Schools statistics

Absence stats

The overall absence rate has decreased, going from 6.27 per cent to 6.04 per cent.
The unauthorised absence rate has decreased, going from 1.05 per cent to 1.04 per cent.

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In January 2010 there were around 8.1 million pupils (headcount) in all schools in England.
In 2010 there were 22,510 pupils in alternative provision.

From November 2010, figures are from a new School Workforce Census.
The provisional November 2010 results for publicly funded LA maintained schools and academy schools show that the full-time equivalent (FTE) number of regular teachers and support staff in publicly funded schools was 850,100.
The number of FTE teachers in service was 448,100.
The FTE number of regular teaching assistants in service was 213,900.

53.4 per cent achieved 5 or more GCSEs at grade A*-C or the equivalent including English and mathematics GCSEs or iGCSEs, an increase of 3.6 percentage points from 2008/09. The inclusion of accredited iGCSEs into this measure does not make a difference when reported to one decimal place.
75.4 per cent achieved 5 or more GCSEs at grade A*-C or the equivalent, an increase of 5.4 percentage points from 2008/09. When iGCSEs are excluded, the proportion falls slightly to 75.3 per cent.
55.2 per cent in maintained schools achieved 5 or more GCSEs at grade A*-C or the equivalent including English and mathematics GCSEs or iGCSEs, an increase of 4.5 percentage points from 2008/09
15.6 per cent achieved the English Baccalaureate in 2009/10.

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Performance tables listing all schools in England can be viewed online.

There was an estimated 6,550 permanent exclusions from primary, secondary and all special schools in 2008/09.
In 2008/09 there were 307,840 fixed period exclusions from state funded secondary schools, 39,510 fixed period exclusions from primary schools and 15,930 fixed period exclusions from special schools.
The average length of a fixed period exclusion in state funded secondary schools was 2.6 days, for primary schools the average length of a fixed period exclusion was 2.2 days.

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84.6 per cent of families received an offer of a place at their
95.6 per cent of families received an offer of a place at one of their top three preferred schools – an increase of 0.7 percentage points from March 2010.
97.2 per cent of families received an offer of a place at one of their preferred school

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