Educational Outcomes for Scotland's Looked After Children 2010/11

This document is the second in a series of an annual summary of the educational outcomes of Scotland's looked after children.


Table 1 shows that the overall school attendance rate for looked after children was 88.6 per cent in 2010/11 compared with 93.1 per cent for all school children. This is an increase of 0.8 percentage points from 2009/10 for looked after children. The difference in attendance rates between looked after children and others were greatest in secondary stages S1 to S4.

Table 1: Percentage attendance by all pupils, looked after children, stage and gender, 2009/10 and 2010/11

2009/10 2010/11
All Pupils Looked After Children All Pupils Looked After Children
Stage Girls Boys Total Girls Boys Total Girls Boys Total Girls Boys Total
P1 94.7 94.6 94.7 93.1 94.4 93.7 94.5 94.5 94.5 93.9 93.4 93.6
P2 94.7 94.7 94.7 93.5 93.6 93.5 94.7 94.7 94.7 93.5 94.7 94.1
P3 94.9 95.0 95.0 93.6 93.9 93.7 94.9 94.9 94.9 93.5 93.9 93.7
P4 95.0 95.1 95.1 93.0 93.1 93.1 94.9 95.0 94.9 94.0 93.7 93.8
P5 95.0 95.0 95.0 94.1 93.6 93.8 94.9 94.9 94.9 93.7 93.3 93.4
P6 95.0 94.8 94.9 94.0 92.9 93.4 94.8 94.7 94.8 94.1 92.9 93.5
P7 95.1 94.8 95.0 94.5 92.7 93.5 95.0 94.6 94.8 93.9 92.6 93.2
S1 93.2 92.9 93.1 86.2 83.0 84.5 93.2 92.8 93.0 90.5 86.5 88.4
S2 91.4 91.4 91.4 81.1 80.1 80.6 91.3 91.5 91.4 82.2 81.0 81.6
S3 89.4 90.1 89.8 73.5 76.0 74.9 89.5 90.1 89.8 77.6 78.7 78.2
S4 89.6 90.5 90.0 78.8 82.9 80.9 89.5 90.6 90.0 80.0 83.1 81.6
S5 90.8 91.8 91.3 87.9 88.7 88.3 90.5 91.6 91.0 90.6 91.1 90.9
S6 91.7 92.9 92.3 92.9 97.4 94.6 91.3 92.3 91.8 91.2 94.4 92.9
Primary 94.9 94.9 94.9 93.7 93.4 93.5 94.8 94.8 94.8 93.8 93.5 93.6
Secondary 91.0 91.4 91.2 80.2 80.8 80.5 90.8 91.4 91.1 82.9 82.7 82.8
Special 90.6 90.6 90.6 84.9 84.7 84.8 89.9 90.1 90.0 82.0 83.2 82.9
Scotland 93.1 93.3 93.2 87.8 87.7 87.8 93.0 93.2 93.1 88.8 88.4 88.6

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