SCHOOL performance figures have revealed that all secondary schools in the county are on track, despite 282 schools in the UK found to be under-performing.

Official statistics released today by the department of education revealed that on average Oxfordshire schools are performing above the national average.

It revealed 65.6 per cent of students achieved grade C or above in Maths and English GSCEs by the end of Key Stage 4 in 2016.

This is 2.6 per cent above the national average.

It also showed that the county scored an average Progress 8 score - a way of measuring pupil progress from the end of primary school to the end of secondary school - of 0.01.

The UK average for this measure was at -0.03.

Schools Minister Nick Gibb said that the figures, based on last summer's GCSE results, showed that the hard work of teachers and pupils is leading to higher standards.

He added: "Today's figures confirm that the hard work of teachers and pupils across the country is leading to higher standards, and for that they should be congratulated.

"As well as confirming that the number of young people taking GCSEs in core academic subjects is rising, today's figures show the attainment gap between disadvantaged and all other pupils has now narrowed by 7 per cent since 2011."

But in Oxfordshire the figures showed on average out of 1065 disadvantage pupils in the county only 38.5 per cent of those are achieving grades C and above in English and Maths.

A figure nearly five per cent less than the national average at 43.1 per cent.

A drop which was also echoed in the Progress 8 figures which rated pupils at -0.44 per cent and the national average at -0.38