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8 6 7 7 6 5 6


Attainment 8 score


7 8 6 7 7 6 5 6


Doubled Yes


Yes No No No No No No


Total 14


16 6 7 7 6 5 6


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This means that Jack has achieved an average of just under three-quarters of a grade better per subject than other pupils with the same prior level of attainment at the end of Key Stage 2.


Jack has progressed well during his time at secondary school. However, the key to the new system is that students’ progress is more important than their actual grades. A Progress 8 score can improve even if a pupil who is working below his or her estimated grade moves up one grade. For mainstream pupils nationally, the average Progress 8 score will be 0. However, if pupils do not progress so well, and in fact fall beneath the average Attainment 8 score for similar-achieving students, their Progress 8 score can be a negative number. This will have a detrimental effect on the school’s final Progress 8 score.


Schools are not expected to share individual Progress 8 scores with their pupils.


In 2016, the government introduced new Key Stage 2 tests with scaled scores ranging from 80–120, so the way in which a child’s Progress 8 score is calculated will change when this cohort of students takes their GCSEs in 2021.


A school’s Progress 8 score will be calculated as the


average of its pupils’ Progress 8 scores. Jack is one of 142 pupils in his school year. Every pupil’s Progress 8 score is added up, in this case making a total of 36.5. This figure is then divided by the number of students (36.5/142 = 0.26). Provisional figures for 2017, the second year in which Progress 8 scores have been published, show that Progress 8 scores for mainstream schools run from -2.5 to +1.8, with approximately 99 per cent of schools’ scores ranging from -1.6 to +1.2. A Progress 8 score of above 0 means a school is making above-average progress. Due to complications as the GCSE grading system changes to a numerical system via a phased approach, it is difficult to accurately compare the results to those from 2016. While it’s important to remember that performance data is only part of the story, it looks as if the new information will indeed go some way to breaking down the real differences between schools, offering relocating parents a clearer picture of whether a new school in a new location will be right for their child.


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