It’s a victory for the fairer sex.
Girls far outperform boys at their GCSEs in schools across Kirklees - and the gap is getting wider.
Exclusive Examiner analysis of last year’s GCSE exam results from official Government statistics show that there is a 12.5% point gap between the number of girls and boys in Kirklees who achieve at least five grades between A* to C, including in English and maths.
Some 61.9% of girls in Kirklees achieved this benchmark result, while only 49.4% of boys managed to do the same.
Only the East Riding of Yorkshire and parts of Teesside have a wider gap between how girls and boys do in the exams in Yorkshire.
The gap between girls and boys shrank overall in last summer’s results - but not in Kirklees.
Girls did better than boys by 10.1 percentage points nationally in 2014/15, down from 10.7 the year before.
But in Kirklees the gap jumped from 8.7 to 12.5 percentage points.
In Calderdale it shrank from 8.9 to 7.4 points.
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Girls have done better than boys in GCSEs in England for some years now.
This is reflected in the data - girls outperformed boys almost everywhere around the country.
Percentage of boys and girls getting five A*-C, including English and Maths, 2014/15:
Local Authority | Boys | Girls | Percentage point gap |
Kirklees | 49.4 | 61.9 | 12.5 |
Calderdale | 56.9 | 64.3 | 7.4 |