Initial destinations of senior phase school leavers
This presents data on initial destinations of school leavers from local authority and grant-aided schools in Scotland.
4. Local Authority Breakdowns
The next section presents a breakdown of results at a local authority level.
4.1. Five year trend for positive destinations by local authority
Table 4: Five year trend for percentage of senior phase pupils with any positive initial destination by local authority
| Local Authority | 2011/12 percent | 2012/13 percent | 2013/14 percent | 2014/15 percent | 2015/16 percent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen City | 88.6 | 91.1 | 91.2 | 90.2 | 90.3 |
| Aberdeenshire | 94.1 | 94.4 | 94.0 | 95.9 | 94.7 |
| Angus | 94.2 | 93.9 | 92.7 | 94.2 | 95.1 |
| Argyll & Bute | 90.4 | 93.1 | 91.5 | 93.2 | 92.9 |
| Clackmannanshire | 87.9 | 88.6 | 93.3 | 92.5 | 90.2 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 87.9 | 91.8 | 90.9 | 93.1 | 94.6 |
| Dundee City | 89.6 | 91.1 | 90.9 | 93.0 | 91.5 |
| East Ayrshire | 89.4 | 91.6 | 93.3 | 94.2 | 91.8 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 95.0 | 96.0 | 97.0 | 96.8 | 97.5 |
| East Lothian | 88.4 | 90.0 | 92.4 | 91.8 | 93.5 |
| East Renfrewshire | 95.2 | 95.7 | 96.1 | 96.1 | 96.6 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 88.8 | 91.7 | 91.3 | 92.5 | 93.7 |
| Falkirk | 90.4 | 91.6 | 92.7 | 90.1 | 95.0 |
| Fife | 89.6 | 89.8 | 92.5 | 92.4 | 92.7 |
| Glasgow City | 87.9 | 89.4 | 89.8 | 90.3 | 89.9 |
| Highland | 91.2 | 93.4 | 93.7 | 93.8 | 95.0 |
| Inverclyde | 94.5 | 95.2 | 94.0 | 94.6 | 94.3 |
| Midlothian | 85.8 | 89.2 | 94.2 | 93.4 | 95.1 |
| Moray | 91.8 | 94.1 | 93.9 | 94.4 | 92.7 |
| Na h-Eileanan Siar | 95.4 | 96.8 | 96.6 | 95.9 | 97.6 |
| North Ayrshire | 90.3 | 94.6 | 94.3 | 95.9 | 94.8 |
| North Lanarkshire | 87.6 | 90.4 | 91.5 | 93.1 | 92.3 |
| Orkney Islands | 94.1 | 94.2 | 93.8 | 94.6 | 91.1 |
| Perth & Kinross | 93.2 | 92.4 | 93.8 | 92.1 | 95.0 |
| Renfrewshire | 88.1 | 90.3 | 92.7 | 90.9 | 92.2 |
| Scottish Borders | 91.3 | 92.3 | 94.4 | 95.2 | 94.2 |
| Shetland Islands | 90.3 | 95.4 | 93.2 | 95.6 | 93.4 |
| South Ayrshire | 88.8 | 92.8 | 92.4 | 94.5 | 94.3 |
| South Lanarkshire | 89.8 | 89.1 | 92.3 | 93.1 | 94.1 |
| Stirling | 88.6 | 90.0 | 92.1 | 90.7 | 93.3 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 92.8 | 91.1 | 89.6 | 89.9 | 92.2 |
| West Lothian | 89.8 | 92.6 | 92.8 | 93.4 | 92.7 |
| Grant-Aided | 95.0 | * | * | * | 95.3 |
| National | 90.1 | 91.7 | 92.5 | 93.0 | 93.3 |
* Value could provide information on a cohort of less than five or has been suppressed to prevent calculation of data for a small cohort.
4.2. Senior phase leaver destinations by local authority (2015/16)
Table 5: Initial destinations of senior phase school leavers by local authority (2015/16)
| Percentage of leavers in destination | Total number of leavers | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Further education | Higher education | Employed | Training | Voluntary work | Activity agreement | Unemployed seeking | Unemployed not seeking | Not known | ||
| Aberdeen City | 28 | 45 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1,673 |
| Aberdeenshire | 28 | 42 | 22 | 1 | * | * | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2,581 |
| Angus | 35 | 38 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1,225 |
| Argyll & Bute | 19 | 41 | 31 | 1 | * | * | 5 | 2 | 0 | 903 |
| Clackmannanshire | 29 | 25 | 30 | 3 | * | * | 8 | 1 | 0 | 489 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 29 | 39 | 23 | 1 | * | * | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1,474 |
| Dundee City | 37 | 32 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 2 | * | 1,388 |
| East Ayrshire | 38 | 36 | 15 | 2 | * | * | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1,278 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 16 | 61 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 1 | * | * | * | 1,368 |
| East Lothian | 22 | 39 | 28 | 2 | * | * | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1,018 |
| East Renfrewshire | 16 | 66 | 12 | * | 2 | * | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1,394 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 27 | 39 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | * | 3,270 |
| Falkirk | 22 | 37 | 28 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | * | 1,527 |
| Fife | 33 | 39 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3,712 |
| Glasgow City | 28 | 35 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 4,551 |
| Highland | 21 | 37 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2,516 |
| Inverclyde | 28 | 38 | 24 | 3 | * | * | 4 | 1 | 0 | 749 |
| Midlothian | 29 | 32 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | * | 992 |
| Moray | 27 | 39 | 25 | 1 | * | * | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1,008 |
| Na h-Eileanan Siar | * | 44 | 32 | 2 | * | * | * | * | 0 | 248 |
| North Ayrshire | 34 | 38 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | * | 1,317 |
| North Lanarkshire | 26 | 40 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | * | 3,966 |
| Orkney Islands | 21 | 37 | 31 | * | 0 | * | 4 | 3 | * | 213 |
| Perth & Kinross | 26 | 39 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1,389 |
| Renfrewshire | 25 | 42 | 23 | 2 | * | * | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1,777 |
| Scottish Borders | 31 | 38 | 23 | 1 | * | * | 3 | 2 | * | 1,166 |
| Shetland Islands | 27 | 30 | 33 | * | 0 | * | 4 | 2 | 0 | 273 |
| South Ayrshire | 26 | 46 | 18 | 2 | * | * | 4 | 1 | * | 1,204 |
| South Lanarkshire | 22 | 43 | 22 | 4 | * | * | 5 | 1 | * | 3,481 |
| Stirling | 18 | 44 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | * | 1,060 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 27 | 40 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 949 |
| West Lothian | 24 | 40 | 25 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | * | 1,983 |
| Grant-Aided | * | 78 | 11 | * | * | 0 | * | * | 0 | 107 |
| National | 27 | 40 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 52,249 |
* Value could provide information on a cohort of less than five or has been suppressed to prevent calculation of data for a small cohort. Values are rounded to the nearest whole value and therefore may not sum to 100.