The Department for Education (DfE) have finally published their long-awaited Key Stage 4 statistical first release (SFR) today.
This includes provisional Progress 8 (P8) data for all state-funded schools for what could be the last time. It certainly won’t be published next year or the year after due to the cancellation of Key Stage 2 tests (the baseline measure for P8) during the pandemic in 2020 and 2021.
Much attention will no doubt be paid cambodia rcs data to the schools at the top of P8 rankings. However, these are exceptional cases and, for most schools, Progress 8 scores aren’t that different.
As well as P8, the SFR also provides data on other headline indicators and a range of breakdowns by different pupil characteristics that are not available when results are published on results day in the summer.
We have a dig around the (many) tables published by DfE to pick out a few interesting features that might otherwise get missed.
Attainment 8 scores have fallen
In our results day round-up of GCSE results we noted that there was little change in this year’s GCSE results but there was a decline in results in Level 1/ Level 2 awards in vocational and technical subjects.