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SQA attainment and school leaver qualifications 2006/07
17/03/2008
Scotland's Chief Statistician today published a range of statistics relating to the attainment of school pupils and leavers from Scottish schools.
The main findings are:
- Cumulative attainment has remained stable in recent years. Attainment is greater for females than males in all stages and in all categories
- Pupils registered for free school meals and those living in the most deprived 15% of datazones gained on average fewer tariff points than those who were not
- Chinese, Indian and Mixed race pupils in S4 attained the highest average tariff scores overall for the last three years
- 4.1 per cent of leavers obtained no awards at SCQF Level 3 or better, compared with 4.0 per cent in 2005/06 and 4.3 per cent in 2004/05. At least one pass at SCQF Level 7 was obtained by 11.9 per cent of leavers, which is slightly down on the figure of 12.6 per cent in 2005/06
- A higher proportion of females than males leaving publicly funded schools achieved passes at all SCQF Levels, except where three or more passes at SCQF Level 7 were attained
- 93.4 per cent of leavers attained English at SCQF Levels 3 to 5 and 92.6 per cent attained these levels in Mathematics
- Nearly 64 per cent of leavers from publicly funded secondary and special schools with identified support needs had 5 or more qualifications at SCQF level 3 or above. 14 per cent had no qualifications at SCQF level 3 or above, while just over 10 per cent had at least one qualification at SCQF level 6 or more
School level data will be updated with 2007 post-appeal data on Scottish Schools Online by March 21.
National statistics are produced by professionally independent statistical staff.
2006/07 is the first year that analysis by category of additional support needs is published for school leavers.
In 2006/07, it has also been possible to present indicative statistics linking leaver destinations to qualifications for the first time.