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Educational Outcomes for Scotland's Looked After Children 2010/11
This document is the second in a series of an annual summary of the educational outcomes of Scotland's looked after children.
Table 1 shows that the overall school attendance rate for looked after children was 88.6 per cent in 2010/11 compared with 93.1 per cent for all school children. This is an increase of 0.8 percentage points from 2009/10 for looked after children. The difference in attendance rates between looked after children and others were greatest in secondary stages S1 to S4.
Table 1: Percentage attendance by all pupils, looked after children, stage and gender, 2009/10 and 2010/11
| 2009/10 | 2010/11 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Pupils | Looked After Children | All Pupils | Looked After Children | |||||||||
| Stage | Girls | Boys | Total | Girls | Boys | Total | Girls | Boys | Total | Girls | Boys | Total |
| P1 | 94.7 | 94.6 | 94.7 | 93.1 | 94.4 | 93.7 | 94.5 | 94.5 | 94.5 | 93.9 | 93.4 | 93.6 |
| P2 | 94.7 | 94.7 | 94.7 | 93.5 | 93.6 | 93.5 | 94.7 | 94.7 | 94.7 | 93.5 | 94.7 | 94.1 |
| P3 | 94.9 | 95.0 | 95.0 | 93.6 | 93.9 | 93.7 | 94.9 | 94.9 | 94.9 | 93.5 | 93.9 | 93.7 |
| P4 | 95.0 | 95.1 | 95.1 | 93.0 | 93.1 | 93.1 | 94.9 | 95.0 | 94.9 | 94.0 | 93.7 | 93.8 |
| P5 | 95.0 | 95.0 | 95.0 | 94.1 | 93.6 | 93.8 | 94.9 | 94.9 | 94.9 | 93.7 | 93.3 | 93.4 |
| P6 | 95.0 | 94.8 | 94.9 | 94.0 | 92.9 | 93.4 | 94.8 | 94.7 | 94.8 | 94.1 | 92.9 | 93.5 |
| P7 | 95.1 | 94.8 | 95.0 | 94.5 | 92.7 | 93.5 | 95.0 | 94.6 | 94.8 | 93.9 | 92.6 | 93.2 |
| S1 | 93.2 | 92.9 | 93.1 | 86.2 | 83.0 | 84.5 | 93.2 | 92.8 | 93.0 | 90.5 | 86.5 | 88.4 |
| S2 | 91.4 | 91.4 | 91.4 | 81.1 | 80.1 | 80.6 | 91.3 | 91.5 | 91.4 | 82.2 | 81.0 | 81.6 |
| S3 | 89.4 | 90.1 | 89.8 | 73.5 | 76.0 | 74.9 | 89.5 | 90.1 | 89.8 | 77.6 | 78.7 | 78.2 |
| S4 | 89.6 | 90.5 | 90.0 | 78.8 | 82.9 | 80.9 | 89.5 | 90.6 | 90.0 | 80.0 | 83.1 | 81.6 |
| S5 | 90.8 | 91.8 | 91.3 | 87.9 | 88.7 | 88.3 | 90.5 | 91.6 | 91.0 | 90.6 | 91.1 | 90.9 |
| S6 | 91.7 | 92.9 | 92.3 | 92.9 | 97.4 | 94.6 | 91.3 | 92.3 | 91.8 | 91.2 | 94.4 | 92.9 |
| Primary | 94.9 | 94.9 | 94.9 | 93.7 | 93.4 | 93.5 | 94.8 | 94.8 | 94.8 | 93.8 | 93.5 | 93.6 |
| Secondary | 91.0 | 91.4 | 91.2 | 80.2 | 80.8 | 80.5 | 90.8 | 91.4 | 91.1 | 82.9 | 82.7 | 82.8 |
| Special | 90.6 | 90.6 | 90.6 | 84.9 | 84.7 | 84.8 | 89.9 | 90.1 | 90.0 | 82.0 | 83.2 | 82.9 |
| Scotland | 93.1 | 93.3 | 93.2 | 87.8 | 87.7 | 87.8 | 93.0 | 93.2 | 93.1 | 88.8 | 88.4 | 88.6 |
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