Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary schools in Rother Valley constituency achieved the expected standard for Key Stage 2 reading in 2022.

The Department does not publish Key Stage 1 attainment data at school level. Key Stage 1 assessments are not school level accountability measures.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic meant that Key Stage 2 assessments did not take place in the 2019/20 or 2020/21 academic years. Key Stage 2 assessments returned in the 2021/22 academic year, without any adaptations. The Department has made a firm commitment not to publish school level Key Stage 2 results for academic year 2021/22.

At Key Stage 2, the Department does not publish a combined measure for English. The Department does publish a combined measure for reading, writing and maths. For the 2015/16 to 2018/19 academic years, the Department published the number and percentage of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing, and maths (combined) at constituency level. Information for Rother Valley is attached. Constituency level data for 2022 will be published in the Key Stage 2 attainment statistics in December 2022.

New Key Stage 2 assessments were introduced in 2016 to assess the more challenging National Curriculum introduced in 2014. These assessments raised expectations for pupil attainment at the end of Key Stage 2. For this reason, data is provided from academic year 2015/16 only, as data from previous years is not comparable.