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Key Stage 4 performance tables 2018: Four key points from this year’s data
Secondary school performance tables have been published this morning together with an associated statistical release on attainment at a national level. Some of the information it contains was included...
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Key Stage 4 performance tables 2018: The impact of 9-1 grades and the removal...
This year’s secondary school performance tables include results in the second set of GCSE subjects to be reformed and graded 9-1. This includes all the English Baccalaureate subjects (science,...
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Secondary MAT league tables 2018: A first look at year-on-year performance
Update 11:55, 27 February 2019: A reference to five trusts highlighted in blue in the first chart has been corrected to a reference to seven trusts. Along with secondary school league tables,...
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Progress 8 for pupils with SEN: Are P8 scores really that low?
Last week’s statistics on Key Stage 4 attainment showed that the Progress 8 score for pupils with special educational needs met by a statement or education, health and care plan (EHCP) was -1.09. In...
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Progress 8 scores for most schools aren’t that different
In the wake of the publication of secondary school performance tables last month, there was a brief flurry of activity about ranking schools based on Progress 8 scores. This tweet from Tom Sherrington...
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Crying Wolf? Part one
This is the first of two blogposts about an article we’ve recently had published in the British Educational Research Journal on the impact of the reforms to school accountability introduced following...
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Crying Wolf? Part two
This is the second of two blogposts about an article we’ve recently had published in the British Educational Research Journal on the impact of the reforms to school accountability introduced following...
View ArticleExploring MAT Ofsted ratings
A chart or charts in this post require JavaScript, which is turned off in your browser. Both the current and previous Chief Inspectors have wanted the power to inspect multi-academy trusts, but have...
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The Curious Case of the Year 11 Summer Returners
While undertaking analysis of the National Pupil Database (NPD) to produce our recent post-Timpson Review blogposts (like this and this), I became intrigued by a strange phenomenon in which Year 11...
View ArticleTwo things to bear in mind when looking at new exclusions data
A chart or charts in this post require JavaScript, which is turned off in your browser. The latest exclusion figures have just been published by the Department for Education. Permanent exclusion rates...
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Solutions to problems with Progress 8, part two: taking account of context
The biggest criticism we hear about Progress 8 is that it is biased against schools with disadvantaged intakes. This isn’t a problem unique to Progress 8. Any measure of attainment would be too....
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Solutions to problems with Progress 8, part one: qualification scoring
Provisional Progress 8 scores for 2019 will be published tomorrow. The first set of calculations shared with schools for checking were missing a chunk of BTEC results. These have since been found and...
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Contextualised attainment at Key Stage 2
This blogpost supports a new report available to schools in FFT Aspire, but may be of interest to a wider audience. Download the report for your school now. When the 2019 Key Stage 2 performance tables...
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Who’s Left 2019, part three: The government needs to take action
Our Who’s Left work has led us to conclude that a group of 6,700-9,200 pupils from the 2018 GCSE cohort did not take any qualifications or, if they did, did not count in the results of any...
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Who’s Left 2019, part two: How do you lose 6,700 pupils?
It nigh on three years since we first published Who’s Left, our work that provided the first proper account of how many pupils were leaving mainstream school rolls, where they were going – and, in...
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Who’s Left 2019, part one: The disadvantage gap is bigger than we thought
The gap in attainment between disadvantaged pupils and their peers is rightly given considerable attention by those at all levels of the education system. In recent years, this gap has narrowed....
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Key Stage 4 performance tables 2019: Four key points
Key Stage 4 performance tables for 2019 have just been published along with associated statistics. Here’s a quick roundup of things we’ve spotted. 1. The south continues to outperform the north and...
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Secondary MAT league tables 2019: We need to talk about context
Performance measures for multi-academy trusts have been published this morning, alongside school-level results. Most of the coverage of the MAT league tables takes the form: ‘Which are the best...
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Identifying areas of poor secondary school progress
A chart or charts in this post require JavaScript, which is turned off in your browser. The recent publication of the secondary school league tables saw Knowsley at the bottom of the list for Progress...
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Could Progress 8 still be calculated in 2025?
To those of us who think things never change, these last few weeks have come as a bit of a shock. Maybe things will never be the same again. But let’s imagine pupils go back to taking GCSEs and other...
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