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2007 GCSE results
The average percentage for 16-year-olds with grades A-C at GCSE, including Maths and English, across England is 46.7% – for Lincolnshire's 8400 pupils taking GCSE at 16 it is 50.6% – the second highest for education authorities in the East Midlands (Rutland is 58%). Some schools in Lincolnshire are woefully below this level. For the St Clement's College in Skegness, it is 5% – the lowest in Lincolnshire (although it is a secondary modern) and the third lowest result in England, but for the low-performing comprehensive Joseph Ruston College in Lincoln, it is 13% – the government target is 25% for comprehensives. For the St Bede's Catholic Science College in Boston and the Castle Hills Community College in Gainsborough it is 8% – these are secondary moderns. Lincoln has no selective schools, although its Priory School is a surrogate. It is also the largest school in Lincolnshire. The best performing secondary modern is St George's Academy in Sleaford, which achieves results better than twelve comprehensives.
The average score by council district, for the % of pupils gaining 5 grades A-C including English and Maths, is (compare to average house price by district):
West Lindsey 57.4
South Kesteven 57.3
North Kesteven 53.0
South Holland 49.0
East Lindsey 47.3
Lincoln 47.0
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Boston 46.4
(North Lincolnshire Unitary Authority 40.9)
(North East Lincolnshire Unitary Authority 39.0)
The proportion of pupils at grammar schools in each district varies – it is 35% for Boston, 31% for South Kesteven, 23% for West Lindsey but only 16% for North Kesteven. East Lindsey, Boston and South Holland do not have any comprehensives. However, for South and North Kesteven, this will include supplementary pupils from Nottinghamshire and beyond.
2007 A-level results
Caistor Grammar School received the best A-level results for state schools in the East Midlands, followed by Bourne Grammar School, then Queen Elizabeth's High School in Gainsborough. Although North East Lincolnshire performs well under the England average at GCSE, at A-level it performs better - many areas in the Yorkshire & Humber region do not. North Lincolnshire also performs well under average at GCSE, but performs as well as Lincolnshire overall at A-level, being well above average. These two anomalies are due to the John Leggott College in Scunthorpe and the Franklin College in Grimsby – both excellent sixth form colleges. Lincolnshire gets the best results at A-level, on average, in the East Midlands (and some of the best in England for a traditional county). As found in other areas that have selective schools (e.g. Buckinghamshire and Warwickshire), the grammar schools significantly outclass the local independent schools at A-level.
From Wikipedia’s article on Community Learning in Partnership (CLIP), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3