Gordon Schools Huntly Academy Network Area

SIMD Detailed Analysis

2013

Contents Gordon Schools Huntly Academy Network Area ...... 2 Population ...... 4 Poverty ...... 5 Income Deprivation ...... 5 Employment Deprivation ...... 6 Childhood Poverty...... 6 Education ...... 7 Attitudes to Health ...... 10 Life Expectancy ...... 12 Levels of Crime ...... 12

Gordon Schools Huntly Academy Network Area

The Gordon Schools Huntly Academy Network Area covers the area highlighted on the map on the next page. It includes 12 schools:

 Cairney School  Clatt  Drumblade School  Forgue School  Gartly School  Glass School  Gordon Primary  Insch School  Kennethmont School  Largue School  Premnay School  Rhynie School

Huntly CSN

Population

Over the past ten years the population in the Gordon School Network Area has increased, by 1105 people from 2001 to 2011, this is a 10% Increase.

There is an increasing and ageing population within the area; from 2001 – 2011 there was an increase from 2400 to 2749 in the pensionable population. This group now account for 22.8% of the population; this has increased from 21.1% of the total population in 2001. The level of those of pensionable age in the most deprived and least deprived areas has been increasing. An increasing aging population provides unique challenges in delivering services, additional housing and the resulting demand in community facilities.

The population of children has been decreasing year on year over the past 10 years, in 2001 children accounted for 20.4% of the population; this has dropped to 17.7% in 2011. The population of children in the most and least deprived areas is dropping at a similar rate.

Poverty Income Deprivation

The rate of income deprivation in the Gordon School Network Area is 7.8%, which is higher than Aberdeenshire average of 7%, and lower than the Scottish average of 13%. The rate of income deprivation in the 15% most deprived datazones in the Gordon School Network Area is higher than the level of that in the other 85% of the population in 2011, and has been for the previous 10 years.

The percentage of people income deprived in the 15% most deprived areas is higher than the national average of 13.4% at 15.3% in 2011.

Employment Deprivation The percentage of those in employment deprivation in the Gordons School Network area is 7.3%, this is higher than the Aberdeenshire average of 6%.

Between 2002 and 2011 the rate of employment deprivation in the most deprived datazones in the Gordons School Network area has generally been around 50% higher than that in the rest of the area.

Childhood Poverty The level of childhood poverty in the Gordons School Network area is 9.4%, which the higher than the Aberdeenshire average of 8.5%, but lower than the national average of 18.6%.

The rate of Children in poverty in the 15% most deprived areas in the Gordons School Network Area higher than that of those in the remaining 85% of the population.

Education The average attendance rate in the Gordons School network area in Primary Schools is 94.9%, this is lower than the Aberdeenshire (96.2%) and Scottish (95.2%) average. Attendance rates at secondary schools with the Gordons School Network area falling just below the Aberdeenshire average of 92.8%, with a 92.4% attendance rate, this is higher than the Scottish average of 91.1%. Both Primary and Secondary school pupils have a consistently higher attendance rate in the 85% least deprived areas, with the differences being greater at secondary school between the 15% most deprived pupils and the 85% least deprived pupils.

The percentage of S4 pupils who gained English and maths at SQF Level 3 or above is 94.7%, which is higher than the Aberdeenshire and Scottish average, 94.5% and 93% respectively. The percentage of S4 pupils with 5 awards at SCQF level 3 and above, is 90.9% within the Gordons School Network compared to 93.6% in Aberdeenshire and 92.3% in Scotland.

The percentage of S6 pupils with 3 awards at SCQF level 6 and above is 70.3%, which is higher than the Aberdeenshire average of 69.3% and the Scottish average of 64.6%.

In upper secondary education, pupils in the most deprived areas in the Gordons School Network Area do not perform as well as those in the rest of the area. The percentage of S4 pupils with 5 awards at SCQF level 3 and above; and those with English and Maths at SCQF level 3 and above, is generally higher in the 85% least deprived areas. The percentage of S6 pupils with 3 awards at SCQF level 6 and above has fluctuated over the period between the most and least deprived areas having better results.

In the Gordons School Network area 83.2% of school leavers go onto a positive destination, this is lower than the Aberdeenshire average of 91.3% and the Scottish average of 88.8%.

Of the school leavers who did go on to positive destinations, the 15% most deprived areas of the Gordons School Network Area saw a higher proportion of pupils going into employment (35.5% in 2010/11 compared with 23.5% in the remaining area).

In the less deprived areas a much higher proportion went into higher education (43.6% in 2010/11 in the 85% least deprived areas compared to 31.6% in the most deprived). School leavers from the least deprived areas were more likely to go into training and training, while those in the 15% most deprived are more likely to go into further education.

Attitudes to Health

The percentage of women smoking at maternity booking appointment in the Gordons School network area is 12.6% this is below the Aberdeenshire and national average, 14.7% and 17.1% respectively.

The proportion of women smoking at their maternity booking appointment is notably higher in the 15% most deprived areas compared with the rest of the area. The level has been falling gradually over the three year period from 33.0% in 2007/09 to 21.9% in 2009/11 in the most deprived areas, this is a 27% decrease over the period. However the difference between the most and least deprived remains almost three times higher in the 15% most deprived areas.

In the Gordons School network area the rate of Low weight live singleton birth percentage of live singleton births is 2.1%, this is above the Aberdeenshire average of 1.27% and the national average of 2.04%. As can be seen in the graph, there there are higher levels of low wright births in the least deprived areas.

The level of breastfeeding at the 6-8 week review of babies is 51.6% In the Gordons School Network area this is higher than the Aberdeenshire average of 45.3% and the national average of 36.7%. The proportion of children, in the 15% most deprived areas, who are breastfed at 6-8 weeks was between 28% and 42% in between 2010 and 2012, this compares with a range of 54% to 60% for the rest of the area. As can be seen in the graph, the higher percentage has been consistent over the reporting period, however the gap is decreasing.

Life Expectancy The life expectancy of Aberdeenshire between 2006 and 2010 was higher than that of the Scottish average for both males and females. Males were expected to live until 77.9 in Aberdeenshire, and 75.3 in Scotland, whereas females in Aberdeenshire were expected to live until 81.5 in Aberdeenshire and 80.1 in Scotland.

The average life expectancy for men in the 15% most deprived areas in Aberdeenshire between 2006 and 2010 was 72.5, below the Aberdeenshire and national average. Males in the least deprived areas were expected to live above the Aberdeenshire average, living until 78.9 years.

A similar pattern is observed in females, to a lesser extent. Female life expectancy in the 15% most deprived areas was 78.9, 3 years less than the least deprived areas and the Aberdeenshire average.

Levels of Crime The SIMD crime domain rate is based on five indicators of broad crime types: crimes of violence; domestic house breaking; vandalism; drug offence and minor assault and is referred to as ‘SIMD crime’ rather that total crime, as it does not include all recorded crimes.

The average rate of SIMD crimes in the Gordon Schools Huntly Academy Network area has risen since 2004. In 2011, there was an average of 268 SIMD crimes per 10,000 population. This is higher than the average of 208 in Aberdeenshire, and lower than the Scottish average of 453.

The average number of crimes in the most deprived areas is consistently higher than in the rest of the area.