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.
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.
How many children are ever in need up to age 18?
DfE statistics show that on 31st March 2023, 3.4% of all children aged 0-17 were defined as in need. But we estimate that around a quarter of children will be classified as in need at some point before their 18th birthday.
Splitting the disadvantage gap within and between schools, part two
Schools' Progress 8 scores for disadvantaged pupils tend to be correlated with the percentage of disadvantaged pupils in a school's cohort. But this is the case in some regions more than others.
Splitting the disadvantage gap within and between schools, part one
Around 8% of the gap in Progress 8 scores between disadvantaged pupils and non-disadvantaged pupils in 2024 appears to be attributable to the way in which pupils from both groups are shared out between schools
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.
The socio-economic gap in teenage motherhood
We use data from ECHILD to look at how likely high-achieving young women are to become teenage mothers.
Exclusions and suspensions in 2023/24
Based on our analysis of attendance registers, rates of exclusions and suspensions in 2023/24 were higher than last year