294,936	59.7	232,013	47.0
Source: Achievement and Attainment Tables, National Pupil Database.

Figures prior to 2004 have not been provided as these are not available on a comparable basis.

These figures are for pupils in maintained mainstream schools which include: Academies, Community schools, Voluntary Aided schools, Voluntary Controlled schools, Foundation schools and City Technology schools.

Special Educational Needs: Truancy

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of unauthorised absences were recorded in respect of pupils with (a) statemented and (b) non-statemented special educational needs in each of the last 10 years. [266445]

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The available information is shown in the tables.

Data on pupil characteristics linked to absence was collected in the School Census for the first time in 2005/06, but was collected from secondary schools only. In 2006/07 data were also collected from primary and special schools.

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Proportion of sessions of unauthorised absence by status of special educational need of pupil( 1) 2005/06 to 2007/08
Percentage
	2005/ 06
	Primary( 2)	Secondary( 2,3)	Special( 4)	All schools( 3,4)
SEN status of pupils:
No identified SEN	(5)—	59.8	(5)—	(5)—
SEN no statement	(5)—	33.9	(5)—	(5)—
Statement of SEN	(5)—	4.2	(5)—	(5)—
SEN status not provided	(5)—	2.2	(5)—	(5)—
Total	(5)—	100.0	(5)—	(5)—

	2006 / 07
	Primary( 2)	Secondary( 2,3)	Special( 4)	All schools( 3,4)
SEN status of pupils:
No identified SEN	58.3	57.4	0.1	56.4
SEN no statement	35.6	36.4	3.1	35.4
Statement of SEN	2.4	3.9	94.9	5.5
SEN status not provided	3.7	2.3	1.9	2.7
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

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Percentage
	2007/ 08
	Primary( 2)	Secondary( 2,3)	Special( 4)	All schools( 3,4)
SEN status of pupils:
No identified SEN	58.3	54.7	0.5	54.5
SEN no statement	35.8	39.4	4.8	37.5
Statement of SEN	2.1	3.6	92.4	5.2
SEN status not provided	3.7	2.4	2.3	2.8
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
(1) Number of sessions of unauthorised absence for pupils within each status of special educational need and by phase as a proportion of the total number of sessions of unauthorised absence for all pupils in each phase. (2) Includes middle schools as deemed. (3) Includes maintained secondary schools, city technology colleges and academies (including all-through academies). (4) Includes maintained and non-maintained special schools. Excludes general hospital schools. (5 )Not available. Source: School Census.

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