Exclusions and suspensions in 2024/25
An update to our regular series using attendance data to gauge the rate of exclusion and suspension in the whole of the 2024/25 academic year
Exclusions and suspensions in Autumn and Spring 2024/25
Rates of exclusion and suspension have been rising since the pandemic. But there are emerging signs based on this year's data that rates might be plateauing.
School absences, exclusions and crime amongst high-achieving children from disadvantaged backgrounds
Highlights from new research into high-achieving children from disadvantaged backgrounds, focusing on school absences, exclusions and cautions/sentences from the police.
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