Ethnicity and Educational Achievement Statistical Update
March 2025
My page entitled “Race” Section Two: Ethnicity and Educational Achievement: Data was written in early 2023 and can now be updated using DfE publications which contain a facility for readers to create their own data tables. Of course the changes since 2021/22 are quite small.
I provide links below to tables which I have created but GCE Advanced Level Sociology students and others may well enjoy creating their own tables too.
Data on School Readiness. The Original page contains data for 2019. I have not been able to find more recent data.
Recent data are now available here
Data on Key Stage 2 Performance.
The original page has Links to data for 2022. Now you may Click here for Key Stage 2 Performance Data 2023/24. Click on Attainment by pupil characteristics and then scroll down to Ethnicity to find the following Chart.
Key Stage 2 Performance data 2023/24
Click here for Key Stage 2 Performance data 2023/24
For more detailed information via Created Tables
Click here for Attainment of Expected Standards at KS Two by ethnicity and gender.
Click here for Attainment of Expected Standards at KS Two by ethnicity and free school meal eligibility.
Click here for Attainment of Expected Standards by ethnicity, gender and free school meal eligibility.
You may use the Create Tables facility to create many more similar tables.
Key Stage 4 Performance data 2023/24
Click here for Key Stage 4 Performance Data 2023/24
Scroll down to Attainment by Ethnicity to find Data on Attainment at Key Stage 4 in 2024 by the broad ethnic categories: Asian, Black, Chinese, Mixed , Other and White
Click here for data based on detailed subdivisions within these broad ethnic groups.
Click here for FSM, Gender ethnicity combined attainment 8 2023/24
Click here for ethnicity and Gender attainment 8 2023/2024
Click here for ethnicity and fsm attainment 8 2023/2024
For Further Subdivisions:
Click here for Average Attainment 8 score by Ethnicity, Gender and Free School Meal Eligibility 2023/24.
Click here for Percentage of pupils achieving grades 5 or above in English and Mathematics GCSEs by Ethnicity, Gender, and Free School Meal Eligibility 2023/24
Click here for Percentage of pupils achieving grades 5 or above in the English Baccalaureate
Ethnicity and Advanced level Achievement
Click here for A level and other 16-18 results: 2023 /24 [revised] and click here for excellent table on A Level results by ethnicity, gender and free school meal eligibility 23/24. There are substantial gaps in achievement of higher A Level grades as between Chinese students and students of other ethnicities. Click here for a more detailed classification of ethnicities and A Level attainment.
Key Stage Five Ethnicity and Subject Choice
Click here for Ethnicity and Key Stage 5 subject choice.
Ethnicity and Access to Higher Education
Data on Ethnicity and Access to Higher Education The original page has Links to data for 2020/21 . Now you may click here for Widening Participation in higher education published October24 which has data for 2022/23 Once you reach the page scroll down to free school meals, gender and ethnic group.
Click here and here for a table of the above data.
Ethnicity and Undergraduate Degree Results [I have retained the link from the original page which refers to 2020/21 data. No further updates are as yet available.]
You may click here
to access recent data on ethnicity and degree classification. The data refer only to broad ethnic categories and the bracketed percentages refer to the percentages of graduates in each ethnic category who were awarded First Class degrees. In 2020/21 and 2021/22. Asian [33.3% and 27.5%]; Black [20.0% and 17.3%]}; Mixed [35.6% and 31,3%]; White [39.4% and 36.1%]; Other [30.8% and 25.1%].
- Section One: The Meanings of "Race" and Ethnicity - Click Here
- Section Two: Ethnicity and Educational Achievement: Data Click Here
- Section Three: Ethnicity and Educational Achievement : Essay - Click Here
- For a PowerPoint on “Race”, Ethnicity and Educational Achievement. - Click here