Multi-academy trusts by MAT characteristics
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Data set details
- Theme
- School and college outcomes and performance
- Publication
- Key stage 2 attainment
- API data set ID
- 019afee5-8e59-760e-9234-810203412301
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- Number of rows
- 2,868
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Average progress score
- Lower confidence interval
- Number of eligible pupils at the end of key stage 2
- Filters
- Academy eligible to be on the performance tables
- Academy type group
- MAT characteristics
- Time period
- 2021/22 to 2024/25
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| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | version | performance_tables_eligibility | trust_type | establishment_type_group | breakdown_topic | breakdown | subject | establishment_count | cohort_pupil_count | eligible_pupil_count | progress_measure_eligible_pupil_count | expected_standard_pupil_percent | progress_measure_score | progress_measure_upper_conf_interval | progress_measure_lower_conf_interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202122 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Final | Eligible | Multi-academy trusts | All multi-academy trust schools | Number of years in trust | 3 | Reading, writing and maths | 548 | 23021 | 22982 | z | 58 | z | z | z |
| 202122 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Final | Eligible | Multi-academy trusts | All multi-academy trust schools | Number of years in trust | 3 | Reading | 548 | 23021 | 23019 | 21758 | 74 | 0.05 | 0.14 | -0.03 |
| 202122 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Final | Eligible | Multi-academy trusts | All multi-academy trust schools | Number of years in trust | 3 | Maths | 548 | 23021 | 23016 | 21731 | 71 | 0.09 | 0.17 | 0.01 |
| 202122 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Final | Eligible | Multi-academy trusts | All multi-academy trust schools | Number of years in trust | 3 | Writing | 548 | 23021 | 22988 | 21848 | 70 | 0.31 | 0.39 | 0.23 |
| 202122 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Final | Eligible | Multi-academy trusts | All multi-academy trust schools | Number of years in trust | 4 | Reading, writing and maths | 805 | 33128 | 33056 | z | 58 | z | z | z |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| breakdown | MAT characteristics |
| cohort_pupil_count | Number of eligible pupils in the cohort |
| eligible_pupil_count | Number of eligible pupils at the end of key stage 2 |
| establishment_count | Number of schools |
| establishment_type_group | Academy type group |
Footnotes
- Figures for 2025 are based on revised data. Figures for other years are based on final data.
- Includes state funded mainstream academies within multi-academy trusts only. Special schools, pupil referral units, alternative provision academies and alternative provision free schools are not included.
- All multi-academy trust schools include academy converter, academy sponsor led and free schools.
- Eligible academies include academies in a multi-academy trust that met the inclusion criteria, i.e., a multi-academy trust that contained at least three academies with results at that phase of education/cohort and where those academies have been in the multi-academy trust for at least three academic years. Ineligible academies were either in a multi-academy trust that did not meet the inclusion criteria or were in a multi-academy trust that met the inclusion criteria, but the academy had not been in the multi-academy trust for at least three academic years.
- Academies have been associated with the multi-academy trust that they were part of on 12 September at the start of the academic year. Institutions that joined a multi-academy trust during the academic year are not included
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- API data set ID
- 019afee5-8e59-760e-9234-810203412301
- API data set version
- 1.0
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