One in seven schools miss target
Updated on 14 January 2009
One in seven schools are failing to ensure 30% of their pupils achieve five good GCSE grades, including English and maths, official figures showed.
More than 300,000 teenagers left secondary school last year without at least five C grades, including the two core subjects. Ministers announced last June they wanted no school to be in this position by 2011.
Statistics published by the Department for Children, Schools and Families show that 440 schools are falling short of this target, down from 631 last year.
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