Education statistics
A selected listing of education statistics available online.
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Scottish Education Statistics
- Scottish Government - Statistics in the Scottish Government which includes:
- Education, Skills, and Training - current
- School Education Statistics - statistics on school education in Scotland, including pupil and teacher characteristics, and attainment and qualification results
- Scottish Government Annual Statistical Publications
- Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence Levels - This contains the results of the Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Levels data collection, detailing pupils’ achievement (based on Teachers' Professional Judgements) in reading, writing, listening and talking and numeracy
- Summary Statistics for Attainment and Initial Leaver Destinations - This contains the results of the initial leaver destination survey (S3-S6) and post appeal attainment
- Summary Statistics for Follow-up Leaver Destinations - This contains the results of the follow-up leaver destination survey (S3-S6)
- School Healthy Living Survey Statistics - Statistics on school meals and physical education provision
- Summary Statistics for Schools in Scotland - This contains the results of the annual pupil census, annual teacher census, pre-school data, school estate survey data. Attendance and absence data and exclusions data are also included but only on a biennial basis
- School Estates Statistics - Statistics on school estates including condition, suitability and new builds
- Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) - This contains an analysis of Scotland’s performance in The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). This is an international assessment of student attainment in reading, maths and science at age fifteen and takes place every three years
- Historic Publications - Links to publications previously released that are no longer current (listed by topic)
- Education Scotland - which includes Inspection Reports and Publications
- Scottish Funding Councils (SFC) which includes:
- College data collections - contains data on students and courses in Further Education Colleges in Scotland
- Research Excellence Framework (via UKRI site)
- Scottish Qualifications Agency Statistics - includes:
- Annual Statistical Report - Detailed statistics on SQA qualifications
UK Education Statistics
- Office for National Statistics - the official UK statistics site which includes:
- Department for Education - wide range of statistics covering education, training and life-long learning including:
- Performance tables
- Data, research and statistics
- Schools Data by Ward - educational data available at ward area level
- Trends In Education and Skills - access to a range of statistical evidence across the whole of the education spectrum, from the early years through to adult learning
- Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) - which includes:
- HEIDI - Higher Education Information Database
- Ofsted which includes:
Education Statistics from International Agencies
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) Directorate for Education, Statistics, Data and Indicators - which includes:
- Education at a glance 1998 - present - data and analysis on education, providing a rich, comparable and up-to-date array of indicators on education systems in the OECD’s 30 member countries and in a number of partner economies
- OECD Education Database - provides internationally comparable data on key aspects of education systems. The database covers: enrolments, graduates and new entrants by sex, age and level of education, teaching staff and expenditure
UNESCO Institute of Statistics which includes:
Unesco Database - education data by subject, region, country & year
Education Statistics from Other Countries
United States
National Center for Education Statistics - which includes:
- The Condition of Education - Annual Report - brings together the latest data from several sources
- United States Bureau of the Census - which includes:
- Educational Attainment - Detailed information from recent surveys and historical trends on selected topics
- Public School System Finances - include revenues, expenditures, debt, and assets (cash and security holdings) of elementary and secondary public school systems
- School Enrollment (including college) - Detailed information from recent surveys and historical trends in selected topic
Canada
- Education, training and learning statistics which includes:
- Education Indicators in Canada: Fact Sheets - set of statistical measures, or indicators, describing the education systems in Canada in terms of students, teachers, finances and outcomes
Australia
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