Chamber and committees

Question reference: S6W-09749

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: 13 July 2022
Current status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 4 August 2022

Question

To ask the Scottish Government how many P1 children have taken (a) one of or (b) both parts of the Scottish National Standardised Assessments since 20 September 2018, broken down by (i) school year and (ii) local authority.

Answer

The following table provides an overview of P1 learners who have undertaken (a) one or (b) both parts of the Scottish National Standardised Assessments since 20 September 2018, broken down by (i) school year and (ii) local authority.

Please note that figures less than five have been suppressed to prevent the potential identification of individuals.

The row "n/a" denotes publicly-funded schools outwith local authority control.

Table 1 - Number of P1 Children undertaking SNSA since 20 September 2018 - by year and local authority

Year	2018-19		2019-20		2020-21		2021-22
Local Authority	one of	both	one of	both	one of	both	one of	both
Aberdeen City	13	1940	301	457	301	1941	19	2034
Aberdeenshire	28	2821	27	71	27	2563	42	2709
Angus	10	1205	**	**	**	863	16	908
Argyll and Bute	5	752	28	49	28	585	8	597
Clackmannanshire	10	499	46	445	46	555	**	484
Dumfries and Galloway	7	1321	12	113	12	1252	11	1284
Dundee City	5	1389	61	360	61	1216	27	1339
East Ayrshire	38	1223	61	59	61	818	9	937
East Dunbartonshire		1251	154	403	154	704	7	1154
East Lothian	18	1146	23	64	23	977	37	1049
East Renfrewshire	**	1233				1174	6	1149
Edinburgh	45	4340	240	258	240	3790	42	4026
Eileanan Siar	**	128		13		97		127
Falkirk	14	1647				1536	12	1488
Fife	16	1855					**	13
Glasgow City	566	3948	190	235	190	3263	330	3682
Highland	35	2077	42	394	42	1926	44	1919
Inverclyde	**	698	92	185	92	604	8	702
Midlothian	14	1090	91	221	91	1112	12	1170
Moray	**	942				903	15	895
North Ayrshire	31	1279	7	37	7	1071	12	1104
North Lanarkshire	50	3545	82	193	82	3563	60	3376
Orkney Islands	**	220	**	102	**	216	**	190
Perth and Kinross	21	1357	**	21	**	1267	33	1344
Renfrewshire	14	1797		77		1742	12	1775
Scottish Borders	**	1081	17	123	17	917	13	922
Shetland Islands		229	**	29	**	102	**	186
South Ayrshire	5	1002	60	93	60	1031	5	1015
South Lanarkshire	45	3282	35	24	35	2758	123	2947
Stirling	10	851	103	299	103	820	6	863
West Dunbartonshire	12	897	91	67	91	864	14	836
West Lothian	13	2160				2020	85	840
n/a		66				65		64

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