Changes in schools’ Progress 8 scores over time
A look at how the Progress 8 scores of schools have changed since the measure was introduced, including breakdowns by region, school type, and school-level disadvantage
A look at how the Progress 8 scores of schools have changed since the measure was introduced, including breakdowns by region, school type, and school-level disadvantage
We pick out some highlights from this year's performance tables
DfE recently announced plans to change the EBacc average point score measure to incentivise take-up of all six subjects
The north/south divide in school performance is mostly a distraction. Most of the variation in school performance is very local, between nearby schools.
Labour have announced plans to include a "slot" for a creative or vocational subject in Progress 8. We investigate the possible impact.
We show the correlation between pupil absence in Years 10 and 11 and Progress 8 scores and explore how this relates to the disadvantage gap
There has been a small decrease in the proportion of young people entered for one or more qualifications in creative subjects since Progress 8 was introduced in 2016. But is Progress 8 to blame?
Both inspection outcomes and Progress 8 scores are imperfect proxies of school quality. We examine how strongly they are related.
104 previously outstanding secondary schools were re-inspected last year- and just 25% kept their outstanding rating.