Assessment and Examination Performance: Comparison with England and its Regions, 2010

Statistics on ‘Assessment and Examination Performance in Wales: Comparison with England and its Regions, 2010’ include data for England and Wales for the period covering the 2009/10 academic year.  The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 29 June 2010.

We have excluded a comparison of KS4 exam results between Wales and England. The Department for Education in England now only report on the number of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 whilst we continue to report on the number of pupils who were aged 15 as at 31 August prior to the start of the academic year. Therefore the data are no longer comparable.
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 England in all subjects with the exception of Science, where the average for Wales was slightly higher at 90 per cent.
• Key Stage 2: Pupils in Wales performed better than their counterparts in England in all subjects.
• Key Stage 3: The proportion of pupils in Wales achieving the expected level was lower than England for all subjects.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5968
E-mail: school.stats@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

June 2012 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due Out Soon' page)