Data set from Key stage 4 performance

Degree of rurality of school location data

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Published 27 February 2025

Last updated 27 February 2025

School location based regional and national level headline performance measures in state-funded schools by regional degree of rurality in 2023/24.

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Data set details

• Theme: School and college outcomes and performance
• Publication: Key stage 4 performance
• Release: Academic year 2023/24
• Number of rows: 68
• Geographic levels: National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Average Attainment 8 score
  • Average EBacc APS score
  • Average Progress 8 score
  • Percentage of pupils achieving grades 4 or above in English and maths GCSEs
  • Percentage of pupils achieving grades 5 or above in English and maths GCSEs
  • Percentage of pupils entering English and maths GCSEs
  • Percentage of pupils achieving grades 4 or above in the EBacc
  • Percentage of pupils achieving grades 5 or above in the EBacc
  • Percentage of pupils entering the EBacc
  • Number of pupils at the end of KS4
  • Number of schools
  • Sum of Attainment 8 scores
  • Sum of EBacc APS scores
  • Sum of Progress 8 scores
  • Number of pupils included in Progress 8 measure
  • Number of pupils achieving grades 4 or above in English and maths GCSEs
  • Number of pupils achieving grades 5 or above in English and maths GCSEs
  • Number of pupils entering English and maths GCSEs
  • Number of pupils achieving grades 4 or above in the EBacc
  • Number of pupils achieving grades 5 or above in the EBacc
  • Number of pupils entering the EBacc
  • Progress 8 lower 95% confidence interval
  • Progress 8 upper 95% confidence interval
• Filters:
  • Degree of rurality - school location
• Time period: 2023/24

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	version	level_methodology	establishment_type_group	ru11ind_school_location	t_schools	t_pupils	t_att8	avg_att8	t_entbasics	pt_entbasics	t_l2basics_95	pt_l2basics_95	t_l2basics_94	pt_l2basics_94	t_ebacc_e_ptq_ee	pt_ebacc_e_ptq_ee	t_ebacc_95	pt_ebacc_95	t_ebacc_94	pt_ebacc_94	t_ebaccaps	avg_ebaccaps	t_inp8calc	t_p8score	avg_p8score	p8score_ci_low	p8score_ci_upp
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England			Revised	School location	State-funded schools (LA)	1 Urban - Major conurbation	1456	228447	10806853.81	47.3	219713	96.2	110709	48.5	152243	66.6	106216	46.5	47404	20.8	65840	28.8	966632.02	4.23	211894	12617.651	0.06	0.05	0.07
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England			Revised	School location	State-funded schools (LA)	2 Urban - Minor conurbation	144	22766	998513.75	43.9	21919	96.3	9773	42.9	14153	62.2	7894	34.7	3380	14.8	4876	21.4	87521.99	3.84	21642	-3068.954	-0.14	-0.16	-0.12
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England			Revised	School location	State-funded schools (LA)	3 Urban - City and town	1946	298195	13543530.12	45.4	286226	96	134043	45	192161	64.4	112479	37.7	50399	16.9	70907	23.8	1195886.79	4.01	281307	-23934.187	-0.09	-0.09	-0.08
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England			Revised	School location	State-funded schools (LA)	4 Rural - Town and fringe	378	55721	2570296	46.1	54290	97.4	25327	45.5	37090	66.6	19776	35.5	8802	15.8	12728	22.8	226242.61	4.06	53396	-1349.96	-0.03	-0.04	-0.01
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England			Revised	School location	State-funded schools (LA)	5 Rural - Village	84	10352	476732.25	46.1	10039	97	4773	46.1	6824	65.9	3924	37.9	1666	16.1	2389	23.1	42122.78	4.07	9844	-430.956	-0.04	-0.07	-0.02

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 24 variables

Variable name	Variable description
avg_att8	Average Attainment 8 score
avg_ebaccaps	Average EBacc APS score
avg_p8score	Average Progress 8 score
p8score_ci_low	Progress 8 lower 95% confidence interval
p8score_ci_upp	Progress 8 upper 95% confidence interval
pt_ebacc_94	Percentage of pupils achieving grades 4 or above in the EBacc
pt_ebacc_95	Percentage of pupils achieving grades 5 or above in the EBacc
pt_ebacc_e_ptq_ee	Percentage of pupils entering the EBacc
pt_entbasics	Percentage of pupils entering English and maths GCSEs
pt_l2basics_94	Percentage of pupils achieving grades 4 or above in English and maths GCSEs
pt_l2basics_95	Percentage of pupils achieving grades 5 or above in English and maths GCSEs
ru11ind_school_location	Degree of rurality - school location
t_att8	Sum of Attainment 8 scores
t_ebacc_94	Number of pupils achieving grades 4 or above in the EBacc
t_ebacc_95	Number of pupils achieving grades 5 or above in the EBacc
t_ebacc_e_ptq_ee	Number of pupils entering the EBacc
t_ebaccaps	Sum of EBacc APS scores
t_entbasics	Number of pupils entering English and maths GCSEs
t_inp8calc	Number of pupils included in Progress 8 measure
t_l2basics_94	Number of pupils achieving grades 4 or above in English and maths GCSEs
t_l2basics_95	Number of pupils achieving grades 5 or above in English and maths GCSEs
t_p8score	Sum of Progress 8 scores
t_pupils	Number of pupils at the end of KS4
t_schools	Number of schools

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Footnotes

1. Local authority, region, parliamentary constituency and the total (state-funded sector) figures cover achievements in state-funded schools only. They do not include pupils recently arrived from overseas and so will not match with state-funded figures in the national tables.
2. A Progress 8 score of 1.0 means pupils make on average a grade more progress than the national average of pupils with similar KS2 prior attainment in mainstream schools. Progress 8 should be interpreted alongside the associated confidence intervals. If the confidence intervals cross 0, then progress is not significantly different compared to pupils with similar KS2 prior attainment in mainstream schools.

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