Key Stage 2 2022: How things have changed for schools and regions
Attainment in maths fell between 2019 and 2022. There are suggestions from data collected so far that some regions have been slightly more affected than others.
Report – pupil absence in Autumn 2020
Analysis of absence in the Autumn term 2020/21 with a particular focus on children in need. Produced in support of Reconnect London, a partnership of schools in London which is seeking to tackle the effects of COVID disruption on vulnerable pupils. Report - Mainstream schools (pdf) Addendum - Special schools and AP (pdf) Appendix (xlsx)
Flows of pupils into and out of state schools before and during the pandemic
The school roll in London is falling. But it's not just because pupils are leaving.
New attendance figures paint a worrying picture of mass absences
Barely half of secondary pupils were at school in some parts of the country last week
It’s grim up north (yet again)
Are schools in the north and the Midlands failing their pupils as is claimed?
Secondary school league tables 2019: Four things we’ve learnt
Covering EBacc entry rates, P8 scores and free schools
If London were a country, how would it do in PISA?
Not as well as you’d expect, it turns out
The 2019 Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index
What do IDACI and free school meal eligibility say about deprivation at regional level?
Looking at the London effect five years on: part two
Updating research into the high performance of pupils in the capital