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Statistics on education
Statistics and Research Branch collects a number of statistics relating to schools, pupils and teachers. These are gathered via the annual School Census Exercise, the Summary of Annual Examination Results, the School Leavers Survey and an annual return on teacher numbers.

Various data are held about pupils, such as gender, religion, ethnicity (including Travellers), Special Educational Needs and entitlement to free school meals. They are summarised at Northern Ireland level, or, in some cases presented at Education and Library Board area, or school level.

Data is available in the following subject areas.

Number of Schools and pupils.

GCSE Exam Results.

A level Exam Results.