Literacy

(asked on 21st February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary school children were below their expected reading age in (a) 2018, (b) 2019, (c) 2020 and (d) 2021.


Answered by
Robin Walker Portrait
Robin Walker
This question was answered on 24th February 2022

The department does not hold information on the number of pupils below their reading age in primary school. The closest information available is the number of pupils not meeting the expected standard in reading at the end of key stage 2. This data was not recorded for academic years 2019/20 or 2020/21 due to the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak.

The number of pupils not meeting the expected standard in reading at the end of key stage 2 was 154,169 (25%) in 2018 and 173,765 (27%) in 2019.

The number of pupils not meeting the expected standard in reading at the end of key stage 2 in state-funded schools for each local authority, region and parliamentary constituency in 2019 is in the attached table.

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