WQ93117 (e) Tabled on 06/06/2024

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