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Performance Data

School grades ‘linked to where you live’

BBC News Education – Where children grow up in England is more likely to determine success or failure at school than in previous generations, a study suggests.  The Social Market Foundation has examined test results of cohorts born in 1970 and 2000 and found regional differences have become much greater. TES News – Inequality in […]

2018 performance tables: technical and vocational qualifications

GOV.UK – Technical and vocational qualifications for teaching from September 2016 and reporting in 2018 performance tables.

Pre-school and early home learning: effects on A level outcomes

GOV.UK – Report looking at whether pre-school and early home learning helps students gain more A levels. BBC News Education – Preschools turn children on to learning, says study.

16 to 19 accountability headline measures: technical guide

GOV.UK – Guide for schools, colleges and local authorities on new measures for the 2016 performance tables.

Isolated schools: Out on a limb

The Future Leaders Trust – This research paper explores the relationship between school performance and relative geographical isolation in England, defined as the straight-line distance to the next nearest secondary school.  The research particularly looks at how this relates to the GCSE attainment of students in receipt of Free School Meals (FSM students).  It establishes […]

Migrants ‘do not lower school results’

BBC News Education – Migrants ‘do not lower school results’. OECD – Can schools help to integrate immigrants?

North-south divide mapped in GCSE results

BBC News Education – This year’s GCSE results in England show few signs of a north-south divide getting any narrower. SchoolDash – This site provides Dashboards, Maps and other statistics about schools in England (with other UK nations to follow).

Background to Success: Differences in A-level entries by ethnicity, neighbourhood and gender

The Sutton Trust – This report investigates patterns of academic attainment for different subgroups of a longitudinal sample of more than 3,000 students whose educational outcomes were studied across different phases of school and pre-school from age three to age 18.

Grammar schools do not boost social mobility, report finds

The Independent – Grammar schools do not boost social mobility and a new “tutor-proof” test has done nothing to stop children from wealthier backgrounds being coached to win places at selective schools, according to a new report. Local, Equal, Excellent – Who benefits?  Buckinghamshire’s 11+ exam and outcomes for children.

Factors associated with achievement: key stages 2 and 4

GOV.UK – Research looking at different measures of socio-economic deprivation and their usefulness for providing funding to schools.

Education and training statistics for the United Kingdom: 2015

GOV.UK – Statistics on education and training in schools, further education and higher education across the UK.

Provisional GCSE and equivalent results in England: 2014 to 2015

GOV.UK – Provisional statistics on the achievements of young people at the end of key stage 4 in England. Department for Education – provisional 2015 Key Stage 4 school performance tables.

A level and other level 3 results: 2014 to 2015 (provisional)

GOV.UK – Provisional information on 16- to 18-year-olds’ A level and other level 3 results at the end of their final year.

More questions than answers?

Education Datalab – Secondary schools can now download the marks achieved by each of their new year 7 pupils in every question from the 2015 Key Stage 2 tests. Even better, this data can be imported into RAISEonline so that analysis of test performance can be undertaken for a year group, class or individual pupil broken down by […]

Early years foundation stage profile results: 2014 to 2015 (updated 19 November 2015)

GOV.UK – Early years foundation stage profile (EYFSP) results for the 2014 to 2015 academic year, at national and local authority level.