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Detailed exam results and analysis for virtually all English* schools
The following steps outline how to find the exam files for schools of interest.
Step 1
They are located on each school page. Use school name search found on the top menu bar. In the example that follows we used Beatrix Potter, a London Primary School featured in The Good Schools Guide. You have to be a subscriber to view the exam files. (you may find you get more than one school - click the link of the school you want, to open that school's page.
Step 2
When you land on the school's page you will see a link to Exam Results Analysis (towards the bottom of this screen-shot) - just below all the general school information.
Click on this link.
Step 3
 Not only should you see dials highlighting some of the indicators we use to show how well a school is doing but, on the bar above KS2 indicators, you will see 'Exam result analysis'. (you may need to scroll-up slightly).
To the right of this are the words 'In depth downloadable pdf's for KS2'
KS2 is a clickable link - click this to open the pdf file. (If you want to analyse results yourself you can click 'Use data analysis to compare schools').
Step 4
Clicking on KS2 opens up the exam pdf file - you should see:
This is the introductory page of the Exam File PDF - you will see on the RHS of the screen-shot some of the pages that follow.
Scroll down - below is an illustration of page 9 of the PDF for this school.
The page above shows the spread of Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2 value added scores for each Key Stage 1 quartile.
For each set of bars you will see how many children in each of 4 ability bands get top value-added, above average value-added, below average value-added and poor value-added. The national average for each is 25%. Ideally the first two bars in each colour (blue, red, green, yellow) should be high and the second two low, or none-existent.
Is your child clever - a top KS1 performer?
If your child is a top performer look at the blue bars. Now look at the first two LHS blue bars (these are the top two value added quartiles). The first bar shows 38% this is very good indeed - the national average is 25%. There is no 4th blue bar meaning no clever child does badly.
Is your child above average but not as clever as some?
Look at the red bars - again the first two red bars show above average value-added so this school does well for them. There is no 4th red bar, so no above average children performs badly - excellent.
Is your child just below average?
If so look at the green bars. The percentage who get the highest value-added at this school is 45%, which is just as good for those below average as above (and better than the national average which is 25%) but far more do less well - so this school, although good, is better for children who are above average rather than below. 9% of children in this group do badly - not bad when looking at schools in general (where the figure is 25%) but not as good as it is for those of above average ability at this school.
Does your child struggle?
If your child is one of the least able academically, look at the yellow bars. (Do NOT assume a child with special needs will be in this group - children with special needs fall into all ability groups. The exam file does detail SEN performance separately). Almost half-the children in this group (47%) do very well indeed at this school - in fact this group has the highest of any in the top value-added group at this school. A total of 65% fall into the top 2 categories for value-added compared with a national average of 50%. A mere 6% fall into the bottom value-added category which is very good when compared with the national average of 25% but not as good as the most able groups at this school, where no child falls into this category.
Overall conclusion - regardless of ability children do very well here and achieve good value-added. The school isn't perfect and one or two especially the least able do do badly but these are penny numbers when compared to national figures and there may well be good, individual reasons for this that a school could easily explain.
Sample Exam Files
There are sample files for KS2, GCSE and A-level. See the following pages:
Key stage 2 exams analysis PDF files
GCSE exams analysis PDF files
A level exams analysis PDF files
*We have data for all English schools that publish results at KS2, GCSE and A-level. We have analysed these results and presented them in a number of formats. PDFs are typically between 16 and 60 pages in length depending on type of school and number of examinations.
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