Stats/ area to consider

• Areas to consider

  • Achievement
  • Subject choices
  • Experiences/identities
• At the end of reception in 2019, girls were ahead of boys in all five areas of learning assessed: physical development, literacy, language, maths and personal, social, emotional development
• Girls do consistently better than boys in key stage 1-3, especially in English, and this gap steadily widens with age
• The maths and science gap is narrower but girls still do better than boys
• In GCSE in 2019, 3/4 of girls were above grade 4 compared to only 2/3 of boys
• In AS and A level, the gap is narrower than GCSE but girls are still more likely to sit, pass and gain higher grades than boys, even in so-called 'boy subjects' like maths and physics
• In vocational subjects, a large proportion of girls pass with distinction grades even in areas such as engineering and construction where girls are a minority of students