Long-term outcomes: Does it make a difference if your school has a sixth form?
Comparing the higher education, employment and earnings outcomes of those who attend schools with sixth forms with those who don’t.
Long-term outcomes: How did life turn out for those who took Level 3 BTEC qualifications?
Comparing the education, employment and earnings outcomes of those who took BTECs and those who took A-Levels.
Newly opened schools don’t tend to have particularly great exam results
A look at how the results of free schools compare to those of other new schools
Long-term outcomes: How did life turn out for pupils who took GNVQs?
At their height, tens of thousands of pupils entered the qualifications each year.
The impact of early rollout of Universal Credit on free school meals eligibility
An example of how eligibility for free school meals changes in response to changes in benefits policy.
What we’ve learnt about the independent alternative provision sector
Inspection ratings for the independent alternative provision sector are some way worse than those for state alternative provision.
Chances of success at Key Stage 4, part two
The second post in a series exploring the link between Key Stage 1 scores and Key Stage 4 results.
Chances of success at Key Stage 4, part one
This is the first of two posts in a series of blogposts looking at the relationship between Key Stage 1 attainment and Key Stage 4 outcomes. The second post can be found here. There are many ways of defining success at Key Stage 4. One aspect is whether pupils have attained appropriate literacy and numeracy [...]
What is the National Pupil Database?
Many of the blogposts and reports that we produce here at Datalab are based on analysis of the Department for Education’s National Pupil Database (NPD). But what is it? What is the NPD? The NPD is a collection of data relating to education in England compiled by the Department for Education. The NPD is made [...]
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 [...]