Uptake of GCE A Level Subjects 2022. Statistics Report Series No. 138

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Exit Examinations; Secondary School Students; College Entrance Examinations; Institutional Characteristics; Academic Achievement; Single Sex Schools; Disadvantaged Schools; Gender Differences; School Size; Incidence; Intellectual Disciplines; Foreign Countries

This report is focused on the uptake of A level subjects in England in 2022. Uptake in an A level subject is defined as the number or percentage of students at the end of Key Stage 5 (who have entered for at least one AS or A level) taking the subject. This report was produced using publicly available data from the Department for Education's (DfE) "Find and compare schools in England" service. The dataset consisted of Key Stage 5 (KS5) results of all subjects provided by each school in England. Other school information, such as schools' sex composition, admissions policy, and the number of disadvantaged pupils at the end of KS5, was also available. Only schools that had at least one student who sat for at least one A level subject in the 2021/2022 academic year were included. In this report, schools and colleges were classified into ten different school types: Academy (non-selective in highly-selective area (HSA)), Academy (other non-selective), Academy (selective), Academy (sixth form), Further Education (FE) College, Independent school, Sixth form college, Non-selective in HSA, Other non-selective, and Selective.

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2024

ED639668