School League Tables 1996

English colleges

KEY TO THE TABLES

National averages: GCSE - 44.5% gaining five or more A*-C. Unauthorised absence, by percentage of half days missed - 1.1%.

A-Lev: Average points for students taking two or more - 18.3

GCSE: Percentage of pupils aged 15 in September 1994 gaining five or more A*-C grades.

Type - There are three pieces of information for each school in England: institution type (i), selection policy (ii), and whether mixed or single sex (iii).

i. C - county, IND - independent, V - voluntary, G - grant maintained, CTC - city technology college, SA - special agreement.

ii. COMP - comprehensive, SEL - selective, NONS - non-selective independent, NA - not applicable.

iii. B - boys, G - girls, M - mixed.

Wales: L - local authority maintained, G - grant maintained, I - independent, S - special.

AA - Percentage of half days missed through authorised absence

UA - Percentage of half days missed through unauthorised absence

AA+UA - Authorised absence plus unauthorised absence (Wales only). @ - assisted places

N0 - Number of candidates

Where a column is blank, no information has been received.

Schools are ranked within each local authority by percentage of pupils gaining 5 or more GCSEs at A*-C. Where two or more schools score the same, they are listed alphabetically.

NO A-LEV

Camden

La Swap 284 15.7

Kingsway College 191 10.7

The Working Men's College

Greenwich

Woolwich College 74 8.3

Eltham Sixth Form Centre 15 6.1

Hackney

Hackney Community College 56 12.7

Cordwainers College

Hammersmith and Fulham

William Morris Academy 42 13.5

Hammersmith & West London College 94 7.4

Islington

City & Islington College 314 11.8

Kensington and Chelsea

St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College 153 12.7

Kensington & Chelsea College 2 11.0

Lambeth

Lambeth College 23 9.3

Morley College 1 4.0

The Tenison-Brooke Centre

Lewisham

Christ The King Sixth Form College 162 14.2

Hillsyde 128 10.9

Lewisham College 26 5.8

Southwark

Southwark College 42 8.7

Tower Hamlets

Tower Hamlets College 98 10.9

Wandsworth

St Francis Xavier Sixth Form College 189 12.8

Westminster College 61 8.1

South Thames College 76 7.6

Westminster, City of

City of Westminster College 99 6.5

Barking and Dagenham

Barking College 55 6.1

Barnet

Woodhouse College 339 19.4

Barnet College 228 9.0

Hendon College 32 5.3

Bexley

Bexley College 57 5.5

Brent

John Kelly Tech College Sixth Form Centre 8 9.5

The College of North West London 10 4.7

Bromley

Orpington College of FE 402 11.2

Bromley College of F & HE 49 5.5

Croydon

John Ruskin College 341 15.4

Coulsdon College 292 11.9

Croydon College 205 10.4

Ealing

Ealing Tertiary College 135 10.6

Enfield

Enfield College 54 10.8

Southgate College 95 7.0

Capel Manor Horticultural & Environmental Centre

Haringey

The College of North East London 32 6.0

Harrow

St Dominic's Sixth Form College 223 15.9

Greenhill College, Harrow 251 13.4

Weald College 406 11.7

Stanmore College 127 10.8

Havering

Havering Sixth Form College 472 13.6

Havering College of F & HE 190 10.8

Hillingdon

Abbotsfield-Swakeleys Schools 32 12.3

Uxbridge College 126 9.4

Hounslow

West Thames College 88 10.0

Kingston-upon-Thames

Kingston College 397 11.0

Merton

Phoenix College 41 11.3

Merton College 137 9.8

Newham

Newham Sixth Form College 167 12.8

Newham College of FE 108 10.8

Redbridge

Redbridge College 33 6.5

Richmond-upon-Thames

Richmond-upon-Thames College 789 14.5

Sutton

Carshalton College 4 8.0

Waltham Forest

Leyton Sixth Form College 216 11.5

Sir George Monoux Sixth Form College 280 11.2

Waltham Forest College 69 5.3

Durham

Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College 364 17.2

Derwentside College 115 11.7

New College Durham 72 10.2

East Durham Community College 62 9.4

Bishop Auckland College 4 6.5

Darlington College of Tech 5 2.8

Durham College of Agriculture & Horticulture

Gateshead

Gateshead College 71 6.7

Hartlepool

Hartlepool Sixth Form College 163 11.9

Hartlepool College of FE 40 10.5

Middlesbrough

St Mary's RC College 178 16.1

Middlesbrough College 180 12.1

Teesside Tertiary College 41 11.1

Cleveland College of Art & Design

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Dame Allan's Schools Centre 96 26.1

Newcastle College 149 9.0

North Tyneside

Tynemouth College 280 14.2

North Tyneside College 55 8.4

Northumberland

Northumberland College 34 8.7

Kirkley Hall College

Redcar and Cleveland

Prior Pursglove College 274 20.0

South Park Sixth Form College 230 15.9

Cleveland Tertiary College 96 12.1

South Tyneside

South Tyneside College 296 10.9

Stockton on Tees

Bede College 129 18.2

Stockton Sixth Form College 239 16.4

Stockton & Billingham College of FE 6 9.0

Sunderland

City of Sunderland College

Bolton

South College, Bolton 131 14.2

North Bolton Sixth Form College 252 12.5

Bolton College 16 4.1

Bury

Holy Cross College 397 15.2

Bury College 362 14.8

Cheshire

Sir John Deane's College 466 21.8

The Congleton Sixth Form 125 19.5

Priestley College 212 16.7

Widnes Sixth Form College 330 14.5

South Cheshire College 167 13.3

Halton College 14 11.4

Macclesfield College 38 8.9

Warrington Collegiate Institute 13 7.2

West Cheshire College 102 6.5

Mid-Cheshire College of FE 17 4.9

Reaseheath College

Cumbria

Workington Sixth Form Centre 57 17.1

Barrow-in-Furness Sixth Form College 261 16.7

Carlisle College 32 9.5

Furness College 4 9.0

West Cumbria College 14 5.5

Kendal College 9 3.8

Cumbria College of Art & Design

Newton Rigg College

Knowsley

Knowsley Community College 94 9.7

Lancashire

Runshaw College 474 18.3

Cardinal Newman College 351 17.7

St Mary's College 259 16.8

The Blackpool Sixth Form College 413 15.2

Nelson & Colne College 282 14.5

Blackburn College 254 14.4

Preston College 186 14.4

Accrington & Rossendale College 91 11.7

Burnley College 68 11.6

Blackpool & The Fylde College 130 9.6

Lancaster & Morecambe College 28 6.3

Skelmersdale College 25 5.9

Myerscough College

Liverpool

City of Liverpool Community College 107 8.7

Manchester

Loreto College 211 16.2

Xaverian College 440 14.5

Shena Simon College 91 11.6

Manchester College of Arts & Tech 28 6.1

City College Manchester 14 4.8

Oldham

Oldham Sixth Form College 467 16.2

Oldham College 12 2.3

Rochdale

Hopwood Hall College 150 12.7

Salford

Eccles College 249 14.6

De La Salle College 100 12.7

Pendleton College 138 11.8

Salford College

Sefton

King George V College 400 20.3

Southport College 54 9.9

Hugh Baird College 157 9.7

St Helens

Carmel College 316 18.8

St Helens College 16 6.1

Stockport

Aquinas College 349 18.7

The Ridge Danyers College, Stockport 716 15.8

North Area College 104 10.6

Stockport College of F & HE 70 7.9

Tameside

Hyde-Clarendon College 205 15.0

Ashton-under-Lyne Sixth Form College 269 13.7

Tameside College of Tech 39 10.0

Trafford

South Trafford College 137 8.5

North Trafford College of FE

Wigan

Winstanley College 531 18.2

St John Rigby RC Sixth Form College 326 16.1

Wigan & Leigh College 336 12.6

Wirral

Birkenhead Sixth Form College 286 14.8

Wirral Metropolitan College 67 7.6

Barnsley

Barnsley College 335 14.8

Bradford

Bradford & Ilkley Community College 64 9.0

Keighley College 31 8.2

Shipley College 5 6.4

Calderdale

Calderdale College 19 10.5

Doncaster

Doncaster College 79 7.5

East Riding of Yorkshire

East Yorkshire College of FE 4 13.5

Beverley College of FE 10 7.4

Bishop Burton College

Kingston upon Hull, City of

Wyke Sixth Form College 254 15.4

Wilberforce Sixth Form College 253 14.6

Hull College 71 9.2

Kirklees

Greenhead College 458 22.2

Huddersfield New College 301 15.2

Dewsbury College 52 11.4

Huddersfield Technical College 54 10.6

Leeds

Notre Dame Sixth Form College 237 18.3

Park Lane College 108 12.0

Leeds College of Tech 27 11.3

City of Leeds College of Music 2 10.0

Airedale & Wharfedale College 42 7.7

Joseph Priestley College 7 6.6

Thomas Danby College 2 5.0

Leeds College of Art & Design

Leeds College of Building

North East Lincolnshire

Franklin Sixth Form College 285 14.1

Cleethorpes Sixth Form 90 13.7

Grimsby College 44 9.2

North Lincolnshire

John Leggott Sixth Form College 507 18.2

The Brigg Sixth Form College 38 16.0

North Lindsey College 9 2.7

North Yorkshire

St Aidans & St John Fishers Associated Sixth Form 187 21.0

Selby College 126 18.8

Scarborough Sixth Form College 231 17.7

Craven College 3 10.0

Harrogate College 45 7.9

Yorkshire Coast College of F & HE 8 6.9

Rotherham

Thomas Rotherham College 317 14.6

Rotherham College of Arts & Tech 24 8.1

Rother Valley College 2 7.0

Dearne Valley College 1 6.0

Sheffield

The Sheffield College 588 14.7

Wakefield

New College Pontefract 308 17.9

Wakefield College 243 14.7

York, City of

York Sixth Form College 336 20.1

York College of F & HE 12 7.7

Askham Bryan College of Agriculture & Horticulture

Derbyshire

South East Derbyshire College 230 13.9

Mackworth College, Derby 302 11.4

North Derbyshire Tertiary College 65 10.8

Chesterfield College 100 10.1

Derby Tertiary College, Wilmorton 182 10.1

High Peak College 6 6.7

Broomfield College

Leicestershire

The Rutland College 144 16.5

Wyggeston & Queen Elizabeth I College 470 14.0

Loughborough College 100 12.5

Gateway Sixth Form College 218 11.7

Regent College 163 10.3

Melton Mowbray College 50 9.0

Charles Keene College of FE 49 7.1

Leicester South Fields College 5 5.6

Wigston College of FE 2 2.0

Brooksby College

Coalville Technical College 1 0.0

Lincolnshire

Sleaford Schools Joint Sixth Form 130 21.9

North Hykeham Joint Sixth Form 108 20.4

Stamford College 124 13.5

Boston College 112 11.6

North Lincolnshire College 109 10.5

Grantham College 61 7.6

Northamptonshire

Daventry Tertiary College 102 13.9

Ferrers Huxlow Manor Rushden Consortium 101 12.9

Tresham Institute 73 11.5

Northampton College 159 9.7

Moulton College 1 4.0

Nottinghamshire

Bilborough Sixth Form College 238 15.3

Parkview Sixth Form 83 14.8

High Pavement Sixth Form College 328 13.5

Broxtowe College Nottingham 76 12.1

Lakeview Sixth Form Centre 73 12.1

Newark & Sherwood College 31 10.1

Clarendon College 101 9.8

South Nottingham College 79 9.3

The People's College, Nottingham 20 7.3

West Nottinghamshire College 24 7.3

North Nottinghamshire College 29 7.0

Arnold & Carlton College 22 6.3

Basford Hall College 2 6.0

Brackenhurst College

Birmingham

Cadbury Sixth Form College 423 14.4

Sutton Coldfield College 375 13.6

Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College 83 12.1

Josiah Mason Sixth Form College 126 12.0

South Birmingham College 156 9.1

Bournville College of FE 76 7.0

East Birmingham College 2 7.0

Handsworth College 4 6.8

Matthew Boulton College of F & HE 177 6.3

Birmingham College of Food Tourism & Creative Studies

North Birmingham College

Coventry

Tile Hill College of FE 36 8.4

Coventry Technical College 35 7.8

Henley College Coventry 35 6.9

Hereward College of FE 1 0.0

Dudley

King Edward VI College Stourbridge 474 25.3

Halesowen College 324 12.5

Dudley College of Tech 149 8.5

Stourbridge College 58 8.5

Hereford and Worcester

Evesham College 1 20.0

Hereford Sixth Form College 380 16.2

Worcester Sixth Form College 400 15.5

Worcester College of Tech 95 11.1

Kidderminster College 48 8.5

North East Worcestershire College 67 7.9

Herefordshire College of Tech 19 7.6

Herefordshire College of Art & Design

Holme Lacy College

Sandwell

Rowley Regis College 190 11.9

Sandwell College 109 6.7

Shropshire

Shrewsbury Sixth Form College 369 20.2

The North Shropshire College 86 17.3

New College Telford 345 16.0

Ludlow College 147 15.6

Shrewsbury College of Arts & Tech 56 9.5

Telford College of Arts & Tech 2 5.0

Walford College, Shropshire

Solihull

Solihull Sixth Form College 706 15.3

The Solihull College 114 7.9

Staffordshire

Aelfgar Centre 60 16.2

City of Stoke-on-Trent College 595 15.9

Leek College of FE & School of Art 16 13.7

Kidsgrove Sixth Form 49 10.7

Newcastle-under-Lyme College 224 10.5

Stafford College 204 10.4

Burton-upon-Trent Technical College 82 8.2

Stoke-on-Trent College 49 6.1

Tamworth & Lichfield Colleges 3 4.7

Cannock Chase Technical College 4 4.0

Rodbaston College

Walsall

The Manor Farm & Shelfield Sixth Form Consortium 24 11.9

Walsall College of Arts & Tech 26 8.9

Warwickshire

King Edward VI College 364 15.8

Stratford-upon-Avon College 104 12.9

Warwickshire College, Royal Leamington Spa & Moreton Morrell 192 10.6

Rugby College of FE 10 8.2

North Warwickshire & Hinckley College 107 8.1

Wolverhamton

Wulfrun College 121 11.2

Bilston Community College 15 3.1

Bedfordshire

Luton Sixth Form College 579 12.9

Dunstable College 31 6.4

Bedford College 72 5.4

Barnfield College 6 5.3

Buckinghamshire

Amersham & Wycombe College 194 7.7

Milton Keynes College 41 7.1

Aylesbury College 32 6.9

Cambridgeshire

Hills Road Sixth Form College 575 23.9

Long Road Sixth Form College 459 15.7

Isle College 40 9.6

Cambridge Regional College 109 8.7

Peterborough Regional College 111 8.5

Huntingdonshire Regional College 22 7.4

Cambridgeshire College of Agriculture & Horticulture

Essex

The Sixth Form College, Colchester 790 18.5

SEEVIC College 507 13.8

South East Essex College 52 13.7

Braintree College 149 13.6

Palmers College 424 13.2

Harlow College 188 11.1

Epping Forest College 365 11.0

Colchester Institute 104 9.6

Chelmsford College 119 8.0

Basildon College 59 6.8

Thurrock College

Hertfordshire

West Herts College 183 9.4

Oaklands College 294 8.9

North Hertfordshire College 70 8.6

Hertford Regional College 60 7.8

Norfolk

Dereham Sixth Form Centre 94 17.8

Paston Sixth Form College 141 15.3

East Norfolk Sixth Form College 192 14.9

Norwich City College of F & HE 195 12.2

Great Yarmouth College of FE 98 9.0

Norfolk College of Arts & Tech 98 7.3

Easton College

Suffolk

Suffolk College 112 8.2

West Suffolk College 29 6.6

Lowestoft College 17 5.9

Otley College

Bath and North East Somerset

City of Bath College 119 10.0

Norton Radstock College 7 3.4

Bristol, City of

St Brendan's Sixth Form College 350 13.3

City of Bristol College

College of Care & Early Education

Cornwall

Truro College 321 18.2

Penwith College 225 14.4

St Austell College 287 13.5

Cornwall College 69 12.1

Devon

North Devon College 236 15.8

East Devon College 73 15.7

Exeter College 620 12.7

South Devon College 187 11.2

Plymouth College of FE 87 8.6

Bicton College of Agriculture

Plymouth College of Art & Design

Dorset

Beaminster-Colfox Combined Sixth Form 50 16.8

Weymouth College 270 14.2

Bournemouth & Poole College of FE 299 8.9

Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design

Kingston Maurward College

Gloucestershire

Royal Forest of Dean College 90 17.2

Cirencester College 198 15.5

Gloucestershire College of Arts & Tech 174 12.1

Stroud College of FE 33 8.4

Hartpury College 4 5.0

North Somerset

Weston College 57 6.7

Somerset

Strode College 168 16.7

Richard Huish College, Taunton 337 16.2

Yeovil College 271 15.1

Bridgwater College 147 12.3

Somerset College of Arts & Tech 92 11.2

Cannington College

South Gloucestershire

Filton College 297 12.9

Soundwell College 42 8.6

Wiltshire

New College Swindon 349 14.8

Chippenham College 76 12.1

Swindon College 118 10.2

Salisbury College 69 9.0

Trowbridge College 15 8.2

Lackham College

Berkshire

Bracknell & Wokingham College 62 10.6

Newbury College 53 10.5

Reading College of Arts & Tech 106 9.6

East Berkshire College 234 8.1

Berkshire College of Agriculture

Berkshire College of Art & Design

East Sussex

Varndean College 272 16.5

Bexhill College 287 15.5

Brighton Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College 382 14.7

The Park College Eastbourne 253 13.6

Lewes Tertiary College 255 13.1

Eastbourne College of Arts & Tech 43 9.4

Hastings College of Arts & Tech 10 9.2

Brighton College of Tech 107 7.3

Plumpton College

Hampshire

Alton College 387 18.0

Peter Symonds' College 674 17.6

Havant College 471 16.9

The Sixth Form College Farnborough 507 16.2

Barton Peveril College 669 15.4

Brockenhurst College 440 14.6

Fareham College 194 14.5

Queen Mary's College 523 14.5

St Vincent College 249 13.9

The South Downs College 221 13.3

Totton College 176 13.0

Cricklade College 195 12.9

Taunton's College 320 12.8

Itchen College 207 12.2

Portsmouth College 159 10.1

Southampton City College 32 8.8

Farnborough College of Tech 53 6.4

Basingstoke College of Tech 26 6.0

Eastleigh College 6 5.2

Highbury College, Portsmouth 11 5.1

Sparsholt College Hampshire

Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight College 28 7.4

Kent

West Kent College 255 10.2

Mid-Kent College of Higher & FE 173 9.7

Canterbury College 168 9.6

Thanet College 102 7.7

South Kent College 75 7.6

Hadlow College

North West Kent College of Tech

Oxfordshire

Didcot Sixth Form 83 20.6

The Henley College 327 13.2

Oxford College of FE 102 10.6

West Oxfordshire College 51 10.4

Abingdon College 44 8.4

North Oxfordshire College & School of Art 51 7.3

Rycotewood College

Surrey

Farnham College 175 19.1

Godalming College 558 18.6

Esher College 375 16.9

Halliford St David's 33 15.8

Woking College 123 15.8

Strode's College 236 14.0

Brooklands College 240 13.8

Reigate College 334 13.2

Guildford College of F & HE 204 10.9

Spelthorne College 62 9.5

North East Surrey College of Tech 121 7.7

East Surrey College, Redhill 33 7.2

Merrist Wood College

West Sussex

Worthing Sixth Form College 384 16.8

The College of Richard Collyer in Horsham 306 16.5

Haywards Heath College 294 15.9

Chichester College of Arts Science & Tech 165 12.8

Northbrook College, Sussex 22 5.5

Crawley College 30 4.6

West Sussex College of Agriculture & Horticulture