Reading results for 10 to 11 year olds

Published 13 May 2020

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Contents

1. Main facts and figures

• 73% of 10 to 11 year olds met the expected standard in reading in the 2018 to 2019 school year
• 27% of pupils met the higher standard
• out of all ethnic groups, pupils from the White Irish and Chinese ethnic groups were most likely to meet the expected standard
• out of all ethnic groups, pupils from the Chinese ethnic group were most likely to meet the higher standard
• pupils from the White Gypsy and Roma ethnic group were least likely to meet both the expected and higher standards
• in every ethnic group, girls were more likely than boys to meet both the expected and higher standards
• pupils from the White Irish ethnic group made the most progress between 7 and 11 years old
• pupils from the White Gypsy and Roma ethnic group made the least progress between 7 and 11 years old

Things you need to know

In the 2018 to 2019 school year, 644,769 pupils were assessed for reading in key stage 2 at state-funded schools.

Ethnicity was known for 99% of pupils. Of those:

• 74% of pupils were White
• 11% were Asian
• 6% had Mixed ethnicity
• 6% were Black
• 0.4 % were Chinese
• 2% were from Other ethnic groups

There were 2,320 White Gypsy and Roma pupils and 473 Traveller of Irish Heritage pupils.

The Isles of Scilly had 19 pupils and the City of London had 28. Please use caution when interpreting figures for these groups and local authorities as they are based on small numbers of pupils.

Numbers of pupils vary in the results for different subjects. This is because pupils who don’t have a valid result for a particular subject are excluded from the total. For more about valid results, see the Methodology.

What the data measures

The data measures the reading attainment of pupils at the end of key stage 2 (year 6), when children are usually 10 or 11 years old.

The data covers the 2018 to 2019 school year. The download file also provides attainment for pupils who were eligible for free school meals and those who were not eligible.

Teachers assess each pupil against the following standards:

• expected standard – pupils must have a ‘scaled score’ of 100 or more
• higher standard – pupils must have a ‘scaled score’ of 110 or more

Figures for each ethnic group include:

• average scaled scores
• progress scores

Scaled scores range from 80 to 120. They allow for variations in test difficulty year on year and help give a clearer comparison between years. Read more about scaled scores at key stage 2.

The progress score measures the progress that pupils make between the end of key stage 1 (primary school year 2) and the end of key stage 2 (year 6). A pupil’s results are compared with the actual achievements of other pupils nationally with similar key stage 1 results. This data shows an average progress score for each ethnic group.

A progress score of 0 (the national average) means pupils are making the expected amount of progress.

A positive score (0.1 and above) means they are making more progress than expected.

A negative score (-0.1 and below) means they are making less progress than expected.

The ethnic categories used in this data

This data uses categories from the Department for Education’s school census. These groupings are based on the 2001 national Census, with 2 exceptions:

• White Irish Traveller and White Gypsy and Roma children have been separated into 2 categories
• pupils in the Chinese ethnic group are in a separate category from Asian pupils

These changes were made after consultations with local authorities and lobby groups.

Local authority data is only provided for 6 ethnic groups:

• Asian
• Black
• Chinese
• Mixed
• White
• Other

2. By ethnicity

• Location: England
• Time period: 2018 to 2019 school year
• Source: National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2019 (revised)

Percentage of pupils meeting the expected and higher standards in reading, and average scaled score and progress score, by ethnicity

Ethnicity	Expected standard	Higher standard	Average scaled score	Progress score
All	73	27	104	0.0
Asian	74	28	105	0.6
Bangladeshi	75	28	105	1.0
Indian	80	36	106	0.8
Pakistani	69	22	103	0.2
Asian other	76	30	105	0.7
Black	72	24	104	0.2
Black African	74	25	104	0.5
Black Caribbean	67	19	103	-0.6
Black other	70	21	103	0.1
Chinese	82	43	107	1.5
Mixed	75	29	105	0.4
Mixed White/Asian	80	36	106	0.8
Mixed White/Black African	76	28	105	0.4
Mixed White/Black Caribbean	70	22	103	-0.4
Mixed other	76	31	105	0.6
White	73	27	104	-0.1
White British	74	27	105	-0.2
White Irish	82	38	107	1.8
Gypsy/Roma	28	6	95	-1.1
Irish Traveller	39	9	98	-0.6
White other	69	25	104	1.2
Other	67	23	103	0.9
Unknown	58	21	103	0.2

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Summary of Reading results for 10 to 11 year olds By ethnicity Summary

The data shows that:

• 73% of pupils met the expected standard in reading in year 6 (when they were 10 or 11 years old)
• 27% met the higher standard
• 82% of pupils from the White Irish and Chinese ethnic groups met the expected standard, the highest percentage out of all ethnic groups
• 43% of pupils from the Chinese ethnic group met the higher standard, the highest percentage out of all ethnic groups
• 28% of White Gypsy and Roma pupils met the expected standard, the lowest percentage out of all ethnic groups
• 6% of White Gypsy and Roma pupils met the higher standard, the lowest percentage out of all ethnic groups
• pupils from the White Irish and Chinese ethnic group had the highest average scaled score (107) compared with the national average (104)
• pupils from the White Gypsy and Roma ethnic group had the lowest average scaled score (95)
• pupils from the White Irish ethnic group made the most progress with a score of 1.8
• White Gypsy and Roma pupils made the least progress with a score of -1.1

3. By ethnicity and area

• Location: England
• Time period: 2018 to 2019 school year
• Source: National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2019 (revised)

Percentage of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading by ethnicity and area

	All		Asian		Black		Chinese		Mixed		White		Other
Local authority	All %	All Pupils	Asian %	Asian Pupils	Black %	Black Pupils	Chinese %	Chinese Pupils	Mixed %	Mixed Pupils	White %	White Pupils	Other %	Other Pupils
Barking and Dagenham	73	2,552	80	609	77	833	90	9	67	207	67	852	63	30
Barnet	80	3,366	83	388	75	372	87	48	81	346	83	1,836	73	339
Barnsley	73	2,056	92	23	77	17	100	2	69	49	73	1,946	80	8
Bath and North East Somerset	77	1,394	86	24	73	8	60	3	79	74	77	1,265	67	6
Bedford	66	1,429	61	202	66	82	67	4	62	157	68	965	46	13
Bexley	77	2,606	87	234	82	493	98	55	80	187	74	1,577	76	45
Birmingham	70	11,333	71	4,292	69	1,449	75	65	72	1,000	69	3,811	67	572
Blackburn with Darwen	74	1,620	73	718	85	28	80	4	76	55	74	793	90	19
Blackpool	76	1,275	74	26	60	3	50	2	73	44	77	1,195	50	4
Bolton	71	2,820	69	669	59	148	100	6	76	119	74	1,820	59	44
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	74	2,853	82	108	88	14	86	12	77	175	74	2,486	68	27
Bracknell Forest	76	1,088	85	66	69	33	90	9	81	82	76	885	86	6
Bradford	71	5,576	72	2,403	73	96	71	5	69	281	70	2,700	66	67
Brent	75	2,727	76	845	74	647	78	7	79	225	76	706	64	276
Brighton and Hove	77	2,079	78	66	74	43	79	15	80	225	77	1,660	63	35
Bristol, City of	72	3,490	70	272	64	352	83	19	68	304	74	2,491	67	33
Bromley	81	3,028	86	184	78	285	96	27	85	348	80	2,083	78	53
Buckinghamshire	77	4,844	75	787	70	117	88	22	77	375	78	3,472	79	33
Bury	73	1,734	69	250	59	34	83	10	72	83	74	1,333	61	19
Calderdale	75	2,044	75	360	48	12	100	9	74	81	75	1,567	67	10
Cambridgeshire	73	5,149	77	230	70	60	90	43	76	289	72	4,416	77	47
Camden	80	1,234	79	272	77	222	88	15	82	140	83	508	73	59
Central Bedfordshire	72	2,491	76	56	73	65	100	4	71	184	71	2,146	72	13
Cheshire East	77	3,262	76	65	75	12	50	7	81	142	77	3,009	74	14
Cheshire West and Chester	74	2,976	82	49	53	10	71	12	76	81	75	2,799	81	17
City of London	89	25	73	8	100	2	N/A*	N/A*	100	4	100	9	100	2
Cornwall	72	4,237	67	10	33	1	78	7	76	108	73	4,052	73	16
County Durham	73	4,158	79	27	78	7	67	12	83	83	72	4,006	68	13
Coventry	69	3,046	70	671	70	372	71	15	71	209	69	1,718	62	44
Croydon	75	3,463	82	595	74	972	81	26	71	517	74	1,265	74	51
Cumbria	76	3,960	77	34	78	7	75	6	74	57	76	3,794	68	13
Darlington	75	955	68	21	71	5	0	0	80	24	75	892	64	7
Derby	69	2,298	71	444	73	95	100	10	73	180	69	1,503	58	43
Derbyshire	72	6,320	81	86	75	18	88	29	74	193	72	5,926	86	19
Devon	75	5,937	77	48	73	8	87	20	76	148	75	5,631	68	36
Doncaster	68	2,536	67	73	69	38	81	17	66	73	68	2,315	64	14
Dorset	72	2,826	81	22	67	8	75	9	70	86	72	2,682	100	3
Dudley	67	2,604	70	286	54	51	71	10	63	163	68	2,036	55	45
Ealing	78	3,380	78	976	74	507	94	17	85	307	80	1,056	73	482
East Riding of Yorkshire	73	2,664	82	14	71	5	100	2	73	57	73	2,554	67	12
East Sussex	72	3,976	78	90	71	29	79	11	77	246	72	3,541	50	16
Enfield	73	3,395	80	307	73	853	83	24	79	381	70	1,586	75	187
Essex	75	12,437	86	385	79	414	93	50	79	714	74	10,636	78	103
Gateshead	77	1,615	78	36	70	26	100	9	87	33	77	1,478	73	24
Gloucestershire	75	5,120	80	163	67	74	76	13	80	269	75	4,536	50	11
Greenwich	79	2,664	84	238	81	986	85	41	82	282	76	1,051	72	58
Hackney	72	1,866	74	231	69	654	91	10	78	209	71	637	74	113
Halton	70	1,122	71	5	100	1	N/A*	N/A*	58	19	70	1,088	40	2
Hammersmith and Fulham	79	1,050	79	63	73	271	100	3	75	138	85	433	80	119
Hampshire	76	11,283	80	383	76	140	77	41	81	475	76	10,120	77	74
Haringey	73	2,240	79	149	68	546	80	24	79	271	75	1,115	62	116
Harrow	80	2,343	81	1,140	76	215	100	8	82	208	79	653	74	90
Hartlepool	76	894	71	17	67	2	89	8	80	12	76	850	40	2
Havering	78	2,343	82	202	79	290	67	6	78	164	77	1,639	75	15
Herefordshire, County of	78	1,464	90	9	86	6	67	2	83	50	78	1,387	71	5
Hertfordshire	77	10,958	78	949	75	486	82	56	78	795	77	8,478	69	117
Hillingdon	76	2,961	81	871	73	325	100	6	76	353	74	1,134	72	232
Hounslow	77	2,551	82	887	74	292	89	16	76	222	74	817	77	288
Isle of Wight	71	906	80	8	100	3	100	5	72	36	70	848	100	1
Isles of Scilly	84	16	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*	83	15	N/A*	N/A*
Islington	76	1,454	74	111	72	351	100	10	78	238	79	657	73	72
Kensington and Chelsea	84	793	71	30	83	152	100	3	88	165	86	297	77	126
Kent	76	13,611	85	620	82	433	94	48	77	762	75	11,515	74	118
Kingston upon Hull, City of	76	2,422	87	46	72	47	100	5	75	88	76	2,175	72	53
Kingston upon Thames	79	1,497	81	270	78	28	77	23	81	173	78	891	73	95
Kirklees	70	3,887	69	1,034	59	61	88	14	70	257	71	2,470	48	24
Knowsley	75	1,362	89	34	83	10	50	1	62	24	75	1,280	67	6
Lambeth	79	2,382	87	136	74	998	88	15	83	350	81	748	78	119
Lancashire	72	10,181	68	1,090	74	42	85	35	75	361	73	8,572	64	41
Leeds	70	6,570	67	748	64	488	79	41	70	443	72	4,705	55	101
Leicester	70	3,313	72	1,462	75	358	71	12	71	235	66	1,143	70	75
Leicestershire	75	5,722	80	460	77	70	82	23	77	289	74	4,823	67	20
Lewisham	76	2,643	82	168	73	997	81	38	76	426	80	902	68	76
Lincolnshire	69	5,705	91	79	79	33	80	20	73	182	68	5,317	75	27
Liverpool	71	3,732	75	176	71	176	82	65	69	203	72	2,976	60	127
Luton	70	2,263	69	1,056	70	242	80	8	75	210	68	691	73	38
Manchester	70	4,689	67	1,030	72	868	80	51	73	415	70	1,973	63	314
Medway	71	2,408	78	145	80	195	71	5	72	163	70	1,855	82	28
Merton	79	1,813	82	402	72	248	100	15	74	170	80	907	83	60
Middlesbrough	72	1,324	71	140	72	13	N/A*	N/A*	70	78	72	1,053	74	35
Milton Keynes	76	2,865	82	399	73	392	92	24	79	245	75	1,721	83	25
Newcastle upon Tyne	73	2,170	76	308	71	135	81	29	72	97	73	1,536	71	57
Newham	81	3,848	83	1,793	79	885	90	18	82	255	77	643	79	222
Norfolk	70	6,423	80	114	60	49	74	28	72	233	70	5,894	66	52
North East Lincolnshire	72	1,388	78	14	43	3	100	1	79	46	72	1,300	81	17
North Lincolnshire	72	1,401	63	48	58	7	100	3	65	22	72	1,300	71	10
North Somerset	75	1,800	76	25	83	10	88	7	83	76	74	1,671	75	3
North Tyneside	75	1,844	74	43	74	14	88	15	80	61	75	1,700	75	6
North Yorkshire	73	4,617	76	64	42	13	90	9	69	119	73	4,363	68	17
Northamptonshire	70	6,624	77	341	68	362	85	28	66	345	70	5,456	66	46
Northumberland	75	2,687	84	48	40	2	100	7	80	53	75	2,562	75	9
Nottingham	71	2,548	77	449	72	319	75	9	74	362	69	1,324	68	71
Nottinghamshire	73	6,770	78	224	67	74	69	18	76	319	72	6,045	61	36
Oldham	71	2,466	67	778	69	90	77	10	74	132	73	1,427	48	13
Oxfordshire	74	5,519	69	322	67	141	80	16	74	380	75	4,529	61	61
Peterborough	64	1,915	60	343	65	88	75	6	66	124	64	1,303	67	24
Plymouth	73	2,148	78	21	71	17	100	10	73	66	73	1,994	63	25
Portsmouth	67	1,482	72	86	70	53	56	5	75	90	66	1,201	70	30
Reading	72	1,352	74	282	68	129	82	9	72	156	72	741	71	17
Redbridge	79	3,208	81	1,771	75	352	100	21	79	241	75	745	81	44
Redcar and Cleveland	78	1,276	70	7	80	4	100	1	82	41	78	1,214	14	1
Richmond upon Thames	88	2,036	84	174	69	40	75	18	84	192	90	1,543	85	46
Rochdale	69	2,069	65	513	66	83	83	10	66	76	71	1,356	59	22
Rotherham	66	2,241	53	141	70	46	83	10	62	68	67	1,943	82	23
Rutland	77	306	80	4	50	3	N/A*	N/A*	92	11	78	284	50	2
Salford	73	2,171	78	80	73	125	100	1	70	168	74	1,721	58	57
Sandwell	71	3,354	73	1,017	71	347	75	18	70	308	69	1,569	68	77
Sefton	73	2,160	67	20	64	9	71	5	78	60	74	2,050	54	7
Sheffield	71	4,488	70	552	66	253	90	43	71	343	72	3,119	69	151
Shropshire	75	2,308	83	20	43	3	75	3	73	68	75	2,195	75	3
Slough	76	1,787	84	949	72	153	100	3	76	161	64	438	77	71
Solihull	78	2,041	81	279	75	43	97	29	75	166	77	1,473	84	27
Somerset	71	4,162	79	63	81	13	92	12	68	121	71	3,914	44	8
South Gloucestershire	74	2,460	78	81	71	32	82	9	79	135	74	2,171	69	18
South Tyneside	75	1,249	81	46	80	8	67	2	72	31	75	1,154	56	5
Southampton	71	2,006	71	263	81	73	75	12	72	126	71	1,490	73	38
Southend-on-Sea	76	1,671	86	121	77	49	91	21	76	111	75	1,337	94	15
Southwark	76	2,516	75	135	73	1,100	77	23	78	294	79	735	70	178
St. Helens	73	1,619	85	17	50	6	80	8	65	28	74	1,553	63	5
Staffordshire	74	7,221	68	301	64	49	76	28	71	251	74	6,517	80	37
Stockport	75	2,580	74	187	76	34	91	20	69	126	76	2,179	63	20
Stockton-on-Tees	76	1,895	76	104	78	21	57	4	84	56	76	1,700	71	5
Stoke-on-Trent	68	2,275	70	351	69	90	83	10	76	121	67	1,665	66	37
Suffolk	71	5,669	73	106	70	60	75	3	74	345	71	5,027	61	45
Sunderland	74	2,417	77	101	86	24	77	10	76	42	74	2,231	33	1
Surrey	79	9,807	80	692	73	167	89	62	80	627	79	8,064	74	98
Sutton	80	1,925	86	363	80	134	90	37	82	194	78	1,149	71	24
Swindon	71	2,071	73	253	71	65	67	10	75	134	71	1,574	63	15
Tameside	72	2,127	72	224	71	60	92	12	74	104	72	1,696	67	16
Telford and Wrekin	74	1,702	71	106	66	57	85	11	82	96	74	1,417	100	6
Thurrock	76	1,848	84	114	83	331	81	13	83	118	74	1,238	69	18
Torbay	75	1,091	80	20	100	1	75	3	81	34	75	1,020	64	7
Tower Hamlets	79	2,623	79	1,725	75	252	100	11	82	175	78	357	83	90
Trafford	83	2,493	86	384	74	102	87	54	83	193	83	1,672	81	66
Wakefield	71	2,851	62	102	75	42	82	18	73	91	71	2,581	54	14
Walsall	70	2,657	75	707	67	131	86	12	70	165	69	1,599	61	31
Waltham Forest	78	2,599	78	682	76	485	90	26	82	327	79	967	75	97
Wandsworth	77	1,837	75	332	69	380	90	9	78	232	81	796	73	65
Warrington	79	2,048	76	67	74	17	100	6	89	68	78	1,868	50	10
Warwickshire	75	4,759	82	314	73	58	91	20	80	252	74	4,053	80	24
West Berkshire	74	1,449	72	39	65	15	100	6	74	77	75	1,295	70	7
West Sussex	74	6,805	73	318	71	89	73	16	75	342	74	5,931	77	40
Westminster	78	1,119	79	151	79	202	92	11	81	120	82	306	74	319
Wigan	74	2,803	74	32	67	38	50	3	69	68	74	2,633	66	25
Wiltshire	75	4,002	83	55	66	59	94	15	80	151	74	3,658	73	35
Windsor and Maidenhead	77	1,226	73	185	64	14	100	6	78	108	79	882	76	16
Wirral	69	2,606	84	76	67	12	75	15	72	71	69	2,417	22	2
Wokingham	81	1,736	84	259	89	55	100	14	82	137	80	1,239	78	14
Wolverhampton	72	2,436	75	586	73	288	88	7	69	275	72	1,236	66	31
Worcestershire	72	4,448	71	178	79	23	90	9	75	182	72	4,002	67	16
York	75	1,496	76	31	86	6	100	4	72	44	75	1,392	73	8

^* Not applicable

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Summary of Reading results for 10 to 11 year olds By ethnicity and area Summary

The data shows that:

• out of all local authorities, White pupils were most likely to meet the expected standard in Richmond upon Thames (90%) and least likely to in Peterborough, and Slough (64%) – this doesn't include City of London and Isles of Scilly which only have one school each, and whose results need to be treated with caution
• figures for other ethnic groups are based on small numbers of pupils, so reliable generalisations can't be made

4. By ethnicity and gender

• Location: England
• Time period: 2018 to 2019 school year
• Source: National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2019 (revised)

Percentage of pupils meeting the expected and higher standards in reading, and average scaled score and progress score, by ethnicity and gender

	Boys				Girls
Ethnicity	Boys Expected standard	Boys Higher standard	Boys Average scaled score	Boys Progress score	Girls Expected standard	Girls Higher standard	Girls Average scaled score	Girls Progress score
All	69	22	103	-0.5	78	32	106	0.6
Asian	70	24	104	0.0	79	33	106	1.1
Bangladeshi	70	24	104	0.5	80	32	106	1.4
Indian	77	31	105	0.2	84	42	107	1.5
Pakistani	64	18	102	-0.3	74	27	104	0.7
Asian other	72	25	104	0.2	80	34	106	1.2
Black	66	18	103	-0.5	78	29	105	0.9
Black African	69	20	103	-0.2	80	31	106	1.2
Black Caribbean	59	13	101	-1.5	74	25	104	0.2
Black other	64	16	102	-0.5	76	26	104	0.8
Chinese	80	38	107	1.0	85	48	108	2.0
Mixed	70	24	104	-0.4	81	35	106	1.1
Mixed White/Asian	76	30	105	0.1	84	42	107	1.5
Mixed White/Black African	69	22	103	-0.4	82	34	106	1.1
Mixed White/Black Caribbean	64	17	102	-1.1	77	28	105	0.4
Mixed other	71	25	104	-0.1	81	36	106	1.4
White	69	22	103	-0.7	78	32	105	0.5
White British	70	23	103	-0.8	79	32	106	0.3
White Irish	80	33	106	1.2	84	44	108	2.3
Gypsy/Roma	23	4	94	-1.6	33	8	96	-0.6
Irish Traveller	34	7	97	-1.2	44	11	99	-0.1
White other	64	20	103	0.6	74	30	105	1.9
Other	63	19	102	0.4	72	27	104	1.4
Unknown	53	17	102	-0.6	63	26	104	0.9

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Summary of Reading results for 10 to 11 year olds By ethnicity and gender Summary

The data shows that:

• 78% of girls and 69% of boys met the expected standard in reading in year 6 (when they were 10 or 11 years old)
• 32% of girls and 22% of boys met the higher standard
• in every ethnic group, girls were more likely than boys to meet both the expected and higher standard
• girls from the Chinese ethnic group were the most likely to meet the expected (85%) and higher standard (48%)
• boys from the White Gypsy and Roma ethnic group were the least likely to meet the expected (23%) and higher standard (4%)
• the smallest gap between girls (84%) and boys (80%) meeting the expected standard was in the White Irish ethnic group
• the biggest gap between girls (74%) and boys (59%) meeting the expected standard was in the Black Caribbean ethnic group
• overall, the average scaled score was 106 for girls and 103 for boys
• girls from the White Irish and Chinese ethnic groups had the highest average scaled score (108)
• boys from the White Gypsy and Roma ethnic group had the lowest average scaled score (94)
• overall, girls had an above average progress score of 0.6, while boys had a below average progress score of -0.5
• girls from the White Irish ethnic group made the most progress with an average score of 2.3
• boys from the White Gypsy and Roma ethnic group made the least progress with an average score of -1.6

5. Methodology

The key stage 2 datasets combine information from the following 2 data sources:

• key stage 1 results
• school census records

Key stage 2 data from the Standard Testing Agency is matched to school census records to identify pupils’ ethnicities and free school meal eligibility.

Only pupils with a valid outcome are included in the calculations for that subject.

Valid outcomes are:

• achieved the higher standard
• achieved the expected standard
• working towards the expected standard
• special consideration
• absent
• working below the standard of the test
• unable to access the test

Confidence intervals

Confidence intervals are calculated for a school based on a specific group of pupils. This is because:

• a school may perform differently with a different set of pupils
• some pupils may be more likely to achieve high or low results, independently of which school they attend

To account for this uncertainty, it is best to interpret these school scores alongside their associated confidence intervals. You can see these if you download the data.

How school scores are interpreted alongside their confidence intervals:

• if the lower confidence interval is greater than zero, the school has achieved greater than average progress compared to pupils with similar starting points nationally
• if the upper confidence interval is below zero, then the school has made less than average progress
• where the 95% confidence intervals overlap zero, this means that the school’s progress score is not significantly different from the national

Rounding

Percentages given in charts, tables and downloads are rounded to the nearest whole number. Progress scores are given to 1 decimal place.

Related publications

Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2019.

Quality and methodology information

6. Data sources

Source

National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2019 (revised)

Type of data

Administrative data

Type of statistic

National Statistics

Publisher

Department for Education

Publication frequency

Yearly

Purpose of data source

The main purpose is to measure schools' and pupils' progress and performance from key stage 1 to key stage 2, in order to monitor and improve standards and inform parental choice when applying to local schools.

7. Download the data

KS2 Reading - Spreadsheet (csv) 124 KB

This file contains the following: measure, ethnicity, year, gender, age group, Free School Meal eligibility, geography, denominator, numerator, value, confidence intervals (upper bound, lower bound)

KS2 Reading Local Authority - Spreadsheet (csv) 839 KB

This file contains the following: measure, ethnicity, year, gender, age group, geography, denominator, numerator, value

KS2 Reading Progress - Spreadsheet (csv) 48 KB

This file contains the following: measure, ethnicity, year, gender, age group, Free School Meal eligibility, geography, denominator, numerator, value, confidence intervals (upper bound, lower bound)

Publication release date: 13 May 2020

full page history

1. 13 May 2020 Updated with the latest available data (for the 2018 to 2019 school year).

From: Department for Education

Previous editions:

1. 19 September 2019
2. 14 May 2019
3. 5 March 2018

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