To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students sat the Citizenship GCSE in (a) 2009, (b) 2010, (c) 2011, (d) 2012, (e) 2013 and (f) 2014.
Answered on
30 June 2014
Information on pupil entries in citizenship GCSE short courses is published in the “GCSE and equivalent results in England, 2012 to 2013 (revised)”[1] Statistical First Releases for each year. Information on the number of pupils entering citizenship GCSE full courses for 2010/11 to 2012/13 is provided in the following table. Prior to 2010/10, citizenship GCSE full courses did not exist. Provisional GCSE results for 2013/14 will be available in October 2014.
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 entering citizenship at GCSE1 | ||||||||||||
| Years: 2010/11 - 2012/132,3 | ||||||||||||
| Coverage: England | ||||||||||||
| Number of pupils | ||||||||||||
| 2010/11 | 8,339 | |||||||||||
| 2011/12 | 10,364 | |||||||||||
| 2012/13 | 10,707 | |||||||||||
| Source: Key stage 4 attainment data | ||||||||||||
| 1. Includes full course GCSEs only. | ||||||||||||
| 2. Discounting has been applied so that only the best grade is counted where pupils have taken the same subject more than once, and only one entry is counted in these circumstances. | ||||||||||||
| 3. Includes entries and achievements by these pupils in previous academic years. | ||||||||||||
[1] 2009/10 - https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4
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Department for Education
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