Is attending a grammar school bad for your mental health?
We explore new evidence that suggests attending a grammar school isn’t independently related to increased risk of mental ill-health.
So. Farewell then Progress 8
A round-up of provisional Key Stage 4 Performance Tables data for 2024. Will Progress 8 be missed next year?
How did Ofsted grades for overall effectiveness relate to the four sub-judgments?
With grades for overall effectiveness no longer being published following inspection, we look into whether grades for sub-judgments differed from the overall grade.
The disadvantage gap at Key Stage 2 in 2024
We use data from schools who participated in this year's KS2 Early Results Service to explore how attainment varied by disadvantage this year
What became of the “failing” schools of the early 2000s?
We take a trip back in time to catch up with secondary schools that were persistently low attaining at the turn of the century, under the previous Labour government
Caution when interpreting value added scores in languages at Key Stage 4
We recommend some changes to the languages value added measure published in secondary school performance tables to reflect the languages entered by pupils
What topics emerge from 60,000 school inspection reports?
We use computational research methods to shed some light on the content of school inspection reports.
Contextualising Progress 8
As part of our work on a school quality index, we set our approach to measuring academic outcomes using a contextualised Progress 8 measure
What do Ofsted and speed dating have in common?
Are inspectors' judgments influenced by the previous judgments they made?