Assessment and Examination Performance: Comparison with England and its Regions, 2008

Statistics on ‘Assessment and Examination Performance in Wales: Comparison with England and its Regions, 2008’ include data for England and Wales for the period covering the 2007/08 academic year.  The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 26 June 2008.

The key points from the latest release are:

• Key Stage 1: The proportion of pupils in Wales achieving the expected level was slightly lower than in England for all subjects apart from Science, where the average for England and Wales was the same.
• Key Stage 2: Pupils in Wales performed better than their counterparts in England in English and Mathematics and performed the same in Science.
• Key Stage 3: The proportion of pupils in Wales achieving the expected level was lower than England.
• Key Stage 4: The proportion of pupils aged 15 in Wales achieving the level 2 threshold (a volume of qualifications at Level 2 equivalent to the volume of 5 GCSEs at grades A* to C) was lower than in England. There are more pupils in Wales not achieving any graded result at GCSE, ELQ or equivalent than in England.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5514
E-mail: school.stats@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

June 2010 (provisional - to be confirmed on the ‘Due Out Soon’ page)