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.
The link between exclusions, alternative provision and off-rolling
Explaining how these three things fit together.
The effect of pupils moving into and out of the Pupil Premium group
How are schools’ results affected as Pupil Premium statuses change?
The relationship between Progress 8 and Ofsted judgments for disadvantaged schools
Looking at inspections since the introduction of Progress 8.
Key Stage 4 performance tables 2017: Closing the gap just got harder
Today’s Key Stage 4 statistical release from the Department for Education shows the gap between disadvantaged pupils and others to be narrowing slightly [PDF]. This is based on the DfE's gap index, which is calculated by ranking pupils according to their English and mathematics grades and then calculating an overall index. It would appear to be [...]
KS2 performance tables 2017: Three things from this morning’s data
Today’s Key Stage 2 Statistical First Release provides further information on the 2017 Key Stage 2 results which we first wrote about here. This includes school-level data, plus data on the performance of different groups of pupils. There are some interesting differences in progress scores between ethnic groups There is much greater variation in the [...]