Maths and English
Moving on to take a look at the other group of subjects that are compulsory at Key Stage 4: maths and English.
As with science, virtually all schools (99.7%) sent at canada rcs data least one pupil on to study either maths or English at A-Level.[1] Just 1% sent no pupils on to study maths, and 1.3% sent no pupils on to study any type of English A-Level. Of the three English options, schools were far more likely to have sent no pupils on to study language and literature, and less likely to have sent none on to study English literature: this reflects the relative popularity of the subjects nationally.
when we break the data down by gender.
Less than 2% of schools that included at least 30 female pupils sent none of them on to study A-Level English. But nearly one in ten (9.4%) of those with at least 30 male pupils sent none of them on to A-Level English.
We also see a gender difference in maths: 5.4% of schools sent no girls on to A-Level maths, compared to just 1.6% of schools that sent no boys on. And more than half sent no girls on to further maths, compared to less than a third sending no boys on.