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Summary Statistics for Follow-up Leaver Destinations, No. 8: 2026 edition
This statistical publication provides information on the follow-up destinations, nine months after the end of the school year, of 2024-25 school leavers from publicly funded secondary schools in Scotland.
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In Scotland in 2024-25:
- 93.5 per cent of school leavers were in a positive follow-up destination - the joint highest figure (alongside 2021-22) on record.
- The gap between the proportion of leavers from the most (20 per cent) and least (20 per cent) deprived areas in a positive follow-up destination was 7.6 percentage points (pp). This is narrower than both last year (8.3 pp) and 2018-19 (8.4 pp).
- 95.9 per cent of school leavers who were in a positive initial destination were also in a positive follow-up destination. This is an increase compared to both last year (95.5 per cent) and 2018-19 (95.4 per cent).
- 36.3 per cent of those in an ‘other’ initial destination moved into a positive follow-up destination. This is an increase compared to last year (35.5 per cent) but a decrease compared to 2018-19 (39.1 per cent).
- Higher Education was the destination school leavers were most likely to remain in between initial and follow-up closely followed by Employment. 94.1 per cent of those initially in Higher Education and 94.0 per cent of those initially in Employment stayed in the same destination category.
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