Publication - Statistics

Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Levels 2016-17

Published: 12 December 2017
Directorate: Learning Directorate
Part of: Children and families, Education
ISBN: 9781788514736

This contains the results of the achievement of curriculum for excellence levels 2016-17.

School education statistics

Chapter 5: Achievement of CfE levels by Urban Rural Classification

NOTE: The statistics in this chapter have been superseded. Revised figures, and further information on the revisions, can be found in the Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Levels 2018/19 publication which can be found here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/achievement-curriculum-excellence-cfe-levels-2018-19/

The percentage of P1 and P4 pupils that achieved the expected level for their stage was highest for pupils living in accessible rural areas. Performance was highest for P7 pupils from large urban and accessible rural areas.
Performance tended to be lower for pupils from remote small towns (and remote rural areas in the case of some P4 pupils).

The percentage of P1 pupils achieving the expected level for their stage was highest for pupils from accessible rural areas and lowest for pupils from remote small towns, for all four organisers.

The percentage of P4 pupils achieving the level was highest for pupils from accessible rural areas; performance was lowest for pupils from remote small towns and remote rural areas.

Performance at P7 tended to be highest for pupils from large urban areas and accessible rural areas; whereas a lower percentage of pupils from remote small towns achieved the level in each organiser.

The percentage of S3 pupils achieving Third Level or better was generally high across most categories for all organisers (88 – 92 per cent), apart from pupils from remote small towns where there was slightly lower performance (e.g. 82 per cent for numeracy).

Table 5.1: Percentage of P1 pupils achieving Early Level by Urban Rural Classification^[12], 2016/17

Urban Rural Classification	Reading	Writing	Listening & Talking	Numeracy
Large urban areas	81	78	87	85
Other urban areas	80	77	85	84
Accessible small towns	82	78	86	84
Remote small towns	75	73	81	79
Accessible rural areas	85	82	89	87
Remote rural areas	78	75	82	79
Unknown^[13]	61	58	68	65
Total	80	77	85	83

Table 5.2: Percentage of P4 pupils achieving First Level by Urban Rural Classification, 2016/17

Urban Rural Classification	Reading	Writing	Listening & Talking	Numeracy
Large urban areas	79	73	85	77
Other urban areas	76	70	82	74
Accessible small towns	77	71	83	76
Remote small towns	75	68	82	70
Accessible rural areas	80	74	86	77
Remote rural areas	75	68	81	71
Unknown^[14]	65	58	70	62
Total	77	71	83	75

Table 5.3: Percentage of P7 pupils achieving Second Level by Urban Rural Classification, 2016/17

	Reading	Writing	Listening & Talking	Numeracy
Large urban areas	78	71	83	74
Other urban areas	75	68	81	69
Accessible small towns	77	69	83	71
Remote small towns	69	59	75	62
Accessible rural areas	78	71	84	73
Remote rural areas	73	64	78	66
Unknown^[15]	61	52	66	56
Total	76	69	81	70

Table 5.4: Percentage of S3 pupils achieving Third Level or better by Urban Rural Classification, 2016/17

Urban Rural Classification	Reading	Writing	Listening & Talking	Numeracy
Large urban areas	90	88	91	88
Other urban areas	91	89	91	89
Accessible small towns	91	90	92	88
Remote small towns	86	85	88	82
Accessible rural areas	91	90	92	91
Remote rural areas	91	90	92	88
Unknown^[16]	79	79	79	76
Total	90	89	91	88

Table 5.5: Percentage of S3 pupils achieving Fourth Level by Urban Rural Classification, 2016/17

Urban Rural Classification	Reading	Writing	Listening & Talking	Numeracy
Large urban areas	51	49	52	55
Other urban areas	51	48	51	56
Accessible small towns	53	51	55	56
Remote small towns	43	40	44	51
Accessible rural areas	54	51	53	61
Remote rural areas	52	50	54	57
Unknown^[17]	34	31	34	36
Total	51	48	51	56

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