Exclusions and suspensions in Autumn 2024/25
Rates of exclusion and suspension have been rising since the pandemic. There are signs from the Autumn term that rates might be plateauing.
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
Low oral reading fluency at the end of Key Stage 1
Summer born disadvantaged boys are at much greater risk of achieving a low level of early literacy compared to other pupils
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.
Measuring reading fluency during primary education
We present some early findings from the Reading Assessment Programme, a simple tool to measure reading fluency in primary schools
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
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.
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