Secondary Education: Standards

(asked on 10th December 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, on the current definition of "coasting", what percentage of secondary schools with an average KS2 points score of (1) below 26, (2) 26–28, (3) 28–30, and (4) more than 30, would achieve the required benchmarks with regards to (a) achieving below 0 on progress, and (b) achieving below –0.5 on progress, on their (i) 2014, and (ii) 2015, results.


Answered by
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Lord Nash
This question was answered on 21st December 2015

No school can be defined as coasting under the government’s proposed coasting definition until after the 2016 results are available. The definition of coasting is determined by performance over a three year period.

Progress 8 results for 2015 will be published as part of the key stage 4 performance tables in January 2016 for schools which chose to opt-in early. Progress 8 was not used as an accountability measure in 2014, and does not form part of the government’s proposed definition for coasting in that year.

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