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Statistics: destinations of key stage 4 and 5 students

Data on key stage 4 (KS4) and 16 to 18 (KS5) students going into apprenticeship, education and employment destinations.

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From:
Department for Education
Published:
22 August 2013
Last updated:
16 October 2025
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  1. Added 'Destinations of key stage 4 and 5 students: 2024'.

  2. Added 'Destinations of key stage 4 and 5 students: 2022'.

  3. Added 'Destinations of key stage 4 and 16 to 18 (KS5) students: 2021'.

  4. Added 'Destinations of key stage 4 and 5 students: 2020'.

  5. Added official statistics on 'Destinations of key stage 4 and 16 to 18 (KS5) students: 2019'.

  6. Added 'Destinations of KS4 and 16 to 18 (KS5) students: 2018'.

  7. Added 'Destinations of KS4 and KS5 pupils: 2017'. Replaced 'training' with 'apprenticeships' in text.

  8. Added 'Destinations of KS4 and KS5 pupils: 2016' to the collection.

  9. Added 'Destinations of key stage 4 and key stage 5 pupils: 2015 (revised)'.

  10. Added 'Destinations of KS4 and KS5 pupils: 2015 (provisional)'

  11. Added 'Improvements to destinations of key stage 5 students: time series'.

  12. Added 'Improvements to destinations of key stage 5 students: 2014'.

  13. Added 'Destinations of KS4 and KS5 pupils, 2013 to 2014' to the collection.

  14. Added 'Provisional destinations of key stage 4 and 5 pupils in 2013/14' document to the collection.

  15. Added 'Destinations of key stage 4 and key stage 5 pupils: 2011 to 2012' to the collection.

  16. First published.

Statistics showing the number of young people going into education, employment or apprenticeships the year after reaching the end of:

  • key stage 4 (after year 11, usually aged 16)
  • 16 to 18 study (usually aged 18)

You can find our archived statistics from before May 2010 on the UK Government Web Archive.

Destinations after key stage 4 and 16 to 18 (KS5) study

Statistics including information from a data source which gives more complete coverage of participation in employment than the earlier ‘experimental’ destinations data.

Destinations: experimental statistical releases

Statistics from 2010 to 2014, when the methodology was under development, providing more limited coverage of participation in employment than the ‘destinations’ data from 2015 onwards.

Improvements to destinations measures

Statistical working papers on the use of new data to improve the coverage and accuracy of destinations measures using the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset.

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