The Department for Education has published the secondary school performance statistics for the last academic year (2011/2012). This is like the annual report on how the school system has performed. The full data is available from the department’s website, but here is a roundup of the key points:
Little change on the English Baccalaureate
The proportion of pupils being entered for the E-Bacc was 22.9%, which represents a small increase on the previous year (21.7%).
The government introduced the E-Bacc in an attempt to encourage schools to enter pupils for more traditional GCSE subjects. This has not yet filtered through in the performance indicators, as the change was introduced after the current cohort of students chose their GCSE subjects. But the government will be keeping a close eye on this next year. They will want to see the percentage of pupils entered for E-Bacc subjects start to increase.
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