explains how secondary accountability measures are calculated
gives more information about announced policies that apply to accountability measures for the 2023 to 2024 academic year
The information is for:
senior leaders working in secondary schools and trusts, including maintained schools, academies, alternative provision, free schools and special schools
independent schools or colleges with 14 to 16 provision seeking information on secondary accountability measures
governors and trustees
local authorities
It applies to:
local-authority-maintained schools
academies
free schools
further education colleges with 14 to 16 provision
Published 6 March 2014 Last updated 5 December 2024 +show all updates
Updated 'Secondary accountability measures: 2024 guidance for maintained secondary schools, academies and free schools' with information about KS4 performance measures for 2023 to 2024. Entries into triple sciences (the percentage of pupils entered for biology, chemistry and physics) and entries into languages (the percentage of pupils entered for an EBacc language) will remain as additional measures. Also updated to include the 2023 to 2024 provisional KS4 data, including how the KS4 data will be used. We have added clarification on the use of P scale teacher assessments for 2017, 2018, and 2019 to the Pupils working below the level of the test section.
Updated 'Secondary accountability measures: 2023 guidance for maintained secondary schools, academies and free schools' to confirm the approach to KS4 school performance measures for 2025 and 2026.
Updated secondary accountability measures guidance for 2023.
Updated secondary accountability measures guidance for 2023.
Updated 'Secondary accountability measures: 2022 guidance', to provide information about key stage 4 performance measures for 2023 to 2024 and plans for the headline EBacc attainment measure.
Updated 'Secondary accountability measures: 2022 guidance' to include information about how 2022 to 2023 performance measures will be presented. The update clarifies how English GCSEs count in Progress 8/Attainment 8 and the EBacc measures. There is also an update to table 13 from provisional to revised figures.
Added 'Table 37: Revised 2022 Average EBacc and open slots filled for each KS2 prior attainment group' to page 72 of the document.
Updated 'Secondary accountability measures: 2022 guidance' to reflect revised data.
In the guide on accountability measures, we have amended table 32 with provisional 2022 Attainment 8 averages. We have updated table 2 with an additional key stage 2 code. We have added the average EBacc and open slots filled by prior attainment group to table 33.
Updated guidance for 2022.
We have updated 'Secondary accountability measures: update for 2021 to 2022 performance measures'.
Amended the EBacc average point score for GCSE history in table 1 of 'Secondary accountability measures: update for 2021 to 2022 performance measures'.
Added an updated version of 'Secondary accountability measures: update for 2021 to 2022 performance measures'.
Added guidance which explains how we will calculate secondary performance measures for the 2021 to 2022 academic year.
Updated with more information about announced policies that apply to accountability measures in 2019 and 2020. Also updated 'Progress scores for key stage 4: school and college performance tables' to include 2019 figures.
