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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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