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We are a not-for-profit organisation.  \nCambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to making our documents accessible in accordance with the WCAG 2 . 1 Standard. We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of our documents. If you find any problems or you think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact our team: Research Division  \nIf you need this document in a different format contact us telling us your name, email address and requirements and we will respond within 15 working days.  \nHow to cite this publication  \nGill, T. (2025) . Provision of GCSE subjects 2024 . Statistics Report Series No. 146. Cambridge University Press & Assessment.  \nIntroduction  \nThis report looks at the provision of GCSE subjects in England in 2024 . Provision in a subject is defined as the number or percentage of schools with at least one student taking the subject. It could be argued that this may not cover all the ‘provision’, since schools might offer to provide a subject but none of their students wants to study it. However, as we have no means of capturing this information, we will only look at the provision based on the definition above.  \nThe tables presented in this report cannot explain why schools do not offer a particular subject. For example, it may be that there is not enough demand for it from students to make it worthwhile, or it may be that there is a lack of teachers with the required experience.  \nData  \nThis report was produced using publicly available data from the Department for Education’s (DfE)“Find and compare schools in England” service 1 . The dataset consisted of Key Stage 4 (KS4) results in all subjects provided by each school in England. Other school information, such as schools’ sex composition, admissions policy, and the number of disadvantaged pupils at the end of KS4, was also available.  \nThe report presents only the provision of GCSE subjects in schools with students taking GCSEs in 2024 . Only GCSEs (9-1) full course (both single and double award) were counted for this report. Schools with at least 10 students taking GCSEs were included in the analysis.  \nIn this report, the level of provision is presented by the following school classifications: school type, school attainment, school deprivation level, school sex composition, and school size. However, it should be noted that the analysis is at the simplest level and takes no account of interactions between these classifications. For instance, Table 13 of this report shows that provision in single-sex schools was generally lower than in mixed-sex schools for many subjects. This can partly be attributed to the fact that single-sex schools tend to be smaller than mixed-sex schools (see Table 9) .  \nResults  \nTables 1 to 5 present the distribution of schools within each of the different school classifications. The total number of schools is not identical in each table, due to small amounts of missing or suppressed data within each classification. In certain circumstances, DfE suppressed some school data values to protect confidentiality and minimise identification risks. This usually happens when the measure covers only five or fewer students2 .  \nSchool type  \nGCSE qualifications are taught at several different types of school. Schools were assigned a school type based on their admissions policy and institution type as recorded in the dataset. 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