The government won’t publish data on primary school pupil progress next year or in 2025 because there are no key stage 1 SATs results to provide a baseline.
The Department for Education confirmed the decision in a guidance update today.
Progress is normally based on a comparison between key stage 1 and key stage 2 SATs results. But key stage 1 SATs were cancelled along with all other school tests in 2020 and 2021.
The DfE said that “given the lack of a statistically robust alternative baseline to calculate primary progress measures, we will not be producing or publishing primary progress measures for 2023-24 and 2024-25”.
