Reading attainments for children aged 5 to 7 (key stage 1)
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1. Main facts and figures
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in 2015/16, there were 641,593 pupils at the end of year 1, of which ethnicity was known for 634,052 (99%)
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75% were White, 11% were Asian, 6% were Black, 6% were Mixed, 2% were from the Other ethnic group and 0.5% were Chinese
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overall, 74% of pupils met the expected standard and 24% of pupils met the higher standard in reading (making these figures the national averages)
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Indian pupils were most likely to meet the expected standard and Gypsy/Roma pupils pupils were least likely to meet the expected standard
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Mixed White and Asian and Chinese pupils were most likely to meet the higher standard and Gypsy/Roma were least likely to meet the higher standard
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across all ethnic groups, a higher percentage of girls than boys met both the expected and higher standard
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within every ethnic group, pupils not eligible for free school meals (FSM) did better than those who were eligible - except Gypsy/Roma and White Irish Traveller pupils
Things you need to know
The 2016 key stage 1 assessments are the first which assess the new, more challenging national curriculum. The expected standard has also been raised to be higher than the old level 2. As a result, figures for 2016 are not comparable to those for earlier years.
Teacher assessments for year 2 pupils studying the national curriculum are collected and reported by the Department for Education (DfE), but test results for those pupils are not collected.
School level data is not published for key stage 1.
Results for the Isles of Scilly and the City of London, which have only one school each, have been excluded from local authority breakdowns. This is because the very small number of pupils in these local authorities make the results unreliable.
The Department for Education (DfE) has also excluded, or ‘suppressed’, very small numbers (for example, values of 1 or 2, a percentage based on 1 or 2 pupils who achieved, or 0, 1 or 2 pupils who did not achieve a particular standard).
This is because, where the size of the ethnic group population is small enough that an individual’s identity could be revealed, information is suppressed to preserve confidentiality. This is consistent with DfE’s statistical policy statement on confidentiality (PDF opens in a new window or tab).
Pupil numbers for key stage 1 vary between measures of attainment for different subjects. This is because pupils who don't have a valid teacher assessment for a particular subject are excluded from the total. For more about valid teacher assessments, see Methodology.
What the data measures
This data measures the reading attainments of children in key stage 1 (years 1 to 2, when pupils are aged between 5 and 7).
The data covers the academic year 2015/16 (September 2015 to July 2016).
The data was collected from 16,337 state-funded mainstream schools (about 650,000 pupils) in England.
The standards for this measure are divided in 2 categories:
- expected standard
- higher standard
To reach the expected standard, pupils must have been assessed by a teacher as 'working at the expected standard' or 'working at a greater depth within the expected standard' in their reading.
To reach the higher standard, pupils must have have been assessed by a teacher as 'working at a greater depth within the expected standard' in their reading.
The ethnic categories used in this data
This data uses categories from the Department for Education’s school census, which is broadly based on the 2001 national census, with 2 exceptions:
- Traveller of Irish Heritage and Gypsy/Roma children have been separated into 2 categories
- Sri Lankan has been added to the Asian/Asian British group but is not reported separately
- Chinese pupils have been assigned a separate category
These changes were made after consultations with local authorities and lobby groups.
The categories in the school census are as follows:
White:
- White British
- White Irish
- Traveller of Irish Heritage
- Gypsy/Roma
- Other White
Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups:
- White and Black Caribbean
- White and Black African
- White and Asian
- Other Mixed background
Asian/Asian British:
- Indian
- Pakistani
- Bangladeshi
- Sri Lankan
- Other Asian background
Black/African/Caribbean/Black British:
- Black African
- Black Caribbean
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Other Black background
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Chinese
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Other ethnic group
Information is provided for both detailed and broad ethnic groups where possible and when the data is available.
The 6 broad categories used are as follows:
- White
- Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups
- Asian/Asian British
- Black/African/Caribbean/Black British
- Other ethnic group
- Chinese
However, local authority data is only provided for 5 broad ethnic groups. Information about the specific ethnic categories is excluded to preserve confidentiality and ensure individuals cannot be identified. Information about the Other ethnic group is not given because DfE does not publish data for this group at the local authority level.
The 5 broad categories are as follows:
- White
- Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups
- Asian/Asian British
- Black/African/Caribbean/Black British
- Chinese
2. Reading attainments for children aged 5 to 7 by ethnicity
Ethnicity | Expected standard | Higher standard |
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All | 74 | 24 |
Asian | 76 | 23 |
Bangladeshi | 75 | 22 |
Indian | 83 | 31 |
Pakistani | 71 | 17 |
Asian other | 77 | 25 |
Black | 76 | 22 |
Black African | 77 | 23 |
Black Caribbean | 73 | 18 |
Black other | 73 | 20 |
Chinese | 80 | 32 |
Mixed | 76 | 26 |
Mixed White/Asian | 81 | 32 |
Mixed White/Black African | 77 | 25 |
Mixed White/Black Caribbean | 71 | 20 |
Mixed other | 77 | 27 |
White | 74 | 24 |
White British | 75 | 24 |
White Irish | 77 | 30 |
White Irish Traveller | 32 | 4 |
White Gypsy/Roma | 26 | 3 |
White other | 67 | 19 |
Other | 68 | 18 |
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Summary of Reading attainments for children aged 5 to 7 (key stage 1) Reading attainments for children aged 5 to 7 by ethnicity Summary
The data shows that:
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83% of Indian pupils met the expected standard (the highest percentage of any ethnic group)
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26% of pupils from the Gypsy/Roma pupils met the expected standard (a lower percentage than any of the other ethnic groups)
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24% of White British pupils met the higher standard
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32% of pupils from the Chinese and Mixed White and Asian ethnic groups met the higher standard (a higher percentage than any of the other ethnic groups)
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3% of Gypsy/Roma pupils met the higher standard (the lowest percentage of any ethnic group)
3. Reading attainments for children aged 5 to 7 by ethnicity and eligibility for free school meals (FSM)
Ethnicity | FSM | Non-FSM |
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% | % | |
All | 60 | 77 |
Asian | 67 | 77 |
Bangladeshi | 71 | 76 |
Indian | 73 | 83 |
Pakistani | 65 | 72 |
Asian other | 67 | 79 |
Black | 70 | 78 |
Black African | 71 | 79 |
Black Caribbean | 67 | 75 |
Black other | 67 | 75 |
Chinese | 75 | 80 |
Mixed | 65 | 79 |
Mixed White/Asian | 66 | 84 |
Mixed White/Black African | 68 | 80 |
Mixed White/Black Caribbean | 63 | 75 |
Mixed other | 67 | 79 |
White | 56 | 77 |
White British | 57 | 78 |
White Irish | 57 | 81 |
White Irish Traveller | 32 | 32 |
White Gypsy/Roma | 28 | 25 |
White other | 57 | 68 |
Other | 63 | 69 |
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Summary of Reading attainments for children aged 5 to 7 (key stage 1) Reading attainments for children aged 5 to 7 by ethnicity and eligibility for free school meals (FSM) Summary
Eligibility for FSM is used as an indicator of deprivation by the Department for Education. For more about who qualifies for FSM, see Methodology.
The data shows that:
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in 2015/2016 there were 97,397 pupils eligible for free school meals in key stage 1 (15% of all pupils)
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overall, 60% of pupils eligible for FSM met the expected standard, compared to 77% of pupils not eligible for FSM (a gap of 17 percentage points)
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57% of FSM-eligible White British pupils met the expected standard (below the national average for FSM), compared to 78% of White British pupils not eligible (a gap of 21 percentage points)
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FSM-eligible pupils did less well than those not eligible in every ethnic group apart from Gypsy/Roma: here, 28% of FSM-eligible pupils met the expected standard compared to 25% of those not eligible
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for pupils from a Traveller of Irish Heritage background, an equal percentage of FSM eligible and non-eligible pupils (32%) met the expected standard
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75% of FSM-eligible Chinese pupils met the expected standard (the highest percentage of any ethnic group)
4. Reading attainments for children aged 5 to 7 by ethnicity and area
Local Authority | All | Asian | Black | Chinese | Mixed | White |
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% | % | % | % | % | % | |
County Durham | 75 | 89 | 67 | 73 | 77 | 75 |
Darlington | 75 | 71 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 78 | 75 |
Gateshead | 77 | 74 | 77 | 75 | 73 | 77 |
Hartlepool | 73 | 71 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 69 | 73 |
Middlesbrough | 67 | 68 | 84 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 64 | 68 |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 73 | 74 | 73 | 85 | 81 | 74 |
North Tyneside | 76 | 81 | 83 | 60 | 83 | 76 |
Northumberland | 78 | 90 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 69 | 76 | 78 |
Redcar and Cleveland | 77 | 60 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 73 | 77 |
South Tyneside | 78 | 84 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 69 | 79 |
Stockton-on-Tees | 76 | 82 | 83 | 100 | 67 | 76 |
Sunderland | 75 | 72 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 77 | 77 | 76 |
Blackburn with Darwen | 74 | 75 | 74 | 100 | 68 | 75 |
Blackpool | 74 | 65 | 100 | 50 | 84 | 74 |
Bolton | 71 | 75 | 64 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 72 | 72 |
Bury | 72 | 74 | 63 | 100 | 65 | 73 |
Cheshire East | 75 | 73 | 73 | 73 | 78 | 75 |
Cheshire West and Chester | 74 | 74 | 38 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 85 | 74 |
Cumbria | 69 | 81 | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 67 | 69 |
Halton | 67 | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 73 | 67 |
Knowsley | 68 | 91 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | 73 | 67 |
Lancashire | 74 | 73 | 73 | 76 | 73 | 74 |
Liverpool | 64 | 66 | 70 | 67 | 63 | 64 |
Manchester | 70 | 68 | 73 | 82 | 75 | 71 |
Oldham | 67 | 65 | 56 | 76 | 74 | 70 |
Rochdale | 71 | 71 | 68 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 77 | 71 |
Salford | 74 | 77 | 73 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 74 | 76 |
Sefton | 70 | 74 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 70 | 71 |
St. Helens | 68 | 58 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 70 | 68 |
Stockport | 76 | 77 | 75 | 75 | 76 | 76 |
Tameside | 70 | 66 | 75 | 40 | 73 | 71 |
Trafford | 79 | 79 | 85 | 79 | 76 | 79 |
Warrington | 76 | 76 | 81 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 83 | 76 |
Wigan | 74 | 72 | 74 | 75 | 80 | 74 |
Wirral | 71 | 78 | 33 | 57 | 77 | 71 |
Barnsley | 70 | 59 | 83 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 81 | 70 |
Bradford | 70 | 72 | 66 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 70 | 69 |
Calderdale | 66 | 58 | 72 | 57 | 69 | 68 |
Doncaster | 70 | 69 | 71 | 63 | 74 | 70 |
East Riding of Yorkshire | 76 | 88 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | 83 | 75 |
Kingston upon Hull, City of | 72 | 79 | 67 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 80 | 72 |
Kirklees | 71 | 70 | 72 | 63 | 71 | 72 |
Leeds | 65 | 64 | 62 | 66 | 61 | 67 |
North East Lincolnshire | 72 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 76 | 72 |
North Lincolnshire | 78 | 82 | 50 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 75 | 78 |
North Yorkshire | 72 | 79 | 60 | 76 | 72 | 72 |
Rotherham | 71 | 75 | 67 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 71 | 71 |
Sheffield | 71 | 72 | 75 | 82 | 72 | 72 |
Wakefield | 72 | 66 | 72 | 79 | 77 | 72 |
York | 74 | 74 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 57 | 72 | 75 |
Derby | 66 | 72 | 70 | 70 | 69 | 64 |
Derbyshire | 75 | 83 | 74 | 73 | 77 | 74 |
Leicester | 67 | 73 | 70 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 68 | 60 |
Leicestershire | 73 | 80 | 76 | 69 | 77 | 73 |
Lincolnshire | 73 | 88 | 75 | 82 | 77 | 73 |
Northamptonshire | 73 | 78 | 73 | 86 | 72 | 73 |
Nottingham | 66 | 72 | 74 | 76 | 68 | 64 |
Nottinghamshire | 72 | 70 | 69 | 71 | 74 | 72 |
Rutland | 80 | 100 | 57 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 75 | 81 |
Birmingham | 70 | 71 | 71 | 83 | 70 | 69 |
Coventry | 70 | 78 | 72 | 79 | 72 | 67 |
Dudley | 74 | 74 | 85 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 81 | 74 |
Herefordshire, County of | 75 | 70 | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 91 | 75 |
Sandwell | 68 | 74 | 73 | 55 | 69 | 66 |
Shropshire | 73 | 84 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 79 | 73 |
Solihull | 79 | 81 | 76 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 79 | 79 |
Staffordshire | 77 | 80 | 67 | 79 | 80 | 77 |
Stoke-on-Trent | 70 | 71 | 74 | 70 | 74 | 70 |
Telford and Wrekin | 77 | 72 | 84 | 100 | 80 | 77 |
Walsall | 72 | 76 | 81 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 75 | 71 |
Warwickshire | 76 | 82 | 70 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 77 | 76 |
Wolverhampton | 71 | 75 | 79 | 67 | 73 | 68 |
Worcestershire | 73 | 66 | 70 | 67 | 73 | 73 |
Bedford | 72 | 70 | 76 | 100 | 69 | 73 |
Cambridgeshire | 73 | 73 | 71 | 83 | 78 | 73 |
Central Bedfordshire | 77 | 85 | 85 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 75 | 77 |
Essex | 77 | 84 | 80 | 84 | 78 | 77 |
Hertfordshire | 79 | 80 | 79 | 92 | 82 | 79 |
Luton | 70 | 71 | 74 | 58 | 78 | 69 |
Norfolk | 75 | 83 | 76 | 83 | 77 | 75 |
Peterborough | 68 | 69 | 76 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 73 | 68 |
Southend-on-Sea | 77 | 80 | 77 | 71 | 72 | 77 |
Suffolk | 72 | 80 | 75 | 100 | 74 | 72 |
Thurrock | 76 | 81 | 84 | 80 | 80 | 74 |
Camden | 75 | 72 | 73 | 65 | 76 | 78 |
City of London | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality |
Hackney | 81 | 85 | 80 | 83 | 87 | 81 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | 78 | 84 | 75 | 100 | 76 | 81 |
Haringey | 78 | 83 | 79 | 90 | 82 | 76 |
Islington | 75 | 73 | 71 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 81 | 77 |
Kensington and Chelsea | 81 | 86 | 81 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 81 | 85 |
Lambeth | 78 | 78 | 77 | 83 | 82 | 78 |
Lewisham | 79 | 79 | 77 | 76 | 83 | 79 |
Newham | 79 | 83 | 81 | 81 | 86 | 70 |
Southwark | 77 | 82 | 77 | 78 | 76 | 78 |
Tower Hamlets | 76 | 76 | 78 | 88 | 80 | 72 |
Wandsworth | 81 | 82 | 75 | 84 | 78 | 85 |
Westminster | 77 | 79 | 81 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 83 | 81 |
Barking and Dagenham | 75 | 80 | 81 | 81 | 78 | 69 |
Barnet | 77 | 82 | 75 | 84 | 76 | 78 |
Bexley | 81 | 91 | 89 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 82 | 78 |
Brent | 75 | 79 | 74 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 83 | 73 |
Bromley | 80 | 90 | 86 | 89 | 82 | 79 |
Croydon | 76 | 84 | 75 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 76 | 75 |
Ealing | 72 | 72 | 68 | 100 | 78 | 75 |
Enfield | 73 | 85 | 73 | 77 | 79 | 70 |
Greenwich | 81 | 89 | 85 | 83 | 80 | 76 |
Harrow | 77 | 84 | 75 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 79 | 68 |
Havering | 77 | 82 | 82 | 79 | 82 | 76 |
Hillingdon | 75 | 80 | 75 | 63 | 76 | 72 |
Hounslow | 79 | 85 | 78 | 85 | 84 | 75 |
Kingston upon Thames | 76 | 78 | 69 | 86 | 75 | 75 |
Merton | 74 | 77 | 77 | 83 | 70 | 74 |
Redbridge | 77 | 83 | 72 | 82 | 79 | 72 |
Richmond upon Thames | 79 | 78 | 73 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 82 | 79 |
Sutton | 78 | 86 | 77 | 91 | 82 | 75 |
Waltham Forest | 79 | 81 | 80 | 82 | 84 | 77 |
Bracknell Forest | 77 | 94 | 76 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 86 | 75 |
Brighton and Hove | 75 | 76 | 69 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 77 | 75 |
Buckinghamshire | 77 | 72 | 80 | 76 | 78 | 78 |
East Sussex | 76 | 81 | 81 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 75 | 76 |
Hampshire | 80 | 82 | 84 | 81 | 82 | 80 |
Isle of Wight | 75 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 77 | 75 |
Kent | 78 | 83 | 82 | 78 | 83 | 78 |
Medway | 75 | 81 | 87 | 100 | 80 | 74 |
Milton Keynes | 75 | 80 | 79 | 85 | 80 | 74 |
Oxfordshire | 74 | 70 | 77 | 85 | 76 | 74 |
Portsmouth | 73 | 71 | 72 | 100 | 71 | 73 |
Reading | 74 | 77 | 77 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 73 | 74 |
Slough | 76 | 83 | 77 | 100 | 78 | 67 |
Southampton | 75 | 80 | 76 | 85 | 79 | 74 |
Surrey | 78 | 82 | 83 | 88 | 81 | 78 |
West Berkshire | 75 | 84 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | 86 | 74 |
West Sussex | 69 | 75 | 61 | 81 | 74 | 69 |
Windsor and Maidenhead | 80 | 78 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 78 | 81 |
Wokingham | 80 | 86 | 83 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 84 | 79 |
Bath and North East Somerset | 74 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 71 | 74 |
Bournemouth | 72 | 68 | 84 | 71 | 76 | 73 |
Bristol, City of | 71 | 68 | 64 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 68 | 74 |
Cornwall | 74 | 85 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 77 | 74 |
Devon | 73 | 77 | 57 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 73 | 73 |
Dorset | 72 | 74 | 70 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 79 | 73 |
Gloucestershire | 73 | 74 | 67 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 71 | 73 |
Isles of Scilly | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality |
North Somerset | 77 | 90 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 74 | 77 |
Plymouth | 71 | 84 | 86 | 64 | 74 | 71 |
Poole | 77 | 79 | 62 | 100 | 82 | 77 |
Somerset | 75 | 80 | 57 | 75 | 75 | 75 |
South Gloucestershire | 78 | 79 | 76 | 84 | 78 | 78 |
Swindon | 71 | 75 | 73 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 75 | 71 |
Torbay | 73 | 82 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 73 | 73 |
Wiltshire | 73 | 79 | 78 | 79 | 79 | 73 |
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Summary of Reading attainments for children aged 5 to 7 (key stage 1) Reading attainments for children aged 5 to 7 by ethnicity and area Summary
The data shows that:
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Asian pupils were most likely to meet the expected standard in Rutland in the East Midlands and Halton in the North West; they were least likely to meet it in St. Helens in the North West, and Calderdale in Yorkshire and the Humber
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Black pupils were most likely to meet the expected standard in Blackpool and Cumbria in the North West, and Herefordshire in the West Midlands; they were least likely to meet it in Wirral in the North West
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100% of Chinese pupils met the expected standard in 15 local authorities; Chinese pupils were least likely to meet the expected standard in Tameside in the North West
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Mixed pupils were most likely to meet the expected standard in Herefordshire in the West Midlands; they were least likely to meet it in Leeds in Yorkshire and the Humber
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White pupils were most likely to meet the expected standard in Kensington and Chelsea and Wandsworth in London; they were least likely to meet it Leicester in the East Midlands
5. Reading attainments for children aged 5 to 7 by ethnicity and gender
Boys | Girls | |||
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Ethnicity | Boys Expected standard | Boys Higher standard | Girls Expected standard | Girls Higher standard |
All | 70 | 20 | 78 | 27 |
Asian | 72 | 19 | 80 | 26 |
Bangladeshi | 71 | 19 | 79 | 25 |
Indian | 79 | 27 | 86 | 36 |
Pakistani | 67 | 14 | 75 | 20 |
Asian other | 73 | 22 | 82 | 29 |
Black | 71 | 18 | 81 | 26 |
Black African | 73 | 20 | 82 | 27 |
Black Caribbean | 68 | 15 | 78 | 21 |
Black other | 68 | 17 | 78 | 24 |
Chinese | 77 | 29 | 83 | 36 |
Mixed | 72 | 23 | 81 | 30 |
Mixed White/Asian | 77 | 28 | 85 | 36 |
Mixed White/Black African | 73 | 22 | 80 | 28 |
Mixed White/Black Caribbean | 66 | 16 | 76 | 23 |
Mixed other | 72 | 24 | 82 | 31 |
White | 70 | 20 | 78 | 27 |
White British | 70 | 21 | 79 | 28 |
White Irish | 72 | 26 | 82 | 35 |
White Irish Traveller | 27 | 6 | 37 | 3 |
White Gypsy/Roma | 21 | 2 | 30 | 4 |
White other | 64 | 17 | 71 | 21 |
Other | 64 | 15 | 72 | 20 |
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Summary of Reading attainments for children aged 5 to 7 (key stage 1) Reading attainments for children aged 5 to 7 by ethnicity and gender Summary
The data shows that:
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overall, girls did better than boys; 78% met the expected standard, compared to 70% of boys, and 27% met the higher standard, compared to 20% of boys
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girls did better than boys within every ethnic group except for pupils from a Traveller of Irish Heritage background; here, 6% of boys met the higher standard, compared to 3% of girls
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Indian girls were most likely to reach the expected standard, and Indian, Mixed White and Asian, and Chinese girls were most likely to reach the higher standard
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79% of White British girls met the expected standard, compared to 70% of White British boys, and 28% of White British girls met the higher standard, compared to 21% of boys
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Gypsy/Roma boys were least likely to reach both the expected and the higher standard
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for the expected standard, the smallest attainment gap between girls and boys, at 6 percentage points, was found among Chinese pupils, where 83% of girls met the expected standard, compared to 77% of boys
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for the higher standard, the smallest attainment gap, at 2 percentage points, was found among Gypsy/Roma pupils, where 2% of boys met the higher standard, compared to 4% of girls
6. Reading attainment for children aged 5 to 7 by ethnicity, gender, and eligibility for free school meals (FSM)
Ethnicity | FSM Boys | FSM Girls | Non-FSM Boys | Non-FSM Girls |
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% | % | % | % | |
All | 54 | 65 | 73 | 81 |
Asian | 63 | 72 | 73 | 81 |
Bangladeshi | 66 | 75 | 72 | 80 |
Indian | 70 | 77 | 80 | 87 |
Pakistani | 60 | 70 | 68 | 76 |
Asian other | 63 | 72 | 74 | 83 |
Black | 64 | 76 | 74 | 82 |
Black African | 66 | 77 | 75 | 84 |
Black Caribbean | 59 | 74 | 72 | 79 |
Black other | 61 | 73 | 71 | 80 |
Chinese | 72 | 79 | 78 | 83 |
Mixed | 59 | 71 | 76 | 83 |
Mixed White/Asian | 60 | 72 | 80 | 87 |
Mixed White/Black African | 62 | 73 | 77 | 83 |
Mixed White/Black Caribbean | 56 | 70 | 71 | 79 |
Mixed other | 61 | 72 | 75 | 84 |
White | 51 | 62 | 73 | 81 |
White British | 52 | 63 | 74 | 82 |
White Irish | 52 | 63 | 76 | 86 |
White Irish Traveller | 28 | 35 | 25 | 41 |
White Gypsy/Roma | 20 | 35 | 22 | 28 |
White other | 53 | 61 | 65 | 71 |
Other | 57 | 69 | 66 | 73 |
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Summary of Reading attainments for children aged 5 to 7 (key stage 1) Reading attainment for children aged 5 to 7 by ethnicity, gender, and eligibility for free school meals (FSM) Summary
Eligibility for FSM is used as an indicator of deprivation by the Department for Education. For more about who qualifies for FSM, see Methodology.
The data shows that:
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in 2015/2016 there were 97,397 pupils eligible for free school meals in key stage 1 (15% of all pupils)
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20% of FSM-eligible Gypsy/Roma boys met the expected standard (the lowest percentage of any group of FSM-eligible children)
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79% of FSM-eligible Chinese girls met the expected standard (the highest percentage of any group of FSM-eligible children)
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across all ethnic groups, FSM-eligible girls did better than FSM-eligible boys
7. Reading attainment for children aged 5 to 7 by ethnicity, gender and area
All | Asian | Black | Chinese | Mixed | White | |||||||
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Local authority | All Boys | All Girls | Asian Boys | Asian Girls | Black Boys | Black Girls | Chinese Boys | Chinese Girls | Mixed Boys | Mixed Girls | White Boys | White Girls |
Barking and Dagenham | 71 | 79 | 77 | 83 | 77 | 86 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 71 | 84 | 66 | 72 |
Barnet | 74 | 80 | 79 | 85 | 70 | 80 | 76 | 90 | 74 | 79 | 76 | 80 |
Barnsley | 65 | 76 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 83 | 79 | 65 | 76 |
Bath and North East Somerset | 70 | 78 | 77 | 69 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 67 | 76 | 71 | 78 |
Bedford | 68 | 76 | 64 | 77 | 66 | 84 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | 63 | 75 | 70 | 75 |
Bexley | 79 | 83 | 88 | 93 | 89 | 89 | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 79 | 86 | 75 | 81 |
Birmingham | 65 | 74 | 67 | 76 | 67 | 75 | 75 | 92 | 64 | 77 | 64 | 74 |
Blackburn with Darwen | 70 | 79 | 69 | 81 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 65 | 71 | 72 | 79 |
Blackpool | 70 | 78 | 64 | 65 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 70 | 78 |
Bolton | 67 | 76 | 72 | 79 | 62 | 65 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 69 | 75 | 67 | 77 |
Bournemouth | 70 | 75 | 65 | 73 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 70 | 81 | 70 | 75 |
Bracknell Forest | 74 | 80 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 74 | 77 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | 87 | 86 | 72 | 79 |
Bradford | 65 | 74 | 67 | 76 | 54 | 76 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 64 | 77 | 65 | 73 |
Brent | 72 | 77 | 77 | 81 | 72 | 77 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 78 | 87 | 72 | 74 |
Brighton and Hove | 71 | 78 | 79 | 73 | 60 | 79 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 76 | 77 | 72 | 79 |
Bristol, City of | 67 | 76 | 65 | 71 | 58 | 70 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | 64 | 72 | 69 | 78 |
Bromley | 76 | 84 | 88 | 92 | 81 | 91 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 77 | 88 | 75 | 82 |
Buckinghamshire | 73 | 80 | 70 | 74 | 76 | 84 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 76 | 81 | 74 | 81 |
Bury | 68 | 77 | 72 | 76 | 60 | 67 | 100 | 100 | 45 | 81 | 68 | 78 |
Calderdale | 62 | 71 | 53 | 64 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 61 | 78 | 63 | 73 |
Cambridgeshire | 69 | 77 | 71 | 75 | 69 | 74 | 85 | 80 | 71 | 85 | 69 | 77 |
Camden | 71 | 79 | 66 | 78 | 69 | 77 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 75 | 76 | 75 | 81 |
Central Bedfordshire | 73 | 81 | 77 | 93 | 82 | 89 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 68 | 80 | 73 | 81 |
Cheshire East | 70 | 80 | 79 | 65 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 76 | 80 | 70 | 80 |
Cheshire West and Chester | 70 | 78 | 63 | 87 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | 80 | 91 | 70 | 78 |
City of London | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality |
Cornwall | 69 | 78 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 73 | 83 | 69 | 78 |
County Durham | 71 | 80 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 60 | 100 | 73 | 82 | 71 | 80 |
Coventry | 65 | 74 | 72 | 83 | 65 | 79 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 65 | 77 | 64 | 70 |
Croydon | 73 | 80 | 79 | 90 | 70 | 78 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | 71 | 81 | 72 | 77 |
Cumbria | 64 | 75 | 80 | 81 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 52 | 81 | 65 | 75 |
Darlington | 71 | 79 | 65 | 76 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 71 | 79 |
Derby | 61 | 70 | 69 | 76 | 62 | 79 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 61 | 77 | 60 | 68 |
Derbyshire | 70 | 79 | 83 | 83 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 70 | 86 | 70 | 79 |
Devon | 67 | 78 | 74 | 81 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 75 | 71 | 67 | 79 |
Doncaster | 65 | 75 | 64 | 73 | 65 | 79 | 69 | 50 | 65 | 81 | 66 | 75 |
Dorset | 68 | 77 | 70 | 80 | 100 | 50 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 68 | 88 | 68 | 77 |
Dudley | 69 | 80 | 70 | 79 | 77 | 92 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | 76 | 88 | 68 | 80 |
Ealing | 68 | 75 | 67 | 77 | 64 | 71 | 100 | 100 | 73 | 83 | 71 | 78 |
East Riding of Yorkshire | 70 | 81 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 80 | 86 | 70 | 81 |
East Sussex | 71 | 80 | 79 | 83 | 53 | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 70 | 81 | 72 | 80 |
Enfield | 69 | 77 | 83 | 88 | 67 | 80 | 77 | 77 | 75 | 84 | 67 | 74 |
Essex | 72 | 82 | 81 | 87 | 73 | 88 | 80 | 88 | 73 | 83 | 72 | 82 |
Gateshead | 73 | 81 | 73 | 76 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 79 | 67 | 72 | 82 |
Gloucestershire | 70 | 76 | 67 | 82 | 67 | 67 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 70 | 73 | 70 | 76 |
Greenwich | 77 | 85 | 86 | 92 | 82 | 88 | 81 | 85 | 76 | 85 | 72 | 81 |
Hackney | 77 | 85 | 85 | 85 | 75 | 85 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 84 | 89 | 78 | 85 |
Halton | 61 | 72 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 79 | 67 | 61 | 72 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | 75 | 81 | 81 | 85 | 72 | 79 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 72 | 80 | 78 | 83 |
Hampshire | 77 | 84 | 81 | 82 | 78 | 89 | 77 | 85 | 78 | 85 | 77 | 84 |
Haringey | 74 | 81 | 78 | 87 | 72 | 85 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 80 | 84 | 74 | 79 |
Harrow | 72 | 83 | 79 | 89 | 66 | 84 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | 80 | 78 | 61 | 75 |
Hartlepool | 66 | 80 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 66 | 80 |
Havering | 72 | 82 | 74 | 92 | 76 | 91 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 75 | 88 | 71 | 81 |
Herefordshire, County of | 71 | 80 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 71 | 80 |
Hertfordshire | 75 | 83 | 75 | 86 | 74 | 84 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 78 | 85 | 74 | 83 |
Hillingdon | 70 | 80 | 73 | 88 | 69 | 80 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 71 | 81 | 67 | 76 |
Hounslow | 77 | 82 | 82 | 88 | 74 | 82 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 83 | 85 | 72 | 78 |
Isle of Wight | 72 | 79 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 73 | 78 |
Isles of Scilly | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality |
Islington | 73 | 77 | 67 | 78 | 69 | 73 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 80 | 83 | 75 | 80 |
Kensington and Chelsea | 78 | 84 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 79 | 85 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 71 | 90 | 84 | 86 |
Kent | 74 | 82 | 81 | 85 | 79 | 86 | 70 | 83 | 80 | 86 | 74 | 82 |
Kingston upon Hull, City of | 68 | 76 | 82 | 75 | 67 | 67 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 78 | 82 | 67 | 76 |
Kingston upon Thames | 72 | 79 | 79 | 77 | 63 | 75 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 76 | 74 | 70 | 81 |
Kirklees | 67 | 76 | 66 | 75 | 61 | 82 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 63 | 79 | 68 | 77 |
Knowsley | 63 | 74 | 83 | 100 | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | 65 | 80 | 62 | 73 |
Lambeth | 74 | 82 | 75 | 82 | 73 | 82 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 78 | 86 | 75 | 81 |
Lancashire | 69 | 78 | 71 | 74 | 57 | 88 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 68 | 77 | 69 | 79 |
Leeds | 61 | 70 | 62 | 67 | 55 | 70 | 68 | 63 | 61 | 62 | 62 | 72 |
Leicester | 63 | 71 | 70 | 76 | 64 | 76 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 60 | 76 | 56 | 65 |
Leicestershire | 69 | 78 | 79 | 81 | 59 | 89 | 58 | 76 | 78 | 76 | 68 | 78 |
Lewisham | 75 | 82 | 78 | 81 | 72 | 82 | 74 | 78 | 82 | 84 | 76 | 82 |
Lincolnshire | 67 | 78 | 86 | 89 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 64 | 100 | 72 | 82 | 67 | 78 |
Liverpool | 58 | 69 | 62 | 69 | 67 | 73 | 55 | 83 | 52 | 74 | 59 | 70 |
Luton | 65 | 75 | 65 | 78 | 71 | 77 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 76 | 80 | 64 | 74 |
Manchester | 66 | 74 | 64 | 73 | 68 | 80 | 78 | 87 | 73 | 78 | 68 | 73 |
Medway | 72 | 79 | 86 | 75 | 82 | 91 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 78 | 82 | 71 | 78 |
Merton | 71 | 78 | 76 | 78 | 71 | 83 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 66 | 74 | 71 | 77 |
Middlesbrough | 63 | 72 | 59 | 80 | 81 | 86 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 60 | 68 | 65 | 71 |
Milton Keynes | 72 | 79 | 75 | 84 | 76 | 82 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 74 | 85 | 70 | 78 |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 70 | 77 | 67 | 80 | 69 | 77 | 71 | 100 | 77 | 86 | 71 | 77 |
Newham | 75 | 83 | 79 | 87 | 77 | 85 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 84 | 89 | 66 | 73 |
Norfolk | 69 | 80 | 77 | 88 | 76 | 77 | 84 | 82 | 74 | 79 | 69 | 80 |
North East Lincolnshire | 68 | 77 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 74 | 80 | 67 | 77 |
North Lincolnshire | 74 | 82 | 74 | 92 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 74 | 82 |
North Somerset | 73 | 81 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 72 | 77 | 73 | 81 |
North Tyneside | 73 | 80 | 74 | 88 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 78 | 86 | 73 | 80 |
North Yorkshire | 68 | 77 | 70 | 90 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 69 | 75 | 68 | 77 |
Northamptonshire | 69 | 77 | 74 | 82 | 65 | 80 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 68 | 78 | 69 | 77 |
Northumberland | 74 | 84 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | 50 | 77 | 76 | 73 | 84 |
Nottingham | 62 | 71 | 69 | 76 | 68 | 81 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 63 | 74 | 60 | 68 |
Nottinghamshire | 66 | 77 | 64 | 76 | 55 | 82 | 67 | 76 | 72 | 75 | 67 | 78 |
Oldham | 62 | 71 | 59 | 71 | 49 | 61 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 71 | 77 | 66 | 74 |
Oxfordshire | 70 | 78 | 65 | 74 | 76 | 77 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 72 | 80 | 71 | 79 |
Peterborough | 63 | 74 | 63 | 75 | 65 | 90 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 68 | 78 | 63 | 74 |
Plymouth | 66 | 76 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 72 | 74 | 66 | 76 |
Poole | 73 | 83 | 77 | 81 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 78 | 86 | 72 | 83 |
Portsmouth | 67 | 79 | 64 | 78 | 72 | 73 | 100 | 100 | 63 | 80 | 68 | 80 |
Reading | 70 | 79 | 69 | 84 | 74 | 80 | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 72 | 75 | 69 | 79 |
Redbridge | 73 | 82 | 79 | 87 | 70 | 74 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 74 | 84 | 66 | 79 |
Redcar and Cleveland | 71 | 83 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 72 | 83 |
Richmond upon Thames | 76 | 83 | 77 | 80 | 71 | 76 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | 79 | 85 | 76 | 84 |
Rochdale | 66 | 76 | 66 | 75 | 68 | 67 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 77 | 76 | 65 | 77 |
Rotherham | 65 | 76 | 69 | 80 | 62 | 70 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 63 | 80 | 65 | 76 |
Rutland | 78 | 82 | 100 | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 78 | 83 |
Salford | 70 | 79 | 70 | 83 | 64 | 82 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | 71 | 79 | 72 | 80 |
Sandwell | 63 | 73 | 68 | 79 | 68 | 77 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 63 | 76 | 62 | 70 |
Sefton | 66 | 75 | 73 | 75 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 58 | 81 | 67 | 75 |
Sheffield | 67 | 76 | 67 | 78 | 75 | 75 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 66 | 78 | 67 | 76 |
Shropshire | 67 | 80 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 69 | 89 | 67 | 79 |
Slough | 72 | 79 | 78 | 87 | 68 | 85 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 75 | 80 | 66 | 68 |
Solihull | 75 | 82 | 80 | 82 | 68 | 84 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 77 | 82 | 75 | 83 |
Somerset | 70 | 79 | 71 | 90 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 69 | 82 | 71 | 79 |
South Gloucestershire | 74 | 81 | 73 | 84 | 77 | 76 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 69 | 85 | 74 | 81 |
South Tyneside | 76 | 81 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 74 | 60 | 76 | 83 |
Southampton | 70 | 81 | 74 | 86 | 78 | 74 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 75 | 83 | 69 | 80 |
Southend-on-Sea | 71 | 82 | 73 | 88 | 74 | 79 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 62 | 83 | 72 | 82 |
Southwark | 73 | 80 | 83 | 82 | 72 | 83 | 79 | 76 | 70 | 82 | 78 | 79 |
St. Helens | 63 | 73 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 68 | 72 | 63 | 73 |
Staffordshire | 72 | 82 | 78 | 82 | 50 | 88 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 77 | 83 | 72 | 82 |
Stockport | 72 | 80 | 79 | 76 | 68 | 80 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 70 | 82 | 73 | 80 |
Stockton-on-Tees | 70 | 82 | 74 | 88 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | 100 | 62 | 72 | 71 | 82 |
Stoke-on-Trent | 64 | 76 | 62 | 80 | 62 | 85 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 65 | 84 | 65 | 75 |
Suffolk | 68 | 77 | 84 | 77 | 75 | 74 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 70 | 78 | 68 | 77 |
Sunderland | 71 | 79 | 66 | 78 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 70 | 84 | 72 | 80 |
Surrey | 75 | 83 | 78 | 86 | 79 | 86 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 76 | 87 | 74 | 82 |
Sutton | 74 | 82 | 82 | 89 | 77 | 78 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 82 | 82 | 70 | 80 |
Swindon | 65 | 77 | 70 | 81 | 64 | 86 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 64 | 87 | 65 | 76 |
Tameside | 65 | 75 | 61 | 70 | 68 | 80 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 65 | 80 | 66 | 76 |
Telford and Wrekin | 73 | 82 | 65 | 80 | 77 | 89 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 84 | 76 | 73 | 82 |
Thurrock | 73 | 80 | 72 | 92 | 78 | 90 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 77 | 84 | 72 | 77 |
Torbay | 68 | 78 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 64 | 86 | 68 | 78 |
Tower Hamlets | 71 | 81 | 72 | 81 | 75 | 81 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 71 | 89 | 68 | 76 |
Trafford | 75 | 83 | 71 | 85 | 83 | 88 | 69 | 85 | 74 | 79 | 76 | 83 |
Wakefield | 66 | 78 | 59 | 75 | 68 | 75 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 70 | 84 | 66 | 79 |
Walsall | 68 | 75 | 73 | 78 | 80 | 82 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | 69 | 81 | 67 | 75 |
Waltham Forest | 76 | 83 | 77 | 85 | 73 | 87 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 82 | 86 | 74 | 80 |
Wandsworth | 78 | 84 | 77 | 87 | 70 | 80 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 76 | 80 | 83 | 86 |
Warrington | 72 | 80 | 68 | 84 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | 83 | 84 | 72 | 80 |
Warwickshire | 72 | 81 | 78 | 87 | 61 | 81 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | 73 | 82 | 71 | 81 |
West Berkshire | 72 | 79 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 78 | 93 | 71 | 78 |
West Sussex | 64 | 75 | 73 | 77 | 62 | 61 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 71 | 77 | 63 | 75 |
Westminster | 75 | 79 | 77 | 81 | 82 | 79 | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 78 | 88 | 78 | 83 |
Wigan | 69 | 79 | 69 | 73 | 71 | 76 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 72 | 88 | 69 | 79 |
Wiltshire | 70 | 77 | 74 | 84 | 69 | 90 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 78 | 80 | 70 | 77 |
Windsor and Maidenhead | 77 | 83 | 70 | 86 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 76 | 80 | 79 | 84 |
Wirral | 66 | 78 | 76 | 79 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 67 | 50 | 70 | 84 | 65 | 78 |
Wokingham | 77 | 84 | 85 | 87 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | 82 | 86 | 75 | 82 |
Wolverhampton | 66 | 76 | 70 | 80 | 75 | 83 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 67 | 80 | 63 | 73 |
Worcestershire | 69 | 77 | 63 | 71 | 79 | 50 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 64 | 84 | 69 | 77 |
York | 71 | 78 | 64 | 83 | withheld to protect confidentiality | 100 | withheld to protect confidentiality | withheld to protect confidentiality | 64 | 81 | 72 | 78 |
Download table data for ‘Reading attainment for children aged 5 to 7 by ethnicity, gender and area’ (CSV) Source data for ‘Reading attainment for children aged 5 to 7 by ethnicity, gender and area’ (CSV)
Summary of Reading attainments for children aged 5 to 7 (key stage 1) Reading attainment for children aged 5 to 7 by ethnicity, gender and area Summary
The data shows that:
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overall, girls did better than boys in most local authorities
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girls were most likely to reach the expected standard in Hackney and Greenwich in London, where 85% of girls did so
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boys were most likely to reach the expected standard in Bexley in London, where 79% of boys did so
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for Asian pupils, the biggest attainment gap was in Cheshire West in the North West, where 87% of girls met the expected standard, compared to 63% of boys
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for Black pupils, the biggest attainment gap was in Dorset in the South West, where 50% of girls met the expected standard, compared to 100% of boys
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for Chinese pupils, the biggest attainment gap was in Northumberland in the North East, where 50% of girls met the expected standard, compared to 100% of boys
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for pupils in the Mixed ethnic group, the biggest attainment gap was in Bury in the North West, where 81% of girls met the expected standard, compared to 45% of boys
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for White pupils, the biggest attainment gap was in Harrow in London, where 75% of girls met the expected standard, compared to 61% of boys, and in Hartlepool in the North East, where 80% of girls met the expected standard compared to 66% of boys
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please be aware except for the information for White pupils, the statistics quoted for reading by ethnicity, gender and local authority are based on small numbers of pupils and are highly variable over time
8. Methodology
The key stage 1 dataset is compiled using information matched together from three data sources:
- key stage 1 teacher assessment results
- prior attainment results in phonics
- school census records
Key stage 1 results received from local authorities are combined with pupil characteristics from the school census by the department’s contractor.
Records are matched using identifiers such as surname, forename, date of birth, unique pupil number (UPN), gender and postcode. This successfully matches around 98% of results.
Key stage 1 assessment results are not published at school level. The coverage of the local authority (LA) and regional statistics is for state-funded schools only in England. This includes schools and academies but excludes hospital schools, pupil referral units and alternative provision.
The information is collected from 16,337 schools (approximately 650,000 pupils).
Pupils are included in the figures for free school meals (FSM) if their families have claimed eligibility for FSM at the time of the annual spring school census. This FSM definition includes all who were eligible to receive FSM, not only those who actually received FSM. Pupils not eligible for FSM or unclassified pupils are described as ‘non-FSM’.
Parents are able to claim FSM if they receive a qualifying benefit.
FSM is used as an indicator of disadvantage, but when drawing conclusions, it should be remembered that not all eligible parents apply for FSM. Families who don’t quite reach the eligibility threshold for FSM may still be suffering deprivation.
Any pupils who do not have a valid key stage 1 outcome for a subject are excluded from the calculations for that subject and do not appear in the number of eligible pupils or in the outcome percentages. For reading, writing and mathematics, the valid outcomes are:
- below the pre-key stage standard (BLW)
- foundations for the expected standard (PKF)
- working towards the expected standard (WTS)
- working at the expected standard (EXS)
- working at greater depth within the expected standard (GDS)
- absent (A)
- disapplied (D)
For science, the valid outcomes are:
- has not met the expected standard (HNM)
- working at the expected standard (EXS)
- absent (A)
- disapplied (D)
As with phonics, we include pupils with ‘A’ or ‘D’ to ensure complete coverage of the cohort. In the 2016 data, there were no pupils with maladministration in any subject.
Suppression rules and disclosure control
Values of 1 or 2 or a percentage based on 1 or 2 pupils who achieved, or did not achieve, a particular standard are suppressed. Some additional figures may be suppressed to prevent the possibility of a suppressed figure being revealed. This suppression is consistent with DfE’s statistical policy on confidentiality.
Figures for the Isles of Scilly and City of London are suppressed in DfE’s key stage 1 provisional Statistical First Release as these local authorities have a single school and DfE do not publish school level information in the performance tables at the time of the provisional release. These figures become unsuppressed in the revised release as school level figures are already published in the performance tables.
Regional eligible pupil figures are rounded to the nearest 10 so that it is not possible to derive figures for these LAs by summing the figures for the other LAs in the region.
In the school level data, any figures relating to a cohort of 5 pupils or fewer will be suppressed. This applies to sub-groups of pupils as well as the whole cohort, for example, if there were five boys and three girls in a school, DfE would not publish attainment for boys or girls separately but would publish attainment for all pupils as this is based on 8 pupils. The Code of Practice for Official Statistics requires DfE to take reasonable steps to ensure that their published or disseminated statistics protect confidentiality.
For more information about DfE’s disclosure control procedures for its statistical releases please see DfE’s statistical policy statement on confidentiality (PDF opens in a new window or tab)
Rounding
All charts, tables and downloads are rounded to the nearest whole number.
Related publications
Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2016
9. Data sources
Source
Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2016
Type of data
Administrative data
Type of statistic
National Statistics
Publisher
Department for Education
Publication frequency
Yearly
Purpose of data source
This data provides results for the 2016 phonics screening checks and key stage 1 national curriculum assessments for pupils in schools in England. The results are used to monitor pupils’ attainment and progress in reading, writing, science and mathematics.
10. Download the data
This file contains: ethnicity, year, gender, FSM status, denominator
This file contains: ethnicity, year, gender, region, local authority, denominator
This file contains: ethnicity, year, gender, denominator