This publication provides national level statistics for attainment in key stage 2 national curriculum assessments (commonly known as SATs) for pupils in schools in England.

It includes national level results from the following key stage 2 assessments:

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

The data on explore education statistics provides provisional attainment statistics for the key stage 2 national curriculum assessments. It includes results for pupils in schools in England by:

• national, regional and local authority level
• pupil characteristics such as:
  • gender
  • disadvantage
  • special educational needs
• school characteristics such as:
  • school type
  • phase
  • religious character

The tables show:

• results from the key stage 2 tests in reading, mathematics, grammar, punctuation and spelling
• key stage 2 teacher assessments in English, reading, writing, mathematics and science
• key stage 1 to key stage 2 pupil progress measures in reading, writing and mathematics

Additional school-level data includes:

• information on the expenditure of each local authority maintained school open for the full 2013 to 2014 financial year
• the number of teachers, teaching assistants and other school staff
• the pupil to teacher ratio
• the mean gross salary of full-time teachers
• pupil characteristics
• pupil absences
• Ofsted ratings

Contact details

Reference ID: SFR31/2011

Publication type: Statistical first release

Publication data: Local authority data

Local authority data: LA data

Region: England

Release date: 15 December 2011

Coverage status: Final

Publication status: Published

This statistical first release (SFR) provides revised 2011 key stage 2 national curriculum assessment results for pupils (typically aged 11) in schools in England at national and local authority level.

Information on attainment has also been broken down by different pupil characteristics:

• gender
• ethnicity
• English as a first language
• free school meal eligibility
• special educational needs
• income deprivation affecting children index

This SFR also provides the updated percentage of pupils making expected progress in each of English and mathematics between key stage 1 (KS1) (typically age 7) and key stage 2 (KS2).

Two former SFRs, ‘National curriculum assessments at key stage 2’ and ‘Key stage 2 attainment by pupil characteristics” have been combined to produce this SFR, enabling a more comprehensive and coherent evaluation of pupils’ achievements at key stage 2 to be presented.

The revised figures are based on data used in the primary school (key stage 2) performance tables. The figures contained within this publication combine this revised data with the information gathered through the school census in January 2011. Figures in this SFR update provisional figures released in August in SFR18/2011. This SFR also provides the academic year 2010 to 2011 update to the characteristics SFR35/2010.

National curriculum tests are a measurement of achievement against the precise attainment targets of the national curriculum rather than any generalised concept of ability in any of the subject areas. The national curriculum standards have been designed so that most pupils will progress by approximately one level every two years. This means that by the end of key stage 2 (age 11), pupils are expected to achieve level 4.

All gaps and differences have been calculated on unrounded data therefore some figures may not add up in the following text.

All schools

The percentages of pupils achieving the expected level, level 4 or above, in the 2011 key stage 2 tests by subject are as follows:

• English 82% (up 2 percentage points from 80% in 2010)
• reading 84% (up 1 percentage point from 83% in 2010)
• writing 75% (up 4 percentage points from 71% in 2010)
• mathematics 80% (up 1 percentage point from 79% in 2010)
• both English and mathematics 74% (up 1 percentage point from 73% in 2010).

The percentages of pupils achieving above the expected level, level 5 or above, in the 2011 key stage 2 tests by subject are as follows:

• English 29% (down 3 percentage points from 33% in 2010)
• reading 43% (down 8 percentage points from 50% in 2010)
• writing 20% (down 1 percentage point from 21% in 2010)
• mathematics 35% (up 1 percentage point from 34% in 2010).

The percentages of pupils achieving level 4 or above in the 2011 key stage 2 teacher assessments by subject are as follows:

• English 81% (no change from 2010)
• mathematics 82% (no change from 2010)
• science 85% (no change from 2010).

Maintained mainstream schools

Pupils are expected to make two levels of progress between key stage 1 and key stage 2. The national percentages of pupils making the expected progress by subject are as follows:

• English 85%
• mathematics 83%.

The median average percentage of pupils making two levels of progress of all maintained mainstream schools is used as part of the current KS2 floor standard. This school level median by subject is as follows:

• English 87%
• mathematics 86%.

Maintained schools: pupil characteristics

A higher percentage of pupils of Chinese, Indian, Irish and mixed white and Asian origin reached the expected level in both English and mathematics than their peers.

70% of pupils for whom English is not their first language achieved the expected level in both English and mathematics. For pupils whose first language is English, the percentage was 75%.

58% of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals (FSM) achieved the expected level in both English and mathematics compared with 78% of all other pupils (pupils known not to be eligible for FSM and pupils with unknown eligibility grouped together).

The percentage of pupils with special educational needs (SEN) without a statement who reached t

This statistical first release (SFR) provides revised 2013 key stage 2 national curriculum assessment results for pupils in schools in England at national, regional and local authority level. Information on attainment will also be broken down by pupil characteristics, specifically gender, ethnicity, first language, free school meal eligibility, disadvantage, special educational need (SEN) and Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index.

It includes results from the key stage 2 tests in reading, mathematics and grammar, punctuation and spelling and on key stage 2 teacher assessments in English, mathematics, science, reading and writing. It also includes figures on expected progress between key stage 1 and key stage 2.

The revised figures are based on data checked by schools prior to publication in the primary school performance tables. The figures contained within this publication will combine this revised data with the information gathered through the school census in January 2013. Figures in this SFR will update provisional figures released in September in SFR 34/2013.

The key points are:

• 75% of pupils achieved level 4 or above in all of reading, writing and mathematics, the same figure as in 2012

• 21% of pupils achieved level 5 or above in all of reading, writing and mathematics compared to 20% in 2012

• 63% of pupils achieved a ‘good’ level 4 or above in both reading and mathematics and also got level 4 or above in the writing teacher assessment

• the percentage of pupils achieving level 4 or above in the new grammar, punctuation and spelling test was 74% - the percentage achieving level 5 or above was 48%

• the percentage of pupils in state-funded schools making expected progress has increased by 1 percentage point to 92% in writing and to 88% in mathematics - however, the percentage making expected progress in reading decreased by 1 percentage point to 88%

• 767 schools are below the primary school floor target - this represents 6% of state-funded mainstream schools included in the floor calculations - it is a fall from 834 in 2012 (using 2013 definition)

• girls outperform boys in reading and grammar, punctuation and spelling - 88% of girls achieved level 4 or above in the reading test compared to 83% of boys and 79% of girls achieved level 4 or above in the grammar, punctuation and spelling test compared to 69% of boys - 85% of both boys and girls achieved level 4 or above in the mathematics test

• Chinese pupils are still outperforming other pupils with 85% achieving level 4 or above in reading, writing and mathematics - the gap between Chinese pupils and the national average has fallen by 4 percentage points since 2011

• 60% of pupils known to be eligible for FSM achieved the expected level in all of reading, writing and mathematics compared with 79% of all other pupils, a gap of 19 percentage points.

Contact details

Queries should be directed to:

Jayne Middlemas

Email: attainment.statistics@education.gov.uk

Telephone: 0114 2742117

The 2018 tables show:

• results from the key stage 2 tests in:
  • reading
  • grammar, punctuation and spelling
  • mathematics
• key stage 2 teacher assessments in:
  • reading
  • writing
  • mathematics
  • science
• key stage 1 to 2 pupil progress measures in:
  • reading
  • writing
  • mathematics

For the first time since the new assessments were introduced, schools also have their results presented as a 3-year average.

Additional school-level data includes:

• information on the expenditure of each local-authority-maintained school open for the full 2017 to 2018 financial year
• the numbers of teachers, teaching assistants and other school staff
• the pupil to teacher ratio
• average salary of full-time teachers
• pupil characteristics
• pupil absences
• Ofsted ratings

Reference Id: SFR34/2012

Publication type: Performance tables

Publication data: Local authority data

Region: England

Release date: 13 December 2012

Coverage status: Final/provisional

Publication status: Published

The primary school performance tables show:

1. results from the key stage 2 (KS2) tests in reading and mathematics
2. KS2 teacher assessments in English, reading, writing, mathematics and science; and
3. KS1 to 2 progress measures in English and mathematics.
4. key measures for sub-groups of pupils in each school, including disadvantaged pupils, low-, middle- and high-attaining pupils, boys, girls, pupils with English as an additional language and pupils who have been in the school throughout the whole of years 5 and 6 (non-mobile pupils). Additional school-level data is also available, including: * information on the expenditure of each maintained school open for the full financial year 2011 to 2012. The expenditure data takes the form of spend per pupil for a wide range of expenditure categories including funding and income, education staff spend and learning resources and curriculum spend * the numbers of teachers, teaching assistants and other school staff. It also provides the pupil-teacher ratio and the mean gross salary of full-time teachers; * information on the characteristics of the pupils attending the school; * pupil absence data for each school.

The data can be viewed and downloaded from the http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/index.html">school performance tables section.

Data at national and local authority level of key stage 2 national curriculum assessments from 2011 is also available .

jayne.middlemas@education.gsi.gov.uk