Academic year 2023/24

School counts by average Progress 8 scores for disadvantaged White British pupils

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  1. Corrected total number of schools in commentary from 3,456 to 3,452

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This publication presents school counts by average Progress 8 score bands for disadvantaged White British pupils, for schools that had more than 20% disadvantaged White British pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 in 2023/24.


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Progress 8 scores for disadvantaged White British Pupils

This analysis presents school counts by Progress 8 scores for disadvantaged White British pupils, for those secondary schools where more than 20% of the pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 (KS4) were White British disadvantaged.

Pupils are defined as disadvantaged if they are known to have been eligible for free school meals at any point in the past six years (from year 6 to year 11), if they are recorded as having been looked after for at least one day or if they are recorded as having been adopted from care.

There were 3,452 state funded secondary schools in England in total in 2023/24, but in this analysis, only 3,087 are included. To align with the suppression policy of the Compare school and college performance (opens in a new tab) website, any schools with 5 pupils or fewer are excluded. 

Of those 3,087 schools, only 1,228 had more than 20% of pupils at the end of KS4 who were disadvantaged and White British. This restriction is important to remove schools with small numbers of disadvantaged White British pupils (as we would expect considerably more statistical uncertainty with small sample sizes), and to focus the analysis on schools with more similar pupil demographics, with a significant proportion of White British disadvantaged children.

Among those 1,228 schools with more than 20% of pupils at the end of KS4 who were disadvantaged and White British, 21 had a Progress 8 score for disadvantaged White British pupils that was greater than 0, indicating that in those schools, disadvantaged White British pupils made more progress than the average pupil in the country between KS2 and KS4.

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