Too many schools deliberately play the league tables to maximise those with five good A* to C grade GCSE equivalents.
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The English Baccalaureate is a league table measure for England's schools which ranks schools by the proportion of pupils who achieve good GCSEs (A* to C) in a core of subjects the government believes to be crucial to a good education - maths, English, two sciences, a foreign language and history or geography.
The English Baccalaureate is a league table measure which ranks English schools by the proportion of pupils who achieve good GCSEs (A* to C) in a core of subjects the government believes to be crucial to a good education - maths, English, two sciences, a foreign language and history or geography.
Four in 10 Liverpool secondary schools have been judged by Ofsted as either inadequate or "requiring improvement", with the proportion of pupils gaining five good GCSEs (A* to C, including English and maths) down from 50% two years ago to 48%.
These have to be good passes (A* to C) in English, maths, a language, two sciences and either geography or history.
As a national average, six out of 10 pupils achieved five good GCSEs (A* to C grades) including maths and English - the minimum level expected by the government.
At the moment, they are measured in league tables on how many pupils at a school achieve five good GCSEs (A* to C) including maths and English.
And a spokesman stressed that this was even the case when these independently run, state-funded schools were measured against the national benchmark of five good (grades A* to C) GCSEs including English and maths.
Four out of ten 16-year-olds in England do not get five good GCSEs (A* to C) including maths and English - the basic measure on which school league tables are based.
