Academic year 2022/23

Key stage 2 attainment

Key stage 2 attainment statistics by pupil characteristics, school characteristics, region and local authority.

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• Produced by: Department for Education
• Published: 14 December 2023
• Last updated: 1 February 2024

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• Attainment by school characteristics

  Attainment of pupils at the end of key stage 2 by school type, school phase, cohort size and religious character and subject (England, 2023)

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• Distribution of scaled scores

  Distribution of scaled scores by subject, including number of eligible pupils at the end of key stage 2 for each scaled score and cumulative percentage (England, 2023)

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• National level attainment at the end of key stage 2 by subject

  National level attainment of pupils at the end of key stage 2 for the expected standard and higher standard by subject for all schools, (England, 2016-2023)

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• Attainment of pupils at the end of key stage 2 by pupil characteristics (England state-funded schools)

  Attainment of pupils at the end of key stage 2 by disadvantage status, ethnicity, first language, month of birth, SEN primary need and SEN status (England state-funded schools, 2023)

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• Attainment of pupils at the end of key stage 2 by region, local authority and gender, 2022/23 (England state-funded schools)

  Key stage 2 attainment by local authority, region, gender and subjects in 2023 (England state-funded schools)

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• Progress scores of pupils at the end of key stage 2 by pupil characteristics, 2023 (England state-funded schools)

  Progress scores by ethnicity, first language, free school meals eligibility, disadvantage pupils, special educational needs, SEN primary need and month of birth

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• Featured table - Ethnicity by FSM

  Attainment of pupils by ethnicity and FSM in 2023 (England, state-funded schools)

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• Featured table - LA by progress scores

  Progress scores of pupils at the end of key stage 2 by subject, local authority and region, 2023 (England, state-funded schools)

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• Featured table - progress scores by school characteristics

  Progress scores of pupils at the end of key stage 2 by school type, school phase, school cohort size and religious character, 2023 (England)

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• Disadvantaged gap index

  National

  This file contains data on the key stage 2 disadvantage gap index in England.

  • Number of rows: 13
  • Indicators:
    • Disadvantage gap index
    • Total number of all other eligible pupils at the end of key stage 2
    • Total number of eligible disadvantaged pupils at the end of key stage 2
  • Time period: 2010/11 to 2022/23

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• Distribution of scaled scores

  National

  This file contains data on scaled score distributions for key stage 2 tests in England.

  • Number of rows: 1,122
  • Indicators:
    • Cumulative percentage
    • Total number of eligible pupils at the end of key stage 2
  • Filters:
    • Scaled scores distribution
    • Subject
    • Gender
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2022/23

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• Attainment by school characteristics

  National

  This file contains data on the attainment of pupils in key stage 2 assessments in England, broken down by school characteristics.

  • Number of rows: 440
  • Indicators:
    • Number of schools
    • Number of eligible pupils in reading, writing and maths
    • Number of eligible pupils in reading
  • Filters:
    • Gender
    • Characteristics of each group
  • Time period: 2015/16 to 2022/23

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• Attainment by pupil characteristics

  National

  This file contains data on the attainment of pupils in key stage 2 assessments in England, broken down by pupil characteristics.

  • Number of rows: 2,418
  • Indicators:
    • Number of schools
    • Number of eligible pupils in reading, writing and maths
    • Number of eligible pupils in reading
  • Filters:
    • Gender
    • Characteristics of each group
  • Time period: 2015/16 to 2022/23

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• Attainment by region and local authority

  Local authority, National, Regional

  This file contains data on the attainment of pupils in key stage 2 assessments in England, broken down by region and local authority.

  • Number of rows: 3,939
  • Indicators:
    • Number of schools
    • Number of eligible pupils in reading, writing and maths
    • Number of eligible pupils in reading
  • Filters:
    • Gender
  • Time period: 2015/16 to 2022/23

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• Attainment by parliamentary constituency

  National, Parliamentary constituency

  This file contains data on the attainment of pupils in key stage 2 assessments in England, broken down by parliamentary constituency.

  • Number of rows: 1,602
  • Indicators:
    • Number of schools
    • Number of eligible pupils in reading, writing and maths
    • Number of eligible pupils in reading
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2022/23

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• Attainment by pupil residency and pupil characteristics

  Local authority district, National, Regional

  This file contains data on the attainment of pupils in key stage 2 assessments in England, broken down by pupil residency and pupil characteristics.

  • Number of rows: 4,833
  • Indicators:
    • Number of schools
    • Number of eligible pupils in reading, writing and maths
    • Number of eligible pupils in reading
  • Filters:
    • Characteristics of each group
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2022/23

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• Attainment by school location and pupil characteristics

  Local authority district, National, Regional

  This file contains data on the attainment of pupils in key stage 2 assessments in England, broken down by school location. This file also contains a flag showing which local authority districts are priority areas. Fenland and East Cambridgeshire, West Somerset  and Scarborough breakdowns are available for 2022 and 2023, these are priority areas which are not local authority districts.

  • Number of rows: 4,858
  • Indicators:
    • Number of schools
    • Number of eligible pupils in grammar, punctuation and spelling
    • Number of eligible pupils in maths
  • Filters:
    • Characteristics of each group
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2022/23

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• Attainment by phonics prior attainment

  National

  This file contains data on the attainment of pupils in key stage 2 assessments in England, broken down by phonics prior attainment. This file gives breakdowns for all pupils and by disadvantage status. Within the underlying data file all rows where "disadvantaged status" is "All pupils" reflect the figures for all schools in England. Rows where "disadvantaged status" is "Disadvantaged" or "Not known to be disadvantaged" reflect the figures for all state-funded schools in England. As a result numbers of "Disadvantaged" and "Not known to be disadvantaged" will not sum to "All pupils".

  • Number of rows: 189
  • Indicators:
    • Number of eligible pupils in reading
    • Number of eligible pupils in reading average scaled score calculation
    • Number of eligible pupils in writing TA
  • Filters:
    • Disadvantage status
    • Final phonics outcome
    • Gender
  • Time period: 2016/17 to 2022/23

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• National schools distribution

  National

  The national distribution table of schools in the key stage 2 assessments in England.

  • Number of rows: 505
  • Indicators:
    • Number of schools
  • Filters:
    • Percentage of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (combined)
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2022/23

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• Attainment by region, local authority and pupil characteristics

  Local authority, National, Regional

  This file contains data on the attainment of pupils in key stage 2 assessments in England, broken down by region, local authority and pupil characteristics.

  • Number of rows: 54,244
  • Indicators:
    • Average progress score for maths
    • Average progress score for reading
    • Average progress score for writing TA
  • Filters:
    • Characteristics of each group
    • Gender
  • Time period: 2018/19 to 2022/23

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• Attainment by school type and pupil characteristics

  National

  This file contains data on the attainment of pupils in key stage 2 assessments in England, broken down by school type and pupil characteristics.

  • Number of rows: 56
  • Indicators:
    • Number of eligible pupils in reading, writing and maths
    • Number of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths
    • Percentage of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (combined)
  • Filters:
    • Characteristics of each group
    • Type of school
  • Time period: 2022/23

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• Multi-academy trusts by pupil characteristics

  National

  Headline  attainment measures in multi-academy trusts broken down by performance tables eligibility, academy type, and the following pupil characteristics: sex, major and minor ethnicity, special educational need description, disadvantaged status, first language, and prior attainment status.

  • Number of rows: 911
  • Indicators:
    • Average progress score for maths
    • Average progress score for reading
    • Average progress score for writing TA
  • Filters:
    • Academy type
    • The characteristic of the pupil
    • The performance tables eligibility of the pupils' academy
  • Time period: 2021/22 to 2022/23

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• Multi-academy trusts by characteristics

  National

  Headline attainment measures in multi-academy trusts broken down by performance tables eligibility, academy type, and the following trust characteristics: the number of years the academies have been in their trust and the number of KS4 academies in their trust.

  • Number of rows: 359
  • Indicators:
    • Average progress score for maths
    • Average progress score for reading
    • Average progress score for writing TA
  • Filters:
    • Academy type
    • The characteristic of the pupil
    • The performance tables eligibility of the pupils' academy
  • Time period: 2021/22 to 2022/23

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• Attainment by academies open years

  National

  This file contains data on the attainment of academies, broken down by the length of time they have been open.

  • Number of rows: 105
  • Indicators:
    • Number of eligible pupils in reading, writing and maths
    • Percentage of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (combined)
    • School count
  • Filters:
    • School type
    • Years open
  • Time period: 2016/17 to 2022/23

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• Progress by academies open years

  National

  This file contains data on the progress of academies, broken down by the length of time they have been open.

  • Number of rows: 29
  • Indicators:
    • Average progress score for maths
    • Average progress score for reading
    • Average progress score for writing TA
  • Filters:
    • School type
    • Years open
  • Time period: 2022/23

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Supporting files

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1 supporting data file

• Key stage 2 transition matrices 2023

  Matrices showing the number of pupils with each key stage 2 outcome, by prior attainment group in 2023 (England, state-funded schools).

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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

Description

These data files contain statistics covering attainment in the following key stage 2 assessments:

• reading, writing and maths
• reading test
• maths test 
• grammar, punctuation and spelling (GPS) test 
• writing teacher assessment
• science teacher assessment

The publication methodology should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality, as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data. 

Coverage

This publication provides information on assessment outcomes in state-funded primary schools.  Data is for England only.

File formats and conventions

This dataset has been rounded to 0 decimal places. 

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