Primary school progress measures: information for schools and parents
Information about primary school progress measures.
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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.
Following the 2017 consultation on primary assessment, the Standards and Testing Agency announced in July 2022 that end of KS1 assessments will no longer be statutory from the academic year 2023 to 2024 onwards. This took effect from 1 September 2023.
The reception baseline assessment (RBA) will replace the end of KS1 assessments as the baseline for cohort level primary progress measures. This will happen when the first cohort of pupils with a statutory RBA reaches the end of KS2 in 2028.
As primary tests and assessments were cancelled in the academic years 2019 to 2020 and 2020 to 2021 due to COVID-19 disruption, there is no relevant KS1 data which is required to calculate primary progress measures for the academic years 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025. Given the lack of a statistically robust alternative baseline to calculate primary progress measures, the Department for Education (DfE) will not be producing or publishing primary progress measures for these years.
DfE intend to 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 website.
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