What percentage of children taking GCSE Welsh left secondary education fluently speaking Welsh, at the end of the 2022-23 school year?
Answered by Cabinet Secretary for Education
| Answered on 13/06/2024
The data in the table below shows the percentage of pupils in year 11 entering a GCSE in Welsh language or literature or Welsh second language in summer 2023 who self-reported as fluent in Welsh in the January 2023 school census.
GCSE subject 2023 |
Percentage of pupils self- reporting as fluent in Welsh. |
Welsh first language and / or literature |
90.4 |
Welsh second language |
2.3 |
Welsh first language or literature or Welsh second language |
22.0 |