14 December 2010 Last updated at 09:52 ET

Primary league tables: Regional picture

This table shows how primary school attainment varies between England's local authorities.

The authorities are ranked firstly on the percentage of pupils attaining the government benchmark of Level 4 in both their maths and English Sats.

The average point score in the national curriculum tests, out of a maximum of 33, is then used as a tie-break.

About a quarter of schools boycotted the Sats tests this year, and where there is not enough data to give an accurate figure, government statisticians have not published averages.

Local authority	% L4 Eng & maths What does this mean?	Avg point score What does this mean?	Absence What does this mean?
Richmond upon Thames	85%	29.3	4.6%
Trafford	81%	28.7	4.6%
Stockport	81%	28.6	4.9%
Solihull	81%	28.6	5%
Wokingham	80%	28.4	4.6%
Cheshire East	80%	28.3	4.7%
Bath and North East Somerset	80%	28.3	4.8%
Sutton	80%	28.3	5.4%
Warrington	80%	28.2	4.7%
Stockton-on-Tees	80%	28.1	5%
Kingston upon Thames	79%	28.6	4.9%
Barnet	79%	28.3	5.6%
Gateshead	79%	28.2	5.3%
Darlington	79%	28.2	5.6%
Wigan	79%	28	4.8%
Buckinghamshire	78%	28.3	4.8%
Hertfordshire	78%	28.3	5.1%
Redbridge	78%	28.2	5.9%
Wandsworth	78%	28.1	5.4%
St. Helens	78%	28	4.8%
York	78%	28	4.8%
Gloucestershire	78%	28	4.8%
Cumbria	78%	27.9	5%
Surrey	77%	28.1	5.1%
Bromley	77%	28.1	5.5%
Harrow	77%	28.1	5.9%
Windsor and Maidenhead	77%	28	4.9%
Merton	77%	28	5.5%
Warwickshire	77%	27.9	4.9%
Cheshire West and Chester	77%	27.9	5%
Hillingdon	77%	27.9	5.3%
Salford	77%	27.8	5.6%
Brent	77%	27.8	6%
Halton	77%	27.7	5.1%
Westminster	77%	27.7	5.5%
Bexley	76%	28	5.4%
North Yorkshire	76%	27.9	4.8%
Derbyshire	76%	27.9	5%
Hampshire	76%	27.9	5%
Bolton	76%	27.8	5.2%
Devon	76%	27.8	5.2%
Nottinghamshire	76%	27.8	5.2%
Lancashire	76%	27.7	5%
Bury	76%	27.7	5.2%
Durham	76%	27.7	5.3%
Hammersmith and Fulham	76%	27.7	5.8%
South Tyneside	76%	27.6	5.2%
Lambeth	76%	27.5	5.3%
Tower Hamlets	76%	27.5	5.4%
Isles of Scilly	76%	27.3	5.8%
Leicestershire	75%	27.8	4.8%
Oxfordshire	75%	27.8	5.1%
Wirral	75%	27.8	5.4%
Hounslow	75%	27.8	5.6%
Wiltshire	75%	27.7	4.8%
Havering	75%	27.7	5.1%
Haringey	75%	27.7	5.7%
Somerset	75%	27.6	5.1%
Rochdale	75%	27.6	5.4%
Waltham Forest	75%	27.6	5.8%
Kirklees	75%	27.6	5.9%
Calderdale	75%	27.5	5.1%
Lewisham	75%	27.5	5.3%
Greenwich	75%	27.4	5.1%
Knowsley	75%	27.4	5.8%
Oldham	75%	27.3	5.6%
Newham	75%	27.3	5.7%
West Berkshire	74%	27.9	4.5%
Milton Keynes	74%	27.7	5.1%
Dorset	74%	27.7	5.5%
Newcastle upon Tyne	74%	27.7	6%
Shropshire	74%	27.6	4.8%
Staffordshire	74%	27.6	5.1%
Tameside	74%	27.6	5.2%
Ealing	74%	27.6	5.3%
Lincolnshire	74%	27.6	5.3%
Croydon	74%	27.6	6%
Leeds	74%	27.5	5.7%
Camden	74%	27.5	5.8%
Walsall	74%	27.5	5.9%
Poole	73%	27.7	5.4%
Central Bedfordshire	73%	27.6	5.6%
Bracknell Forest	73%	27.5	4.7%
Essex	73%	27.5	5%
North Somerset	73%	27.5	5.1%
Cambridgeshire	73%	27.5	5.4%
South Gloucestershire	73%	27.4	4.8%
Swindon	73%	27.4	5.1%
East Riding of Yorkshire	73%	27.3	4.8%
Southwark	73%	27.3	5.7%
Coventry	73%	27.2	5.7%
Bradford	73%	27.1	6%
Reading	72%	27.5	5.2%
Bristol, City of	72%	27.5	6.5%
West Sussex	72%	27.4	4.9%
Northamptonshire	72%	27.4	5.1%
Doncaster	72%	27.3	5.8%
East Sussex	72%	27.2	5.5%
Middlesbrough	72%	27.2	5.7%
Herefordshire	72%	27.2	5.8%
Islington	72%	27.2	5.9%
Wolverhampton	72%	27	6.2%
Bournemouth	71%	27.5	5.3%
Telford and Wrekin	71%	27.3	5.1%
Worcestershire	71%	27.3	5.2%
Blackburn with Darwen	71%	27.3	5.5%
Northumberland	71%	27.3	5.8%
Slough	71%	27.3	6.3%
Plymouth	71%	27.2	5.6%
Cornwall	71%	27.1	5.5%
Sunderland	71%	27.1	5.6%
Wakefield	71%	27.1	6%
Liverpool	71%	27.1	6.2%
Hackney	71%	27	5.4%
Southampton	71%	27	5.8%
Kent	70%	27.3	5.5%
Sheffield	70%	27.1	5.9%
Barking and Dagenham	70%	27	5.4%
Bedford	70%	26.9	5.8%
Barnsley	70%	26.9	5.9%
North East Lincolnshire	69%	27	4.8%
Blackpool	69%	26.9	6%
Isle of Wight	69%	26.9	6.1%
Luton	69%	26.8	5.6%
Kingston upon Hull, City of	69%	26.7	5.6%
Manchester	69%	26.7	5.9%
Sandwell	69%	26.7	6.4%
Portsmouth	68%	27.1	5.8%
North Lincolnshire	68%	27	4.6%
Suffolk	68%	26.9	5.3%
Leicester	68%	26.8	5.9%
Birmingham	68%	26.8	6.1%
Thurrock	68%	26.7	5.5%
Medway	67%	26.8	4.8%
Norfolk	67%	26.8	5.1%
Peterborough	67%	26.8	5.4%
Nottingham	67%	26.6	6.8%
Rotherham	66%	26.7	5.5%
Derby	66%	26.4	5.5%
Rutland	~	~	4.4%
City of London	~	~	4.5%
North Tyneside	~	~	5%
Hartlepool	~	~	5.1%
Redcar and Cleveland	~	~	5.1%
Stoke-on-Trent	~	~	5.2%
Sefton	~	~	5.4%
Enfield	~	~	5.5%
Brighton and Hove	~	~	5.5%
Southend-on-Sea	~	~	5.5%
Kensington and Chelsea	~	~	5.9%
Dudley	~	~	5.9%
Torbay	~	~	6.1%

What do the table headers mean?

% L4 maths and English

The proportion of pupils in a school that achieved Level 4 - the government benchmark for their age - in both maths and English, in the national curriculum tests known as Sats. Boycott = school that boycotted 2010 Sats; SS = small school; N/A = data not available. More detail

Average point score

Average points per pupil in maths and English Sats tests. Boycott = school that boycotted 2010 Sats; SS = small school; N/A = data not available. More detail

Absence

The proportion of half days missed through both authorised and unauthorised absence.

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