Have you tried our Schools Like Yours tool yet – available for all schools to use for free?

We built it earlier this year to help schools find others operating in similar contexts to their own, and to compare themselves on a range of measures.

We’ve now added the Key Stage 2 school results which came out on Friday – together with a number of other things for primary schools and special schools. We’ll be adding the latest Key Stage 4 data in January when that is published by the Department for Education.

Here’s are some of the things we’ve newly added:

Primary schools

• We’ve updated the pupil characteristics data available;
• We’ve added whole-school disadvantaged pupil figures;
• We’ve also newly added figures breaking down the school population by ethnicity;
• KS2 data for 2019 is now available;
• We’ve added two new KS2 measures: the percentage of disadvantaged pupils at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, and the percentage of disadvantaged pupils achieving a high score in reading and maths and working at greater depth in writing
• We’ve updated the Ofsted data available in Schools Like Yours;

Special schools

• We’ve updated the pupil characteristics data available;
• We’ve added whole-school disadvantaged pupil figures;
• We’ve also newly added figures breaking down the school population by ethnicity;
• KS2 data for 2019 is now available;
• We’ve added provisional 2019 KS4 data, where available;
• We’ve updated the Ofsted data available in Schools Like Yours;

Try Schools Like Yours now, and let us know what you make of it.

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