New figures from the North’s Department of Education show hundreds of young people are still being excluded from exams. This means they are invisible from government statistics designed to gauge performance.
Last year, about 1,600 students in year 12, the majority of them in non-grammar schools, did not take a single GCSE exam.
The ineligibility rate varies by school type – 10.9 per cent of year 12 pupils in non-grammar compared with only 1.5 per cent in grammar settings.
Only pupils who sit exams are included in Summary of Annual Examination Results returns and official GCSE pass rates. Ineligible pupils are not included in these statistics, which are used to compile league tables.
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