Qualification entry patterns at the end of the EBacc era
The number of non-EBacc qualifications entered by pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 has been steadily falling since 2015
Key Stage 4 attainment indicators for special and alternative provision schools
Announcing a new report in FFT Aspire for special and alternative provision schools
Some things you might not know about our schools – a birthday special
As we celebrate our tenth birthday, we look back at some of the issues we were talking about when Datalab launched, and reflect on some of the other big issues in education today.
The schools that send no pupils on to A-Levels in the EBacc subjects (and a few others)
We look at the proportion of schools who send no pupils on to study various subjects at A-Level, broken down by gender.
Intersectionality and Key Stage 5 subject choice
We look at how likely pupils are to progress to study A-Levels, broken down by gender, ethnicity and level of disadvantage.
How valuable are end-of-year tests for predicting pupils’ future achievement?
We look into whether end-of-year tests are a good predictor of pupils' attainment by the end of the following year.
How attainment gaps in literacy change over time
We examine how attainment gaps between different groups of pupils defined by disadvantage, gender and term of birth change from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 4.
A closer look at pupils who did not achieve the basics at GCSE
We use data from 1,500 secondary schools to look at the characteristics and grades of pupils who did not achieve a grade 4 or above in English and/or maths GCSE.
Some more things we’ve learned about the 2024 GCSE results
We present some very early Key Stage 4 headline statistics, including Attainment 8, collected from 1,800 secondary schools - UPDATED 13/9/24