Education minister Liz Truss unveiled the new performance indicator last week. It will show what proportion of boys and girls studying A levels are taking maths, further maths or physics at each school.
The move will see data from 2012/13 published next month, with statistics then being published within the annual league tables from January 2015.
Ms Truss said: “That will mean everyone is able to identify the science deserts – those areas of the country with low or no science teaching to an advanced level. Across the country, almost one in five schools have no pupils doing physics.
“We’ve seen, since the introduction of the EBacc, record numbers of pupils taking triple science GCSE. This new transparency measure will help carry that through to A level.
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