Now let’s take a look at how attainment at GCSE varies by pupil characteristics. Firstly, we look at the whole cohort of 604,000 pupils.
82% of Autumn born girls who were not brazil rcs data disadvantaged achieved grade 4 or above in English language. This compares to 39% of disadvantaged summer born boys.
When we last did this analysis, these figures were 84% and 39% respectively.
As most of our analysis relates to pupils who we track from Key Stage 1, we repeat the table removing any pupils without KS1 results. The results are largely similar.
By the end of Key Stage 1, 81% of these pupils had achieved a score of 5 in literacy. This figure varied from 93% for Autumn born girls who were not disadvantaged to 56% for disadvantaged summer born boys.
The appendix table shows the percentage of pupils in each of the 12 groups shown in the table above who achieved the key benchmarks at the end of each Key Stage.
Key Stage 1 attainment in 2023
The cohort of pupils which were assessed at the end of Key Stage 1 (end of Year 2) in 2023 were assessed using the reformed national curriculum assessments.
They would have had their Nursery and Reception years disrupted by Covid-19.
Both of these factors are relevant when we compare the KS1 attainment of the 2023 KS1 cohort to the 2023 KS4 cohort.