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Modern Foreign Languages at GCSE

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WQ.352/2023

WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE MINISTER FOR CHILDREN AND EDUCATION BY DEPUTY M.M. TADIER OF ST. BRELADE

QUESTION SUBMITTED ON MONDAY 25th SEPTEMBER 2023 ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON MONDAY 2nd OCTOBER 2023

Question

“Will the Minister provide the number of entries for Modern Foreign Languages for GCSE for each of the last 5 years, including overall numbers broken down by school; and will she further provide the numbers as a percentage of overall school population?”

Answer

Please see table below. Background notes

The GCSE exam data that we hold is a record of results data and it is extracted from SIMS through a standard reporting module that provides pupil exam results. This module is predicated on the DFE’s reporting practice that records GCSE results for pupils in year 11 where the exam may have been taken in year 11 or a prior year.

The Department does not hold exam entry data in a form that enables this question to be answered without very significant manual intervention that would take longer than then the time that we have available.

See below breakdown of Exam results by year with the caveat that some of those results may refer to exams that were taken in a previous year.

 The table displays data for % of Year 11 population, not overall school population, as the secondary schools cater for different age ranges such as 11-16, 11-18, 14-18.

The following subjects have been included:

Dutch

English for Speakers of Other languages

French

German

Italian

Mandarin

Polish

Portuguese

Russian

Spanish

 

Academic year

School Name

Number of Year 11 pupils

Pupils in Year 11 with one or more result in a Modern Language

The total number of results for Modern Languages

Percentage of pupils in Year 11 with one or more result in a Modern Language

2018/19

Grainville

115

45

83

39.1%

Haute Vallée

107

88

130

82.2%

Hautlieu

131

121

130

92.4%

Jersey College for Girls

103

97

119

94.2%

Le Rocquier

159

61

80

38.4%

Les Quennevais

107

45

56

42.1%

Victoria College

94

83

99

88.3%

Total

816

540

697

66.2%

2019/20

Grainville

134

58

79

43.3%

Haute Vallée

98

60

85

61.2%

Hautlieu

141

101

117

71.6%

Jersey College for Girls

97

92

117

94.8%

Le Rocquier

138

31

40

22.5%

Les Quennevais

127

49

55

38.6%

Victoria College

99

76

86

76.8%

Total

834

467

579

56.0%

2020/21

Grainville

113

41

59

36.3%

Haute Vallée

99

58

87

58.6%

Hautlieu

131

89

96

67.9%

Jersey College for Girls

110

107

154

97.3%

Le Rocquier

133

54

61

40.6%

Les Quennevais

139

57

65

41.0%

Victoria College

94

77

88

81.9%

Total

819

483

610

59.0%

2021/22

Grainville

114

40

57

35.1%

Haute Vallée

123

53

67

43.1%

Hautlieu

110

96

104

87.3%

Jersey College for Girls

96

91

99

94.8%

Le Rocquier

142

64

76

45.1%

Les Quennevais

142

52

60

36.6%

Victoria College

90

81

92

90.0%

Total

817

477

555

58.4%

2022/23

Grainville

119

45

61

37.8%

Haute Vallée

101

40

54

39.6%

Hautlieu

129

93

103

72.1%

Jersey College for Girls

100

84

104

84.0%

Le Rocquier

130

60

77

46.2%

Les Quennevais

159

57

67

35.8%

Victoria College

82

76

80

92.7%

Total

820

455

546

55.5%