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Question reference: S5W-34496

  • Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Stirling, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: 12 January 2021
  • Current status: Answered by John Swinney on 19 January 2021

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of school leavers in the Stirling Council area have gone on to a positive destination in each year since 2007.


Answer

The percentage of school leavers in the Stirling Council area who have gone on to a positive follow-up destination is available on a consistent basis for 2009-10 to 2018-19 in table L2.1 of the Summary Statistics for Follow-up leaver Destinations publication: Summary Statistics for Follow-up leaver Destinations, No. 2: 2020 Edition - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) . The figures relate to the destinations of school leavers from publicly funded schools 9 months after the end of the relevant school year.

For 2009-10 onwards positive destinations are: Further Education, Higher Education, Employment, Training, Voluntary Work, Personal Skills Development and Activity Agreements.

Figures for 2007/08 and 2008/09 are available in archived publications but were produced using a different methodology and so are not directly comparable to those for 2009/10 onwards. For example, for these years school leavers undertaking Personal Skills Development activity could be recorded either as being in a positive destination or in an other destination depending on the details of the activity being undertaken.

Percentage of school leavers from publicly funded schools in Stirling in a positive follow-up destination

Year

Percentage of school leavers

in a positive follow-up destination

2018-19

93.9

2017-18

95.3

2016-17

93.9

2015-16

92.9

2014-15

91.2

2013-14

90.0

2012-13

87.9

2011-12

89.6

2010-11

86.2

2009-10

85.8

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2008-09

86.2

2007-08

83.8