To back up this point, I first plot Progress 8 scores for 2024 by the percentage of disadvantaged Year 11 pupils in each school.
Now let’s look at the same chart for Attainment 8, the headline measure on which Progress 8 is based and which will still be published next year (as far as we know at the moment). To aid comparison with Progress 8 I have put Attainment 8 scores on the same scale as Progress 8 by centring schools’ scores around the national average (47.2) and then dividing by 10[1].
the relationship between disadvantage cambodia rcs data and outcomes is far stronger for A8 than for P8. Put another way, the least disadvantaged schools will be even more likely to be ranked highly based on A8 compared to P8.
Far more 16-year-olds achieve the basics now than in the past
In the table at the top of the post we saw that 65% of pupils achieved grades 9-4 in English and maths, commonly shortened to “the basics”.
This means that 35% of pupils did not achieve this threshold and so will have to continue studying post-16 whichever subject(s) they do not have at least grade 4 in. We looked at this group in a bit more detail in an earlier post.