Question reference: S5W-34496
- Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Stirling, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 12 January 2021
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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 |