Performance Tables for primary schools have not been published since 2019 but are expected to return later this year.
As usual, they will contain measures of attainment and “progress”.
However, next year there will be a problem. The progress measures use results in Key Stage 1 (KS1) assessments as the measure of prior attainment. But these won’t be available for next year’s Year 6 cohort as KS1 data was not collected in 2020 due to COVID-19.
The Department for Education has indicated that they are looking at alternative options for calculating progress measures. We’ll take a look at these here.
Progress measures are currently calculated for reading, writing and maths at Key Stage 2.
