Primary Education: Standards
(asked on 27th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the relative level of pupil performance in West Sussex at key stage (a) 1, (b) 2, (c) 3 and (d) 4 compared to the average such performance in England.
Information on pupil performance in West Sussex and nationally at Key Stages 1, 2 and 4 is published as part of the “Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2016”[1], “National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2016 (provisional)”[2] and “GCSE and equivalent results: 2015 to 2016 (provisional)”[3] statistical first releases (SFRs).
The Department no longer collects information on Key Stage 3 results. Further details are available in the secondary school accountability consultation response[4].
The table below shows 2016 teacher assessed provisional attainment information for pupils at the end of Key Stage 1:
[3] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gcse-and-equivalent-results-2015-to-2016-provisional
State funded schools | West Sussex | England | ||||
| Number of eligible pupils1 | Percentage reaching the expected standard2 | Percentage reaching the higher standard | Number of eligible pupils1 | Percentage reaching the expected standard2 | Percentage reaching the higher standard |
Reading | 9,240 | 69 | 16 | 641,598 | 74 | 24 |
Writing | 9,240 | 53 | 7 | 641,598 | 65 | 13 |
Mathematics | 9,240 | 65 | 9 | 641,598 | 73 | 18 |
Science3 | 9,240 | 78 | - | 641,595 | 82 | - |
Source: Key Stage 1 attainment information
Notes:
- Includes pupils who are absent, disapplied, working below/towards the expected standard and reached a higher standard at the end of key stage 1. Excludes pupils with missing teacher assessments.
- Includes those working at the expected standard and those working at greater depth within the expected standard.
- The percentage reaching the higher standard for science is not applicable
The table below shows 2016 provisional attainment information for pupils at the end of Key Stage 2 in reading, writing (teacher assessment) and mathematics:
State funded schools1 | West Sussex | England | ||||
| Number of eligible pupils2 | Percentage reaching the expected standard3 | Percentage achieving a high score4 | Number of eligible pupils2 | Percentage reaching the expected standard3 | Percentage achieving a high score4 |
Reading, writing and mathematics | 8,276 | 44 | 2 | 586,181 | 52 | 5 |
Source: 2015/16 (Provisional) Primary school performance data
Notes:
- Figures for academies, free schools and CTCs are included in the individual LA figures and also in the total for England state-funded schools. Figures for hospital schools and pupil referral units are excluded.
- Includes pupils who have reached the end of key stage 2 in all of reading, writing and mathematics. Excludes pupils with lost test results but includes those with missing results and those with pending maladministration.
- Includes those pupils who reached the expected standard in all of reading, writing and mathematics. The expected standard in reading and mathematics is a scaled score of 100 or above. The expected standard in writing is a teacher assessment of 'working at the expected standard' (EXS) or 'working at greater depth within the expected standard' (GDS).
- Includes those pupils who reached a higher standard in all of reading, writing and mathematics. A higher standard is a scaled score of 110 or more in reading and mathematics and pupils assessed as working at greater depth within the expected standard (GDS) in writing.
The table below shows 2016 provisional GCSE and equivalent entries and achievements of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4:
State funded schools1 | West Sussex | England | ||
Number of pupils at the end of key stage 42 | 8,129 | 538,623 | ||
| Pupils entered for all components | Percentage of pupils who achieved | Pupils entered for all components | Percentage of pupils who achieved |
A*-C in English and maths GCSEs | 96.7 | 64.5 | 96.8 | 62.8 |
English Baccalaureate | 40.9 | 26.0 | 39.7 | 24.6 |
State funded schools | West Sussex | England |
Average attainment 8 score per pupil3 | 50.7 | 49.9 |
State funded schools | West Sussex | England | ||
| Number of pupils included in the measure | Average Progress 8 score4 | Number of pupils included in the measure | Average Progress 8 score4 |
Progress 83 | 7,756 | 0.11 | 512,368 | -0.03 |
Source: 2015/16 key stage 4 attainment data (Provisional)
Notes: 1. Cover achievements in state-funded schools only. They do not include pupils recently arrived from overseas and so will not match with state-funded figures in the main tables. |
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2. Includes entries and achievements by these pupils in previous academic years. |
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3. Attainment 8 and Progress 8 are part of the new secondary accountability system being implemented for all schools from 2016. Attainment 8 is calculated for all schools, Progress 8 is calculated for state-funded schools and non-maintained special schools only. More information on the calculation of these measures is available in the Progress 8 guidance: |
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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/progress-8-school-performance-measure | |||||||||||
4. A Progress 8 score of 1.0 means pupils in the group make on average a grade more progress than the national average; a score of -0.5 means they make on average half a grade less progress than average. Progress 8 scores should be interpreted alongside the associated confidence intervals. If the lower bound of the confidence interval is greater than zero, it can be interpreted as meaning that the group achieves greater than average progress compared to pupils in mainstream schools nationally and that this is statistically significant. If the upper bound is negative, this means that the group achieves lower than average progress compared to pupils in mainstream schools nationally and that this is statistically significant. |
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