We’ll be looking at Attainment 8, as well as the proportion of pupils achieving a standard pass (9-4) or a strong pass (9-5) in both English and maths GCSE.
Data
Before getting into what we’ve found, we’ll austria rcs data start by sounding a characteristic note of caution. These figures are based on analysis of data from 340,000 pupils from 1,800 state-funded schools that have submitted data to the Early Results Service. This is well over half the cohort.
a representative sample, so national results, when they come out, may not quite match up to what we see here. But we have found in the past that our analysis of samples from results service data do tend to align fairly closely with the national picture. We also compare to last year’s results for the same set of schools to get an early handle on whether anything has changed.
To get a sense of whether our sample does align with the national picture, let’s take a quick look at how overall attainment for our sample compares to last year.
Overall attainment is similar to last year. The proportion of pupils achieving a standard pass in English and maths is down slightly, as is Attainment 8, but the proportion of pupils achieving higher grades, i.e. a strong pass in the basics is up slightly. This fits with what the national figures show.