Proxies of Progress 8
As there will be no Progress 8 measures this summer, we look at a few options for calculating proxy scores instead
As there will be no Progress 8 measures this summer, we look at a few options for calculating proxy scores instead
RISE teams are the government's new school improvement taskforce. We look at how their work in targeted intervention schools might be evaluated.
In this second part we calculate some alternative performance indicators that reflect pupil mobility
We set the scene for measuring pupil mobility alongside secondary school performance indicators and examine how many pupils change schools between Year 7 and Year 11.
As we celebrate our tenth birthday, we look back at some of the issues we were talking about when Datalab launched, and reflect on some of the other big issues in education today.
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.
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
A round-up of provisional Key Stage 4 Performance Tables data for 2024. Will Progress 8 be missed next year?
We take a trip back in time to catch up with secondary schools that were persistently low attaining at the turn of the century, under the previous Labour government