The characteristics of leavers
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 8:23 am
Final destinations
Let’s examine the final destinations of our 6 cohorts in a bit more detail.
By final destination, we mean the type of school against which pupils were recorded in Key Stage 4 data.
For most destinations, the asia rcs data percentages of pupils remained relatively stable from year to year.
However, there has been a general decline in pupils completing Key Stage 4 at AP schools, at least in as far as the Key Stage 4 data shows.
But there has also been an increase in the proportion of pupils leaving with no destination. This will include an unknown number of pupils who have emigrated.
To finish, we examine some of the characteristics of pupils who change school or leave the mainstream sector.
We do this for the following characteristics:
Gender
Ethnic background
Special educational needs (SEN) status (as at Year 7)
Ever eligible for free school meals (FSM) by Year 7
Key Stage 2 reading and maths test outcomes
Exclusions and suspensions up to the end of 2022[3]
The 2023 Progress 8 score of the school attended in Year 7, using the bandings that appear in School Performance Tables.
One limitation we acknowledge is that exclusions and suspensions are based on pupils’ full school histories up to the end of Year 10. We do not look here at whether exclusions and suspensions precede school moves or take place afterwards. That will have to be for another day.
Let’s examine the final destinations of our 6 cohorts in a bit more detail.
By final destination, we mean the type of school against which pupils were recorded in Key Stage 4 data.
For most destinations, the asia rcs data percentages of pupils remained relatively stable from year to year.
However, there has been a general decline in pupils completing Key Stage 4 at AP schools, at least in as far as the Key Stage 4 data shows.
But there has also been an increase in the proportion of pupils leaving with no destination. This will include an unknown number of pupils who have emigrated.
To finish, we examine some of the characteristics of pupils who change school or leave the mainstream sector.
We do this for the following characteristics:
Gender
Ethnic background
Special educational needs (SEN) status (as at Year 7)
Ever eligible for free school meals (FSM) by Year 7
Key Stage 2 reading and maths test outcomes
Exclusions and suspensions up to the end of 2022[3]
The 2023 Progress 8 score of the school attended in Year 7, using the bandings that appear in School Performance Tables.
One limitation we acknowledge is that exclusions and suspensions are based on pupils’ full school histories up to the end of Year 10. We do not look here at whether exclusions and suspensions precede school moves or take place afterwards. That will have to be for another day.