This statistical first release provides revised 2016 key stage 2 national curriculum assessment results for pupils in schools in England at national, regional and local authority level.

It also provides:

• figures on the new measures of pupil progress between key stage 1 (typically age 7) and key stage 2 (typically age 11)
• a summary of the school-level results provided in the performance tables
• breakdowns by pupil characteristics

This statistical first release (SFR) provides revised key stage 2 national curriculum assessment results for pupils in schools in England at national and local authority level for the academic year 2011 to 2012.

Information on attainment is also broken down by different pupil characteristics, specifically:

• gender
• ethnicity
• first language
• free school meal eligibility
• disadvantage
• special educational need
• 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 and key stage 2, and updated data relating to impact indicator 3.7, the attainment gap at age 11 between pupils eligible for free school meals and the rest.

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 combine this revised data with the information gathered through the school census in January 2012.

Figures in this SFR update provisional figures released in September in SFR 19/2012.

The key points from this release are:

• The percentage of pupils achieving the expected level, level 4 or above, in the 2012 key stage 2 reading and mathematics tests in all schools increased between 2011 and 2012.
• This has led to an increase in the percentage of pupils in state-funded schools making expected progress in mathematics.
• High-performing groups were Chinese pupils, pupils not known to be eligible for free school meals and pupils with no identified special educational needs.

In the academic year 2011 to 2012, due to local area free school meal initiatives, there has been both an under and an over recording of free school meal eligibility in some local authorities. The impact on National figures as a result of these mis-recordings is considered negligible. 2012 figures will be corrected in the December 2013 KS2 release.

School level data is available in the http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/" class="govuk-link">primary school performance tables.

attainment.statistics@education.gsi.gov.uk

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