School leavers - Edinburgh City Region

Edinburgh outperforms Scotland in terms of school leaver qualifications.

Thirty five percent of Edinburgh's fourth year pupils leave school with five or more Standard Grade Credit awards, while another quarter gain three or more Highers by the end of fifth year.

A high proportion of these school leavers enter higher education (30%), employment (26%), further education (21%) and training (22%). (Source: City of Edinburgh Council, School Leaver Destination Report 2007-08)

Almost a quarter of Edinburgh's 25,568 secondary school pupils attend independent schools.

There are around 50,000 school leavers a year in Scotland.

In 2007/08, just under 87 per cent of these in were in 'positive' destinations three months after the end of the school year. Positive destinations are defined as higher education, further education, employment, training or voluntary work.

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