A two-year hiatus from Progress 8 should be used to “rethink performance tables”, school leaders have said.
But some warned we could now see the creep back to GCSE pass grades being the “king of accountability”.
Officials had been exploring alternative progress options due to the lack of SATs data for the cohorts taking their GCSEs next year and in 2025-26.
However, on Thursday they concluded there was “no replacement”. Remaining headline attainment measures, such as English baccalaureate entries, attainment 8 and grade 5 passes in English and maths, will be published.
A time-series of three years of data will also return.
