Summary Statistics for Attainment and Initial Leaver Destinations, No. 3: 2021 Edition
This statistical publication provides information on the educational attainment and initial destinations of 2019/20 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 – 64.7 per cent of school leavers who did not achieve a pass at SCQF Level 3 or better entered a positive destination; this increases to 98.5 per cent of leavers who achieved at SCQF Level 7.
Table 8 shows that for 2019/20 school leavers whose highest qualification was at SCQF Level 5 the main destination is Further Education (55.3 per cent), while the majority of school leavers with one pass or more at SCQF Level 6 or 7 entered Higher Education.
The most common destination for school leavers with no passes at SCQF Level 3 or better is Further Education (27.4 per cent). The same is also true for those with SCQF Level 3 and 4 as their highest qualification (36.8 per cent and 48.1 per cent respectively).
| 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 | 1.6 | * | * | 3.2 | 56.6 | 87.9 | 44.2 |
| Further Education | 27.4 | 36.8 | 48.1 | 55.3 | 21.7 | 4.0 | 28.1 |
| Training | 16.4 | 20.9 | 14.2 | 4.5 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 3.7 |
| Employment | 13.8 | 11.4 | 17.8 | 27.2 | 16.3 | 5.6 | 16.2 |
| Voluntary Work | 0.7 | * | * | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 |
| Personal Skills Development |
4.9 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| Positive Destinations | 64.7 | 72.9 | 83.6 | 91.7 | 96.3 | 98.5 | 93.3 |
| Unemployed seeking | 12.3 | 14.2 | 9.6 | 5.6 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 4.1 |
| Unemployed Not Seeking | 17.2 | 10.0 | 5.3 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.8 |
| Unknown | 5.7 | 2.9 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.7 |
| Other Destinations | 35.3 | 27.1 | 16.4 | 8.3 | 3.7 | 1.5 | 6.7 |
| Number of Leavers | 964 | 1,036 | 4,780 | 10,360 | 19,286 | 11,028 | 47,454 |
1. Percentages may not total 100 due to rounding
* percentages based on less than 5 leavers have been suppressed for disclosure and quality reasons.
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