Summary Statistics for Attainment and Initial Leaver Destinations, No. 2: 2020 Edition
This statistical publication provides information on the educational attainment and initial destinations of 2018/19 school leavers from publicly funded schools in Scotland.
Chapter 5: School Leaver Attainment and Destinations
- School leavers with higher attainment levels are more likely to go on to a positive destination - 74.4 per cent of school leavers who did not achieve a pass at SCQF Level 3 or better entered a positive destination; this increases to 99.2 per cent of leavers who achieved at SCQF Level 7.
Table 8 shows that for school leavers whose highest qualification was at SCQF Level 5 the main destination is Further Education (50.7 per cent), while the majority of school leavers with one pass or more at SCQF Level 6 or 7 enter Higher Education.
The most common destination for school leavers with no passes at SCQF Level 3 or better is Further Education (30.3 per cent), with a similar pattern present for those with SCQF Level 3 as their highest qualification (31.6 per cent).
Table 8: Percentage of school leavers by highest SCQF Level achieved and initial destinations category, 2018/191
| Initial Destination |
No passes at SCQF 3 or better | SCQF Level 3 |
SCQF Level 4 |
SCQF Level 5 |
SCQF Level 6 |
SCQF Level 7 |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Higher Education | 1.5 | * | * | 3.4 | 55.1 | 86.8 | 40.3 |
| Further Education | 30.3 | 31.6 | 46.5 | 50.7 | 18.7 | 4.1 | 27.3 |
| Traininga | 19.4 | 18.7 | * | 4.1 | 0.9 | * | 3.5 |
| Employment | 17.4 | 17.9 | 25.6 | 35.1 | 22.8 | 7.2 | 22.9 |
| Voluntary Work | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.6 |
| Personal Skills Developmentb | 4.8 | * | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | * | 0.5 |
| Positive Destinations | 74.4 | 72.8 | 86.3 | 94.1 | 98.1 | 99.2 | 95.0 |
| Unemployed seeking | 11.7 | 14.4 | 8.9 | 4.1 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 3.1 |
| Unemployed Not Seeking | 12.1 | 11.2 | 3.8 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.4 |
| Unknown | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| Other Destinations | 25.6 | 27.2 | 13.7 | 5.9 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 5.0 |
| Number of Leavers | 1,113 | 925 | 5,401 | 12,196 | 20,613 | 9,512 | 49,760 |
1. Percentages may not total 100 due to rounding
* percentages based on less than 5 have been suppressed for disclosure and quality reasons.
a. For 2018/19, support previously recorded as Activity Agreements is recorded in the Training category. For more information see section 6.2.
b. There has been a change to the way in which Personal Skills Development activity is categorised in these statistics. For more information see section 6.1.
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