Do disadvantaged students choose different subjects from their peers at Key Stage 5?
We look at the routes that disadvantaged students take at Key Stage 5 and the individual subjects that they choose
How much Pupil Premium funding have schools missed out on? An update
Revisiting the impact of DfE changing their methodology for Pupil Premium funding
Has the Key Stage 4 disadvantage gap widened this year?
Provisional analysis using data from 1,200 secondary schools suggests that the gap widened slightly in 2021.
How much Pupil Premium funding have schools missed out on?
See how much funding schools have missed out on as a result of changes to the way pupil premium funding has been allocated this year.
Should we bring back contextual value added?
Did CVA really lead to lower expectations?
Progress 8 for disadvantaged pupils in coastal schools
How have pupils in coastal areas fared under the GCSE reforms of recent years?
The forgotten 31.6%
Nearly a third of pupils don’t achieve a standard pass in English. What do we know about these pupils?
The relationship between Progress 8 and Ofsted judgments for disadvantaged schools
Looking at inspections since the introduction of Progress 8.
Long-term disadvantage, part three: Ethnicity, EAL and long-term disadvantage
This is part three in a series of blogposts exploring long-term disadvantage. Other posts in the series can be found here. The previous post touched on the relationship between ethnicity, disadvantage and KS2-to-KS4 progress. It made a simple distinction, with white British pupils in one group and all other minority ethnic pupils in another group. [...]