How different areas performed in school league tables

There are wide variations in the performance of different areas of England in their schools' exam results in 2009.

The table below shows the 150 mainland local authorities ranked on the basis of their schools' achievements in the proportion of students achieving the Level 2 threshold - equivalent to at least five GCSEs at grades A*-C - including English and maths GCSEs (the EM column).

Other columns show the A/AS-level average points per student and the proportion of half-day sessions lost due to persistent absence (Abs.).

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LOCAL AUTHORITIES: RESULTS AND PERSISTENT ABSENCE

Area	GCSE	A/AS	Abs.
Kingston upon Thames	68.2%	714.5	3.5%
Sutton	67.9%	865.5	3.9%
Kensington and Chelsea	66.1%	683.2	5.0%
Buckinghamshire	65.4%	790.1	4.6%
Redbridge	64.5%	725.9	3.6%
Hammersmith and Fulham	64.1%	684.7	5.9%
Trafford	63.3%	832.0	4.6%
Wokingham	63.2%	756.4	4.1%
Bromley	62.6%	718.6	5.4%
Barnet	61.4%	745.4	4.0%
Harrow	60.8%	687.1	5.4%
Bath and North East Somerset	59.9%	694.5	4.7%
Warrington	59.8%	757.9	4.5%
Windsor and Maidenhead	59.7%	712.1	4.3%
Hertfordshire	59.3%	730.9	4.9%
Slough	59.3%	710.2	4.6%
York	59.2%	757.5	5.6%
Bury	58.8%	794.5	5.0%
Surrey	58.8%	720.8	5.0%
North Yorkshire	58.5%	782.2	4.9%
Rutland	58.2%	-	4.6%
Havering	58.1%	774.0	4.7%
Gloucestershire	58.0%	766.1	4.6%
Southend on Sea	57.8%	748.5	6.8%
Bexley	57.3%	727.6	5.6%
Cheshire East	57.3%	724.8	5.8%
Brent	57.1%	675.0	4.5%
Shropshire	56.6%	743.1	4.6%
Hounslow	56.6%	700.1	3.6%
Poole	56.5%	718.5	6.7%
Cambridgeshire	56.2%	763.2	5.3%
Lincolnshire	56.1%	772.4	5.2%
Richmond upon Thames	55.7%	699.0	6.1%
Hampshire	55.4%	787.0	5.8%
Wiltshire	55.4%	755.1	5.1%
Stockport	55.2%	736.6	5.7%
West Berkshire	54.9%	787.8	5.0%
Dorset	54.6%	719.4	5.3%
Solihull	54.4%	662.4	5.5%
Ealing	54.0%	724.5	3.8%
Wirral	53.8%	736.8	5.2%
Warwickshire	53.7%	716.8	5.4%
Torbay	53.7%	715.2	6.8%
North Tyneside	53.6%	706.1	5.0%
Lancashire	53.5%	815.2	5.9%
Lambeth	53.5%	590.0	6.4%
Sefton	53.2%	709.4	5.0%
Reading	52.9%	854.2	4.0%
Oxfordshire	52.9%	722.4	5.8%
Westminster	52.8%	638.2	4.5%
Leicestershire	52.6%	717.1	7.5%
East Riding of Yorkshire	52.3%	721.2	6.0%
Gateshead	52.3%	642.7	6.8%
Herefordshire	52.2%	835.3	5.9%
West Sussex	52.2%	697.0	5.4%
Hackney	52.2%	625.4	5.6%
Wandsworth	52.1%	698.8	5.3%
Kent	52.0%	712.8	6.6%
North Somerset	52.0%	701.9	5.5%
Hillingdon	52.0%	687.1	4.4%
Northumberland	51.9%	710.9	6.4%
Croydon	51.9%	688.4	5.9%
Devon	51.8%	712.4	4.7%
Medway	51.7%	698.8	5.1%
Darlington	51.6%	777.7	5.8%
Bournemouth	51.5%	792.4	6.7%
Bracknell Forest	51.3%	700.4	4.7%
Camden	51.1%	693.8	6.5%
Derbyshire	51.0%	759.8	5.3%
Staffordshire	50.8%	707.6	4.5%
East Sussex	50.7%	666.1	6.0%
Cheshire West & Chester	50.6%	765.5	6.4%
Calderdale	50.6%	753.6	6.4%
Enfield	50.4%	670.4	5.2%
Essex	50.2%	759.2	5.8%
Central Bedfordshire	50.0%	741.1	5.2%
Norfolk	50.0%	704.6	6.7%
ENGLAND AVERAGE	50.7%	721.1	5.8%
Cumbria	49.6%	736.4	5.8%
Wakefield	49.3%	748.8	5.2%
Stockton-on-Tees	49.3%	717.6	6.1%
South Gloucestershire	49.2%	677.5	4.1%
Plymouth	49.1%	658.9	5.2%
Somerset	49.0%	732.2	5.2%
Cornwall	48.9%	706.4	4.6%
Northamptonshire	48.9%	660.8	5.9%
Dudley	48.8%	729.7	6.3%
Worcestershire	48.8%	707.7	6.2%
Wigan	48.7%	809.9	4.6%
Suffolk	48.7%	748.0	5.6%
Durham	48.7%	664.1	5.0%
Redcar and Cleveland	48.5%	722.5	6.2%
Hartlepool	48.5%	707.4	5.3%
Bedford	48.1%	697.5	6.4%
Milton Keynes	48.0%	730.0	4.9%
Merton	48.0%	670.0	6.7%
Coventry	47.8%	647.7	7.7%
Rochdale	47.8%	589.6	5.9%
Birmingham	47.7%	724.2	6.0%
Telford and Wrekin	47.7%	706.0	5.3%
South Tyneside	47.7%	647.4	7.0%
Kirklees	47.4%	807.6	6.0%
St Helens	47.4%	729.4	6.8%
Nottinghamshire	47.2%	698.0	6.5%
Rotherham	47.1%	719.3	6.2%
Newham	47.1%	578.9	4.1%
Lewisham	47.0%	647.2	6.0%
Oldham	46.8%	709.9	6.1%
Thurrock	46.6%	643.0	6.4%
Bolton	46.2%	691.0	5.9%
Luton	46.2%	653.6	4.8%
Waltham Forest	46.0%	647.4	5.1%
Southwark	46.0%	572.5	7.3%
Leeds	45.9%	694.0	8.5%
Tower Hamlets	45.8%	631.8	5.4%
Salford	45.8%	625.4	5.0%
North East Lincolnshire	45.7%	690.9	5.7%
Haringey	45.7%	631.8	5.7%
Derby	45.6%	694.6	5.7%
Swindon	45.6%	675.0	4.0%
Tameside	45.5%	722.3	6.4%
North Lincolnshire	45.4%	737.4	4.9%
Sunderland	45.1%	771.1	6.9%
Barking and Dagenham	45.1%	647.2	6.2%
Islington	45.0%	632.7	6.7%
Halton	44.6%	680.8	6.1%
Brighton and Hove	44.5%	727.3	5.7%
Sheffield	44.5%	682.5	7.4%
Leicester	44.4%	685.6	5.5%
Liverpool	44.3%	679.3	8.1%
Walsall	44.0%	638.6	5.5%
Blackburn with Darwen	43.9%	690.6	6.0%
Wolverhampton	43.4%	633.3	6.6%
Greenwich	43.4%	569.7	6.3%
Southampton	43.1%	659.3	9.7%
Doncaster	42.9%	697.4	7.3%
Newcastle upon Tyne	41.9%	735.8	11.0%
Bradford	41.6%	677.6	7.1%
Isle of Wight	41.6%	646.8	8.3%
Nottingham	41.4%	781.3	8.7%
Peterborough	40.6%	656.9	5.5%
Bristol	40.2%	704.2	7.8%
Portsmouth	39.5%	697.8	9.3%
Stoke-on-Trent	39.4%	652.4	7.0%
Barnsley	39.3%	657.6	6.7%
Blackpool	38.7%	781.1	9.0%
Manchester	38.6%	687.4	11.1%
Sandwell	37.5%	617.8	8.7%
Kingston upon Hull	36.9%	743.2	10.1%
Middlesbrough	36.9%	666.1	8.8%
Knowsley	33.5%	541.1	9.3%