School counts by average Progress 8 scores for disadvantaged White British pupils
School counts by average Progress 8 for disadvantaged White British pupils, for schools with 20% disadvantaged White British pupils at the end of KS4 in 2023/24
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Background information
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.
Headline facts and figures
Headline number of schools
21
What is this figure?
Among secondary 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 White British disadvantaged pupils greater than 0
Among secondary 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.
Progress 8 aims to capture the progress a pupil makes from the end of KS2 to the end of KS4. It compares pupils’ achievement – their Attainment 8 score – with the national average Attainment 8 score of all pupils who had a similar starting point (or ‘prior attainment’), calculated using assessment results from the end of primary school. Progress 8 is a relative measure, therefore the national average Progress 8 score for mainstream schools is very close to zero. It can be used to compare the progress of different pupil characteristics and geography breakdowns. See the links in the methodology section for more information on Progress 8 and Attainment 8.
Progress 8 scores do not account for a range of other factors which could influence school attainment for disadvantaged White British pupils – such as the depth of deprivation in different areas, the wider demographics of the school or factors like special educational needs and disabilities. Progress 8 scores for small groups of pupils are also likely to fluctuate over time, so this data only presents a snapshot of performance.
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.
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 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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