Data set from Key stage 4 performance

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Published 1 February 2024

Last updated 1 February 2024

National level headline entry and attainment measures broken down by year, detailed school type, gender, major and minor ethnicity, free school meal eligibility, special educational need status and description, primary need, disadvantaged status, first language, school admission type and school religious denomination.

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Data set details

• Theme: School and college outcomes and performance
• Publication: Key stage 4 performance
• Release: Academic year 2022/23
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Average Attainment 8 score of all pupils
  • Average EBacc APS score per pupil
  • Average Progress 8 score of all pupils
• Filters:
  • The characteristic of the pupil
• Time period: 2018/19 to 2022/23

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	version	establishment_type	characteristics_group	characteristic	t_schools	t_pupils	t_att8	avg_att8	t_entbasics	pt_entbasics	t_l2basics_95	pt_l2basics_95	t_l2basics_94	pt_l2basics_94	t_ebacc_e_ptq_ee	pt_ebacc_e_ptq_ee	t_ebacc_95	pt_ebacc_95	t_ebacc_94	pt_ebacc_94	t_ebaccaps	avg_ebaccaps	t_inp8calc	t_p8score	avg_p8score	p8score_ci_low	p8score_ci_upp
202223	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Revised	All state-funded	Disadvantage	Disadvantaged	4028	159363	5575875.28	35	146138	91.7	40151	25.2	69151	43.4	44189	27.7	11739	7.4	19176	12	473931.49	2.97	148768	-84562.989	-0.57	-0.58	-0.56
202223	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Revised	All state-funded	Disadvantage	Disadvantaged all other	4030	447552	22511899.3	50.3	437391	97.7	234665	52.4	325936	72.8	194134	43.4	91333	20.4	127637	28.5	1986799.2	4.44	419762	69582.287	0.17	0.16	0.17
202223	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Revised	All state-funded	Ethnicity	Asian - Any other Asian background	2398	12152	660131.02	54.3	11737	96.6	7595	62.5	9371	77.1	6451	53.1	3465	28.5	4484	36.9	59896.44	4.93	10276	7064.514	0.69	0.66	0.71
202223	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Revised	All state-funded	Ethnicity	Asian - Bangladeshi	1503	10981	570309	51.9	10701	97.5	6271	57.1	8207	74.7	5956	54.2	2537	23.1	3557	32.4	50742.91	4.62	10198	5076.64	0.5	0.47	0.53
202223	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Revised	All state-funded	Ethnicity	Asian - Chinese	1495	3383	221736.26	65.5	3328	98.4	2650	78.3	2996	88.6	2171	64.2	1580	46.7	1838	54.3	20963.06	6.2	2133	2294.551	1.08	1.02	1.14

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 24 variables

Variable name	Variable description
avg_att8	Average Attainment 8 score of all pupils
avg_ebaccaps	Average EBacc APS score per pupil
avg_p8score	Average Progress 8 score of all pupils
characteristic	The characteristic of the pupil
p8score_ci_low	Progress 8 lower 95% confidence interval

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Footnotes

1. All state-funded schools include local authority maintained mainstream schools, academies, free schools, city technology colleges, further education colleges with provision for 14 to 16 year-olds and state-funded special schools. They exclude independent schools, independent special schools, non-maintained special schools, hospital schools, pupil referral units and alternative provision. Alternative provision includes academy and free school alternative provision. 
2. Some zero percentages may represent small numbers due to rounding.
3. z = When an observation is not applicable
4. In 2020 and 2021  Progress 8 data was not published because of the cancellation of GCSE exams (due to COVID-19). Calculating Progress 8 has an element of modelling (estimating the average Attainment 8 score for pupils with similar prior attainment) and with the lack of exam data, the Progress 8 measure is not meaningful as a measure of Progress. Progress 8 was reintroduced from 2022.
5. English as an additional language (EAL) unclassified includes pupils whom first language was not obtained, refused or could not be determined.
6. English includes pupils whose first language is English and pupils whose first language is not known but believed to be English.
7. Other than English includes pupils whose first language is other than English and pupils whose first language is not known but believed to be other than English.
8. Free school meals (FSM) does not relate to pupils who actually received free school meals but those who are eligible to receive free school meals. Pupils not eligible for free school meals or unclassified pupils are described as 'FSM all other’.
9. Sub totals may not sum to the grand total due to a small number of pupils with missing information e.g. for  SEN, EAL, prior attainment level, religious denomination and admission type.
10. From 2014/15, disadvantaged pupils include pupils known to be eligible for free school meals (FSM) in any spring, autumn, summer, alternative provision or pupil referral unit census from year 6 to year 11 or are looked after children for at least one day or are adopted from care.  For 2013/14 and earlier years, they include pupils known to be eligible for FSM in any spring, autumn, summer, alternative provision or pupil referral unit census from year 6 to year 11 or are looked after children.
11. Disadvantaged all other includes pupils for whom free school meal eligibility could not be determined.
12. Statement/EHC plan indicates whether a pupil a pupil has a statement of SEN or an education, health and care (EHC) plan when a formal assessment has been made.
13. SEN support indicates whether a pupil has extra or different help given from that provided as part of the school’s usual curriculum. The class teacher and SEN coordinator (SENCO) may receive advice or support from outside specialists. This category replaces the former ‘school action’ and ‘school action plus’ categories.
14. All pupils with a primary need (from 2014/15 onwards this consisted of pupils flagged as SEN with a statement, EHC plan, SEN support).
15. Following special educational needs and disability (SEND) reforms in 2014/15, SEN pupils are categorised as 'SEN with a statement or Education, health and care (EHC) plan' and 'SEN support'. SEN support replaces 'school action' and 'school action plus' (grouped as SEN without a statement up to and including 2013/14) but some pupils remain with these provision types in first year of transition. More detailed information on the reforms can be found at this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-code-of-practice-0-to-25
16. Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) was added as a new type of need in 2014/15; the previous type of need Behaviour, Emotional and Social Difficulties has been removed although it is not expected that SEMH will be a direct replacement.
17. Unclassified ethnicity includes pupils whom ethnicity was not obtained, refused or could not be determined.

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