Quick question; what percentage of children go on to study A'levels ?

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Just want to know

Literally just A levels, or all Level 3 courses?

Staying after 16 is going to become pretty much compulsory.

At DCs school there is 300 in a normal school year, and about 200-250 in a sixth form year, about 20 join the sixth form each year from other schools (mainly private), but of those who leave some go to other sixth form provision (private or a great sixth form college, or the local FE college).

just A levels

Do you mean 3 or more A'levels or at least one? Or just people who do 4 A'levels. And I assume you mean A2s not just sitting the AS papers?

No such thing as a quick question! Are you including those that leave school, then come back and do A Levels at college in the evening? Or just 16 year olds? Don't know what the answer is, but you need to define your question much more clearly!

roughly 1/2 do A levels
1/3 do more vocational courses
1/6 leave education

oooo heck i meant students who do 4 A'levels

Don't know - but I chose our secondary school because the figures showed that some GIRLS did A level Maths. The 2 others we could have chosen had had NO girls doing them for 3 years.... normal, ordinary, highly thought of secondary schools

It's finding the overall numbers for the country that's a problem.

I'd think a large proportion of Grammar School children go on to A levels but level 3 vocationals are great for some careers, so some will do those. From a comprehensive though, it is going to be less doing A levels, but most do something. I imagine quite a few might do A levels and then drop out/change courses as they fnd the transition to A's difficult.