Do EHC Plans prevent exclusions?
Summer born pupils are more likely to have EHC plans than Autumn born pupils. We look at whether this fact could be used to explore the relationship between EHC plans and exclusions.
The relationship between month of birth, exclusions and identification of special educational needs
Pupils born in the summer are more likely to be identified as having special educational needs and disadabilities but are also (slightly) less likely to be excluded or suspended.
What do the latest Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results show?
Good news about summer-born children – but other attainment gaps aren't closing
An early look at 2019 Key Stage 1 results
What are the main findings from FFT’s Early Results Service?
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 [...]
What difference does a year make? Part 3
This is part three in a series of posts exploring trends in attainment over time by month of birth. Other posts in the series can be found here. The first two blogposts in this series showed that pupils’ attainment varies with their month of birth, with September-born pupils on average having higher attainment than those born [...]
What difference does a year make? Part 2
This is part two in a series of posts exploring trends in attainment over time by month of birth. Other posts in the series can be found here. In the first part in this series we looked at how attainment at age seven – Key Stage 1 – varied with pupils’ month of birth. Overall, [...]
What difference does a year make? Part 1
This is part one in a series of posts exploring trends in attainment over time by month of birth. Other posts in the series can be found here. Dave Thomson’s recent blogpost about how attainment varies by month of birth reminded me of one of the reasons I first got interested in looking at the impact [...]
Getting older quicker
At Datalab we write about half a dozen blogposts in a typical month. Some we slave over and others we knock out in a matter of minutes, usually with one eye on the football or Paw Patrol. Being unashamed data wonks, we then pore over Google Analytics to see which of our posts have left [...]