Institution record data update: Attainment data for English institutions

We are pleased to announce that the following fields have been updated for English and Northern Irish institutions, where data is available:

• ‘Pupils at end of Key Stage 2’
• ‘Reaching Expected Standard in Reading, Writing and Mathematics’
• ‘Average Scaled Score’
• ‘Pupils at end of Key Stage 4’
• ‘Pupils achieving 9-4 in English and Mathematics’
• ‘Pupils achieving 9-5 in English and Mathematics’
• ‘Pupils achieving English Baccalaureate with 9-4’
• ‘Average Attainment 8 Score Per Pupil’
• ‘Average Progress 8 Score Per Pupil’
• ‘Pupils at end of 16-18 study’
• ‘Pupils entered for Key Stage 5 exams’
• ‘Pupils entered for at least one tech level qualification’
• ‘Pupils entered for at least one A level qualification’
• ‘Pupils achieving 3 A levels at grades AAB’
• ‘Average Attainment Point Score’
• ‘Value Added Score’
• ‘Number included in Value Added Measure’

These fields can be found in the Attainment tab of an Institution record, under the sections titled ‘Key Stage 2 (KS2)’, ‘Key Stage 4 (KS4)’. The fields are also exportable via an Institution Profile Report (members only), which can be found on the Reports section of the database.

This update relates to data for the 2024/25 Academic Year, which is the most recent available dataset, and applies to Primary, Secondary and Post-16 Phase institutions.

Attainment data not included in the 2024/25 release:

There are Key Stage 2 attainment fields which have not been updated due to their omission from the current (2024/25) and the previous (2023/24) attainment dataset releases. The Department for Education (DfE) states their reason for omission as “KS2 pupils in these years did not have KS1 assessments due to the COVID-19 pandemic”. The fields impacted are as follows:

• ‘Reading Progress Measure’
• ‘Maths Progress Measure’
• ‘Grammar, punctuation and spelling Progress Measure’

For more information regarding the 2024/25 KS2 release, please see the DfE’s website.

There are also Key Stage 4 attainment fields which have been updated with “NA” (Not Applicable) due to limitations in their source data for the current (2024/25) and the next (2025/26) attainment dataset releases. The DfE states the reasoning for this limited data as “there is no KS2 prior attainment data available to use to calculate Progress 8 when the relevant cohorts reach the end of KS4 as primary tests and assessments were cancelled in academic years 2019/20 and 2020/21 due to COVID-19 disruption”. The fields impacted are as follows:

• ‘Average Progress 8 Score per Pupil’
• ‘Average Progress 8 Score per Pupil Boys’
• ‘Average Progress 8 Score per Pupil Girls’
• ‘Average Progress 8 Score per Pupil Disadvantaged’

For more information regarding the 2024/25 KS4 release, please see the DfE’s website.