Guidance

Primary school progress measures: information for schools and parents

Information about primary school progress measures.

• From: Standards and Testing Agency
• Published: 1 March 2017
• Last updated: 18 April 2024 — See all updates

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Primary school progress measures: information for schools and parents

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78644-388-5, STA/17/7916/e

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Details

This leaflet is for parents with children in primary school. Schools may want to share it with parents.

It sets out how results from the key stage 1 (KS1) and key stage 2 (KS2) national curriculum assessments are used to calculate primary school progress measures. It also explains what these progress measures mean.

The reception baseline assessment (RBA) will replace the end of KS1 assessments as the baseline for cohort-level primary progress measures when the first cohort of pupils with a statutory RBA reaches the end of KS2 in 2028.

The Department for Education will produce progress measures using KS1 assessment data in the academic years 2025 to 2026 and 2026 to 2027. From the academic year 2027 to 2028 onwards, the RBA will be used as the baseline for primary progress measures.

We will update this guidance closer to the time to reflect these changes.

To find individual schools’ progress scores in England, you can search the compare school performance service.

Published 1 March 2017

Last updated 18 April 2024 — Show all updates

1. 18 April 2024

   Added information to the details section to explain changes to the reporting of progress measures, which are not covered in the leaflet.

2. 1 March 2017

   First published.