Who’s Left 2018, part four: Our methodology
The fourth part of our series looking at the pupils who leave mainstream school rolls.
Who’s Left 2018, part two: What impact would reweighting school league tables have for multi-academy trusts?
The second part of our series looking at the pupils who leave mainstream school rolls.
Who’s Left 2018, part one: The main findings
The first part of our series looking at the pupils who leave mainstream school rolls.
KS4 performance tables 2017: Everything we know about coasting schools and floor standard schools
The first table in this post was updated at 17.42 on 25 January 2018 after we noticed – of all things – that percentages in the table did not add up to 100. We very much regret the error. Key Stage 4 league tables – performance tables, to use their proper name – have been published this [...]
KS2 performance tables 2017: Ofsted ratings and floor standards
We’ve already looked at the number of schools judged to be below the floor standard, and to be coasting, based on the Key Stage 2 performance tables data published this morning. But, looking a little deeper, how stable are these classifications – how many schools that ended up in one of these groups last year [...]
KS2 performance tables 2017: The reason schools ended up below the floor standard this year
Key Stage 2 league tables – performance tables, to use their proper name – have been published this morning, identifying those schools below the government’s floor standard, and those judged to be coasting. So what can we say about the schools in these two groups? And are junior schools still more likely to fall into [...]
Provisional KS4 data 2017: How are free schools faring?
The first free schools opened in September 2011, and as most secondary free schools opened with only a single year group of pupils we’re only now starting to get results for many of these schools. A total of 49 mainstream free schools have results in this morning’s release of provisional 2017 Key Stage 4 results. [...]
Who’s left: Three questions for the Department for Education from our work
This is one of several blogposts in Datalab's 'Who's left' series of posts. The full series can be found here. This post was updated at 19:05 on 31 January 2017, to correct an explanation of the duty which local authorities have regarding pupils in their areas. 1. Are they satisfied that enough is being done [...]
Who’s left: How do pupils count in league tables, and how does our reweighting approach work?
This is one of several blogposts in Datalab's 'Who's left' series of posts. The full series can be found here. Three school censuses are carried out each year – in October, January and May – recording which pupils are on-roll at which schools. When it comes to inclusion in a mainstream secondary school’s league table [...]