Besides Department for Education (DfE) professional and production staff, the following post holders were given pre-release access up to 24 hours before release.

Secretary of State

Minister of State

Permanent Secretary

Director General, Digital and Infrastructure group

Special Advisor X 6

DD, Communications Group

G6, SoS Press secretary Media Officer

G7, News and social media X 2

HEO, Senior Media Officer , Communications Group

CEO, Standard and Testing Agency (STA)

DD, Assessment Research and Development

G6, Head of Policy and Stateholder Engagement, STA

SEO, Data & Analysis function, Regions group

HEO, Data & Analysis function, Regions group

Associate Director, National Assessments regulation, Ofqual

Director General Qualifications and national assessments, Ofqual

Senior Manager, national assessment regulation, Ofqual

Deputy Chief Regulator, Ofqual

Chief Regulator, Ofqual

Executive Director General Qualifications, Ofqual

DD, Schools Group

G6, Head of English

Grade 7, English Curriculum Policy Lead, HEALD

G6, English, Maths, Music and Arts Division

G7, Maths Policy team, English, Maths, Music and Arts Division

SEO, Policy Advisor, English, Maths, Music and Arts Division

G6, Accountability policy

G7, Accountability policy

G7, Strategic Attainment

Dir, Regions group

G7, Head of Science Curriculum Policy

DD, Head of Schools and Pupils Analysis Division

Director of Inclusive Mainstream

G7, KS2 assessments DDaT, STA

Date updated	Summary of update
10 September 2026	Datasets now available via the API
16 July 2026	First published

Updates to Academic year 2025/26Key stage 2 attainment: National headlines

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