KS2 performance tables 2018: The disadvantage gap, attainment by ethnicity and the impact of capping extreme progress scores
Analysis of the latest primary league tables.
How will qualification entry patterns change as a result of changes to Attainment 8?
Expect an increase in entries in creative subjects and fewer entries in geography, history and triple science
Best-fit progress: Is it worth it?
The Department for Education are consulting on a new "best-fit progress" measure for pupils with low prior attainment at the end of Key Stage 2. But does it offer any more beyond the existing Progress 8 measure?
Calculating a Key Stage 4 progress measure using CAT4 in place of Key Stage 2
There will be no official Progress 8 measures this year due to the cancellation of Key Stage 2 tests in 2020. However, we have produced an alternative measure using CAT4 scores as a baseline.
Progress 5: A performance indicator for AP and special schools
Alternative Provision (AP) schools and special schools are poorly served by the current published measures of pupil attainment at the end of Key Stage 4. We suggest some measures that we think better reflect the qualifications entered by pupils at these types of school.
How could Key Stage 2 progress measures be calculated in 2024?
As Key Stage 1 assessments were cancelled in 2020 (and 2021) due to COVID, Key Stage 2 progress measures cannot be calculated next year (or in 2025). We look at options for alternative measures.
Attainment 8 in 2022
This year, Attainment 8 will (once again) be calculated differently to previous years. We look at this impact this might have.
Identifying areas of poor secondary school progress
These maps give a different perspective on the performance of small local authorities
Primary school league tables 2019: Are there some schools where boys are making better progress in reading than girls?
Yes - though there are fewer than 300 schools where this seems to be the case consistently.
Primary MAT league tables 2019: Comparing reading, writing and maths progress scores
What can we learn from the spread of results?