Development goals for 4 to 5 year olds

Published 12 February 2020

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1. Main facts and figures

• 71% of 4 to 5 year olds met the expected standard in development by the end of the 2018 to 2019 school year
• 76% of pupils from the Chinese ethnic group met the expected standard (the highest percentage out of the 6 aggregated ethnic groups)
• 78% of pupils from the Indian ethnic group met the standard (the highest percentage out of all 18 ethnic groups)
• in every ethnic group, pupils eligible for free school meals were less likely to meet the standard than non-eligible pupils
• in every ethnic group, girls were more likely to meet the expected standard than boys

Things you need to know

In the 2018 to 2019 school year, there were 638,946 pupils at the end of the early years foundation stage in England.

The ethnic group was known for 616,459 (97%) of them. Of those:

• 72% were White
• 11% were Asian
• 7% had Mixed ethnicity
• 5% were Black
• 2% were from the Other ethnic group
• 0.5% were from the Chinese ethnic group

The results include pupils at both:

• state-funded schools (including academies)
• private, voluntary and independent settings

Schools complete each child's early years foundation stage profile during the summer term of the academic year in which the child reaches 5 years old. This is usually the child's 'reception year' at primary school.

Some pupils aren’t included, for example if they:

• have an exemption from the Secretary of State for Education
• are continuing in EYFS provision beyond the year in which they turn 5 years old
• have recently arrived from abroad and so the school can't carry out an accurate assessment
• have spent a long time away from school, for example because of illness

The percentages shown here don't include pupils who were exempt.

Figures for some ethnic groups at the local authority level are very small. Please use caution when you're interpreting them.

What the data measures

This data measures the percentage of pupils who met the expected standard in development at the end of the early years foundation stage in England.

Teachers assess their pupils' development at the end of the school year in which the children turn 5 years old. (Usually the reception year of primary school.)

Children are assessed against ‘early learning goals’ in 7 areas of learning.

This data covers the academic year 2018/19 (September 2018 to July 2019).

Data was collected for 638,946 pupils.

The ethnic categories used in this data

This data uses categories from the Department for Education’s (DfE) school census. This is based on the 2001 Census of England and Wales, with 3 exceptions:

• Travellers of Irish Heritage and Gypsy/Roma pupils 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.

Information is provided for both individual and aggregated ethnic groups categories where possible and when the data is available. The 6 aggregated ethnic groups are:

• Asian
• Black
• Chinese
• Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups
• White
• Other ethnic group

The Other ethnic group isn’t included in data analysed by local authority area, because DfE does not publish this data.

2. By ethnicity

• Location: England
• Time period: 2018 to 2019 school year
• Source: Early years foundation stage profile results: 2018 to 2019

Percentage of 4 to 5 year olds who met the expected standard in development, and total number of eligible pupils, by ethnicity

Ethnicity	%	All pupils
All	71	638,946
Asian	69	69,185
Bangladeshi	67	10,212
Indian	78	20,363
Pakistani	64	27,141
Asian other	69	11,469
Black	68	31,136
Black African	68	21,432
Black Caribbean	68	5,270
Black other	66	4,434
Chinese	76	3,002
Mixed	72	41,685
Mixed White/Asian	75	10,305
Mixed White/Black African	71	5,777
Mixed White/Black Caribbean	69	9,814
Mixed other	73	15,789
White	72	459,403
White British	73	409,675
White Irish	74	1,551
Gypsy/Roma	34	2,151
Irish Traveller	39	665
White other	66	45,361
Other	63	12,048

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Summary of Development goals for 4 to 5 year olds By ethnicity Summary

This data shows that, in the 2018 to 2019 school year:

• 71% of pupils met the expected standard in development in the early years foundation stage (when they are usually 5 years old)
• 78% of pupils from the Indian ethnic group met the expected standard, the highest percentage out of all ethnic groups
• the figures for the Chinese (76%), Mixed White and Asian (75%), White Irish (74%), White British (73%), and Mixed Other (73%) ethnic groups were also higher than the national average
• Gypsy/Roma pupils were least likely to meet the expected standard, with 34% doing so

3. By ethnicity and eligibility for free school meals

• Location: England
• Time period: 2018 to 2019 school year
• Source: Early years foundation stage profile results: 2018 to 2019

Percentage of 4 to 5 year olds who met the expected standard in development, and total number of pupils, by ethnicity and eligibility for free school meals (FSM)

	All other pupils		FSM eligible
Ethnicity	All other pupils %	All other pupils Pupils	FSM eligible %	FSM eligible Pupils
All	73	549,204	55	89,742
Asian
Bangladeshi	68	8,564	62	1,648
Indian	78	19,646	66	717
Pakistani	65	23,627	60	3,514
Asian other	70	10,210	58	1,259
Black
Black African	69	17,016	64	4,416
Black Caribbean	70	3,730	61	1,540
Black other	67	3,382	61	1,052
Chinese	77	2,789	67	213
Mixed
Mixed White/Asian	78	8,943	59	1,362
Mixed White/Black African	73	4,592	60	1,185
Mixed White/Black Caribbean	73	6,874	59	2,940
Mixed other	75	13,072	60	2,717
White
White British	76	350,353	53	59,322
White Irish	78	1,354	49	197
Gypsy/Roma	35	1,521	33	630
Irish Traveller	47	360	29	305
White other	66	42,489	55	2,872
Other	65	9,646	56	2,402

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Summary of Development goals for 4 to 5 year olds By ethnicity and eligibility for free school meals Summary

Eligibility for free school meals (FSM) is used as an indicator of deprivation by the Department for Education.

This data shows that, in the 2018 to 2019 school year:

• 55% of FSM-eligible pupils met the expected standard, compared with 73% of non-FSM pupils
• in every ethnic group, FSM-eligible pupils were less likely to meet the expected standard than non-FSM pupils
• among FSM-eligible pupils, those from the Chinese ethnic group were the most likely out of all ethnic groups to meet the expected standard (at 67%)
• Traveller of Irish Heritage pupils were the least likely out of all ethnic groups to meet the expected standard (at 29%)
• the figures for the White British (53%), White Irish (49%), and Gypsy and Roma (33%) ethnic groups were also lower than the national average
• White Irish pupils had the biggest attainment gap between FSM-eligible (49%) and non-FSM pupils (78%)
• Gypsy and Roma pupils had the smallest attainment gap between FSM-eligible (33%) and non-FSM pupils (35%)

4. By ethnicity and area

• Location: England
• Time period: 2018 to 2019 school year
• Source: Early years foundation stage profile results: 2018 to 2019

Percentage of 4 to 5 year olds who met the expected standard in development, by ethnicity and local authority

Local authority	All	Asian	Black	Chinese	Mixed	White
	%	%	%	%	%	%
All England	71	69	68	76	72	72
Barking and Dagenham	70	70	73	67	70	69
Barnet	73	76	71	80	74	76
Barnsley	69	64	83		77	69
Bath and North East Somerset	73	67	50	63	68	74
Bedford Borough	68	64	64		69	69
Bexley	75	76	74	88	78	76
Birmingham	66	67	67	75	69	67
Blackburn with Darwen	66	67	75		62	67
Blackpool	67	44	71	60	83	67
Bolton	66	66	56	68	68	67
Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole	73	78	74	67	69	75
Bracknell Forest	76	74	78	64	83	76
Bradford	67	66	61	71	68	68
Brent	71	76	68	90	76	72
Brighton and Hove	71	63	65	53	75	72
Bristol City of	70	65	59	82	71	72
Bromley	77	81	67	89	79	79
Buckinghamshire	74	66	64	73	75	76
Bury	70	64	57	75	69	73
Calderdale	69	58	56	43	75	72
Cambridgeshire	70	67	64	76	72	70
Camden	72	72	69	78	77	73
Central Bedfordshire	72	73	58	93	68	72
Cheshire East	71	73	57	63	68	72
Cheshire West and Chester	71	74	57	43	70	71
City of London	85	86	N/A*	N/A*		91
Cornwall	69	58	100	64	79	69
Coventry	69	71	69	84	69	68
Croydon	73	74	71	100	76	74
Cumbria	70	55	71	71	66	70
Darlington	70	63	89		61	71
Derby	70	74	68	73	75	69
Derbyshire	69	62	64	81	67	70
Devon	72	69	85	50	71	73
Doncaster	71	75	58	50	75	72
Dorset	71	52	57		72	72
Dudley	65	60	68	73	65	66
Durham	71	68	73	90	71	71
Ealing	70	74	67	75	72	73
East Riding of Yorkshire	73	58	75	N/A*	68	73
East Sussex	76	72	55	80	77	76
Enfield	69	81	66	76	76	68
Essex	73	73	67	80	74	74
Gateshead	72	74	59	69	75	73
Gloucestershire	71	57	56	65	71	72
Greenwich	78	77	76	88	82	78
Hackney	68	81	71	94	76	79
Halton	65			N/A*	68	65
Hammersmith and Fulham	72	74	64	78	68	77
Hampshire	76	75	72	77	73	77
Haringey	74	76	69	76	77	77
Harrow	74	78	64	75	77	73
Hartlepool	71	65	57		78	72
Havering	71	73	69	76	76	71
Herefordshire	75	70			83	76
Hertfordshire	72	69	64	78	71	73
Hillingdon	74	78	73	85	78	71
Hounslow	72	76	69	81	76	70
Isle of Wight	70	50			77	70
Isles of Scilly	79	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*		81
Islington	68	66	61	75	75	69
Kensington and Chelsea	68	60	61	100	74	75
Kent	73	77	73	71	76	74
Kingston Upon Hull City of	63	73	62		67	64
Kingston upon Thames	75	70	74	83	74	78
Kirklees	69	64	61	67	67	72
Knowsley	66	89	43		62	66
Lambeth	70	60	66	82	69	77
Lancashire	67	57	62	69	69	69
Leeds	66	62	59	82	66	68
Leicester	66	71	61	64	68	63
Leicestershire	71	72	65	79	70	71
Lewisham	76	74	70	76	77	82
Lincolnshire	69	73	67	86	69	69
Liverpool	64	61	59	64	62	65
Luton	67	68	73	80	69	66
Manchester	64	64	67	59	67	66
Medway	73	70	73	57	76	73
Merton	75	72	72	87	78	77
Middlesbrough	61	62	73	50	57	62
Milton Keynes	73	80	66	84	77	72
Newcastle upon Tyne	70	66	60	88	74	72
Newham	74	77	72	85	79	73
Norfolk	72	66	76	89	78	72
North East Lincolnshire	70	71	60		73	71
North Lincolnshire	70	69	45		69	72
North Somerset	74	61	77		74	75
North Tyneside	71	67	60	69	71	71
North Yorkshire	72	56	72	44	76	72
Northamptonshire	70	71	72	70	66	70
Northumberland	74	67			70	75
Nottingham	65	67	68	73	67	64
Nottinghamshire	69	63	67	61	68	70
Oldham	66	60	69	54	67	71
Oxfordshire	73	66	64	79	72	74
Peterborough	65	61	63	76	72	65
Plymouth	68	71	82	56	69	68
Portsmouth	69	59	69	82	72	70
Reading	67	72	60	87	72	69
Redbridge	75	79	70	84	78	70
Redcar and Cleveland	70	75			74	70
Richmond upon Thames	80	78	64	89	80	82
Rochdale	64	61	58	77	63	67
Rotherham	69	66	64	81	67	70
Rutland	78		67	N/A*	81	78
Salford	66	66	62	90	66	69
Sandwell	65	68	65	72	67	65
Sefton	68	53	46	67	73	68
Sheffield	70	68	69	79	67	72
Shropshire	72	58	88		86	72
Slough	73	77	72		74	68
Solihull	70	74	49	73	63	72
Somerset	71	68	63	78	69	72
South Gloucestershire	76	75	73	84	73	77
South Tyneside	72	63	42	60	68	73
Southampton	70	69	74	81	74	70
Southend-on-Sea	73	65	67	92	75	75
Southwark	73	71	70	77	78	79
St. Helens	68	50	67		69	69
Staffordshire	73	68	66	74	73	74
Stockport	69	62	52	61	63	71
Stockton-on-Tees	73	64	74	63	72	74
Stoke-on-Trent	65	61	65	63	63	68
Suffolk	69	65	61	86	69	71
Sunderland	72	65	58	71	66	73
Surrey	78	74	72	89	81	78
Sutton	72	76	66	81	70	72
Swindon	70	73	75	75	73	70
Tameside	65	57	48	67	66	68
Telford and Wrekin	70	60	72		77	70
Thurrock	72	69	76	50	77	72
Torbay	70	46	0		79	71
Tower Hamlets	69	69	73	72	69	69
Trafford	74	68	60	78	69	77
Wakefield	70	61	56	70	69	71
Walsall	66	66	61	85	65	67
Waltham Forest	76	74	71	78	80	78
Wandsworth	76	72	66	77	73	81
Warrington	73	67	63	71	71	73
Warwickshire	71	73	61	93	72	71
West Berkshire	74	78	65		76	75
West Sussex	71	64	61	54	73	72
Westminster	70	77	70	86	68	76
Wigan	66	51	57	75	67	67
Wiltshire	71	71	67	75	68	72
Windsor and Maidenhead	74	68	86		74	76
Wirral	67	59	83	63	75	68
Wokingham	76	78	77	87	77	76
Wolverhampton	67	67	64	73	70	67
Worcestershire	71	66	62	80	72	72
York	74	55	85	90	69	75

^* Not applicable Data withheld because a small sample size makes it unreliable

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Summary of Development goals for 4 to 5 year olds By ethnicity and area Summary

The summary below only includes figures based on enough pupils to make reliable generalisations.

This data shows that, in the 2018 to 2019 school year:

• out of all local authorities, Asian pupils were most likely to meet the expected standard in Knowsley (89%) and least likely to in Blackpool (44%)
• Black pupils were most likely to meet the expected standard in Cornwall (100%) and least likely to in Torbay (0%)
• 100% of Chinese pupils met the expected standard in Croydon and Kensington and Chelsea – they were least likely to meet the standard in Calderdale, and Cheshire West and Chester (both 43%)
• pupils with Mixed ethnicity were most likely to meet the expected standard in Shropshire (86%) and least likely to in Middlesbrough (57%)
• White pupils were most likely to meet the expected standard in the City of London (91%) and least likely to in Middlesbrough (62%)

5. By ethnicity and gender

• Location: England
• Time period: 2018 to 2019 school year
• Source: Early years foundation stage profile results: 2018 to 2019

Percentage of 4 to 5 year olds who met the expected standard in development, and total number of pupils, by ethnicity and gender

	Boys		Girls
Ethnicity	Boys %	Boys All pupils	Girls %	Girls All pupils
All	64	327,425	78	311,521
Asian
Bangladeshi	60	5,219	75	4,993
Indian	72	10,461	84	9,902
Pakistani	57	13,957	72	13,184
Asian other	61	5,900	77	5,569
Black
Black African	60	10,958	77	10,474
Black Caribbean	60	2,716	75	2,554
Black other	58	2,262	74	2,172
Chinese	72	1,589	81	1,413
Mixed
Mixed White/Asian	69	5,281	82	5,024
Mixed White/Black African	64	2,970	78	2,807
Mixed White/Black Caribbean	61	4,913	77	4,901
Mixed other	66	8,186	79	7,603
White
White British	66	209,870	79	199,805
White Irish	67	774	81	777
Gypsy/Roma	27	1,070	41	1,081
Irish Traveller	31	330	47	335
White other	59	23,296	73	22,065
Other	56	6,159	70	5,889

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Summary of Development goals for 4 to 5 year olds By ethnicity and gender Summary

This data shows that, in the 2018 to 2019 school year:

• 78% of girls and 64% of boys met the expected standard in development
• in every ethnic group, girls were more likely than boys to meet the expected standard
• girls from the Indian ethnic group were the most likely to meet the expected standard (84%)
• Gypsy/Roma boys were the least likely to (27%)
• the biggest gap between girls and boys was in the Black African ethnic group, where 77% of girls and 60% of boys met the standard
• the smallest gap between girls and boys was in the Chinese ethnic group, where 81% of girls and 72% of boys met the standard
• among White British pupils, 79% of girls and 66% of boys met the expected standard

6. By ethnicity, gender and eligibility for free school meals

• Location: England
• Time period: 2018 to 2019 school year
• Source: Early years foundation stage profile results: 2018 to 2019

Percentage of 4 to 5 year olds who met the expected standard in development by ethnicity, gender and eligibility for free school meals (FSM)

	Boys		Girls
Ethnicity	Boys FSM	Boys Non- FSM	Girls FSM	Girls Non- FSM
All	47	67	63	80
Asian	53	64	70	78
Bangladeshi	53	61	72	76
Indian	59	72	73	84
Pakistani	52	58	69	73
Asian other	50	63	67	78
Black	55	61	71	78
Black African	55	61	72	78
Black Caribbean	53	63	69	78
Black other	54	59	68	76
Chinese	67	73	66	82
Mixed	52	69	68	82
Mixed White/Asian	52	72	67	84
Mixed White/Black African	54	66	67	81
Mixed White/Black Caribbean	51	65	67	81
Mixed other	53	69	69	82
White	45	68	61	81
White British	45	70	62	82
White Irish	33	72	68	83
Gypsy/Roma	27	26	38	43
Irish Traveller	21	40	38	53
White other	47	60	63	73
Other	49	58	63	72

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Summary of Development goals for 4 to 5 year olds By ethnicity, gender and eligibility for free school meals Summary

Eligibility for free school meals (FSM) is used as an indicator of deprivation by the Department for Education.

This data shows that:

• 63% of FSM-eligible girls and 47% of boys met the expected standard, compared with 80% of non-FSM girls and 67% of boys
• in every ethnic group, FSM-eligible girls were less likely to meet the expected standard than non-FSM girls
• in every ethnic group except Gypsy and Roma, FSM-eligible boys were less likely to meet the expected standard than non-FSM boys
• in every ethnic group except Chinese, FSM-eligible girls were more likely than FSM-eligible boys to meet the standard
• among FSM-eligible pupils, girls from the Indian ethnic group were the most likely to meet the expected standard (73%)
• White Irish Traveller FSM-eligible boys were the least likely to meet the expected standard (21%)
• the White Irish ethnic group had the biggest gap between FSM-eligible girls (68%) and boys (33%), at 35 percentage points
• the White Irish ethnic group also had the biggest gap between FSM-eligible boys (33%) and non-FSM boys (72%), at 39 percentage points
• the White British ethnic group had the biggest gap between FSM-eligible girls (62%) and non-FSM girls (82%), at 20 percentage points

7. By ethnicity, gender and area

• Location: England
• Time period: 2018 to 2019 school year
• Source: Early years foundation stage profile results: 2018 to 2019

Percentage of 4 to 5 year olds who met the expected standard in development, by ethnicity, gender and local authority

	All		Asian		Black		Chinese		Mixed		White
Local Authority	All Girls	All Boys	Asian Girls	Asian Boys	Black Girls	Black Boys	Chinese Girls	Chinese Boys	Mixed Girls	Mixed Boys	White Girls	White Boys
Barking and Dagenham	78	62	77	65	80	66	100	50	81	60	78	60
Barnet	80	67	83	70	78	66	89	72	83	66	82	70
Barnsley	78	60	50	75	89	78			90	66	78	60
Bath and North East Somerset	78	68	67	67	67		50		75	61	79	69
Bedford Borough	75	61	70	57	76	55			77	63	75	63
Bexley	82	69	84	68	80	69	88	87	85	70	82	70
Birmingham	74	59	75	59	75	58	70	79	76	62	74	60
Blackburn with Darwen	75	58	78	57	71	78			76	50	74	60
Blackpool	73	61	56	39	100				76	88	73	61
Bolton	74	57	76	57	69	45	71	60	73	64	76	59
Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole	81	66	83	73	94	56		100	76	64	83	67
Bracknell Forest	82	70	81	67	81	75		63	92	68	82	71
Bradford	74	60	73	58	66	57			76	58	75	62
Brent	77	65	81	72	74	62	83		85	66	80	66
Brighton and Hove	77	66	58	67	68	61	75	29	82	69	79	66
Bristol City of	76	63	75	55	66	51	100	70	78	65	79	65
Bromley	84	71	87	75	78	55	93	85	85	73	86	73
Buckinghamshire	80	67	71	60	73	55	70	75	82	69	83	69
Bury	77	65	79	50	71	44		75	78	62	78	68
Calderdale	77	61	68	49	57	55			82	68	80	65
Cambridgeshire	77	63	76	57	73	57	80	73	79	67	78	63
Camden	80	65	80	66	76	62	86		85	70	80	66
Central Bedfordshire	79	65	79	65	70	49	100	89	81	55	79	66
Cheshire East	78	65	81	64	69	47		60	69	68	79	66
Cheshire West and Chester	78	64	81	69	75	46		20	76	64	78	64
City of London	95	78	100	78	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*			100	83
Cornwall	77	61	73	36	100		60	67	83	75	77	61
Coventry	74	63	78	65	76	63	91	75	71	67	74	63
Croydon	79	68	79	69	79	64	100	100	82	71	79	70
Cumbria	77	62	53	60		67		67	63	69	78	62
Darlington	77	64	78	48	100			N/A*	67	57	77	65
Derby	77	62	80	67	77	59	50	89	85	63	77	62
Derbyshire	76	62	66	58	71	50	67	90	76	58	77	63
Devon	78	66	65	75	100	71	67	33	75	67	79	67
Doncaster	78	64	81	67	70	48			80	70	79	65
Dorset	77	65	63	41					83	63	78	66
Dudley	73	57	69	51	73	64		63	74	57	75	57
Durham	78	64	61	73	75	71		100	86	56	78	64
Ealing	77	64	81	67	76	58	86	67	84	62	78	69
East Riding of Yorkshire	81	66	71	40			N/A*	N/A*	79	59	81	66
East Sussex	83	68	84	62	68	42		88	84	69	83	69
Enfield	76	62	86	75	74	57	80	75	78	74	76	60
Essex	80	67	82	65	73	60	76	84	80	67	80	68
Gateshead	79	66	72	75	62	58	69	70	72	77	80	66
Gloucestershire	78	64	67	48	56	56	75	56	76	67	79	65
Greenwich	84	72	88	68	83	69	90	86	88	76	83	73
Hackney	76	61	86	74	80	62	100	86	83	70	82	75
Halton	75	56					N/A*	N/A*	85	52	75	57
Hammersmith and Fulham	80	65	86	58	75	55	100		70	66	83	72
Hampshire	83	70	85	64	79	65	74	79	80	67	83	71
Haringey	81	67	86	66	78	60	93	60	81	74	83	71
Harrow	80	68	83	72	74	54	69		83	71	79	67
Hartlepool	79	64	73	60				N/A*	100	64	79	64
Havering	78	64	83	65	77	59	70	86	80	72	78	64
Herefordshire	80	71	77	57	N/A*		N/A*		89	77	81	72
Hertfordshire	78	66	73	64	73	55	76	79	79	64	80	67
Hillingdon	80	68	85	72	80	67	75	100	83	74	78	65
Hounslow	78	67	84	69	72	66	75	88	80	73	76	65
Isle of Wight	76	64		33					100	61	76	64
Isles of Scilly	73	85	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*		73	92
Islington	76	61	80	52	68	54	80	71	82	69	78	61
Kensington and Chelsea	76	61	60	60	71	53	100	N/A*	84	67	81	69
Kent	80	67	88	67	83	64	93	62	84	69	80	68
Kingston Upon Hull City of	71	56	76	71	74	53		N/A*	75	58	72	57
Kingston upon Thames	83	68	80	61	89	63	84	83	84	64	83	73
Kirklees	76	62	72	58	66	57		67	72	63	79	65
Knowsley	74	58	100	82	50	33		N/A*	64	58	75	58
Lambeth	76	65	59	61	73	58	100	60	78	60	82	72
Lancashire	74	60	64	49	69	57	64	75	77	62	76	62
Leeds	73	59	69	54	64	54	100	71	73	58	75	61
Leicester	72	60	79	64	66	57	62	67	74	61	69	57
Leicestershire	78	64	81	62	88	49	91	72	78	62	78	65
Lewisham	82	70	83	67	78	63	87	71	83	71	86	78
Lincolnshire	76	62	80	67	75	60			72	66	77	62
Liverpool	71	57	70	52	68	52	84	47	73	51	72	59
Luton	75	60	76	60	80	66			75	63	74	59
Manchester	72	57	71	58	74	60	58	60	75	59	74	58
Medway	78	67	69	71	81	64			77	76	79	67
Merton	81	69	80	65	77	68	92	83	89	67	82	72
Middlesbrough	67	56	63	61	76	70	60	40	56	59	70	55
Milton Keynes	80	66	84	76	75	57	100	71	86	67	79	66
Newcastle upon Tyne	76	64	71	62	70	51	81	92	76	73	78	65
Newham	81	68	82	71	82	62	80	89	87	71	83	65
Norfolk	79	65	71	62	90	63	100	79	82	75	79	65
North East Lincolnshire	78	63	100	20					82	66	78	63
North Lincolnshire	77	64	75	65		44			71	67	78	65
North Somerset	80	69	78	44	80	75			77	70	80	69
North Tyneside	77	66	89	55	80	50	40	88	74	68	77	66
North Yorkshire	79	65	63	48	71	72		33	83	69	79	66
Northamptonshire	76	63	75	67	84	61	88	60	75	59	77	64
Northumberland	82	67	82	50					70	69	82	68
Nottingham	73	57	74	59	79	60	90	63	72	61	73	56
Nottinghamshire	77	63	68	58	65	69	74	52	79	57	78	64
Oldham	74	58	68	52	82	55	50	60	78	55	78	63
Oxfordshire	80	66	74	59	78	49	75	82	81	63	81	68
Peterborough	72	58	69	53	73	55	90	57	87	59	72	59
Plymouth	74	62	78	63	94	67		40	73	66	74	63
Portsmouth	75	63	70	50	73	64	88	78	78	67	77	63
Reading	74	60	81	61	68	53	90	80	81	64	73	64
Redbridge	81	69	85	72	77	64	83	85	84	74	76	65
Redcar and Cleveland	75	64		86	N/A*		N/A*		68	82	76	64
Richmond upon Thames	85	76	84	72	77	47	93	86	85	76	88	77
Rochdale	71	57	67	56	65	53	67	86	81	46	73	61
Rotherham	77	61	75	57	92	40	82	80	74	59	77	63
Rutland	81	75					N/A*	N/A*	67	100	82	75
Salford	74	58	71	62	75	49	100		78	55	77	62
Sandwell	72	58	73	63	74	57	100	59	75	60	73	57
Sefton	75	61	64	36	80	25	86	40	69	77	76	61
Sheffield	76	63	76	60	74	63	75	81	76	59	79	65
Shropshire	80	65	71	50					91	81	80	65
Slough	80	66	85	70	85	63	N/A*		79	69	74	63
Solihull	76	65	83	66	58	39	80	70	74	53	76	67
Somerset	78	64	86	55	86	44		67	72	66	79	65
South Gloucestershire	82	70	78	72	95	50	100	67	83	62	83	71
South Tyneside	81	65	75	54	67	17			71	67	81	66
Southampton	79	62	77	63	91	59	89	75	85	63	79	63
Southend-on-Sea	79	68	74	56	77	59	100	80	77	74	80	69
Southwark	80	67	88	57	79	61	71	83	83	74	85	72
St. Helens	76	61	40	56	57	75			67	71	77	61
Staffordshire	80	67	76	61	73	59	79	71	78	69	81	67
Stockport	75	64	71	55	64	40	82	42	70	56	76	66
Stockton-on-Tees	80	67	75	54	92	61			73	71	81	68
Stoke-on-Trent	73	58	71	52	71	58	79	20	70	57	75	61
Suffolk	78	61	82	47	77	46			78	61	79	62
Sunderland	80	65	77	55	83	46		67	66	66	81	65
Surrey	84	72	82	67	81	60	97	83	86	75	85	72
Sutton	79	65	78	73	75	58	81	82	79	62	80	64
Swindon	76	64	80	66	87	57	83	67	81	61	75	65
Tameside	75	56	66	47	66	31	67	67	75	57	77	59
Telford and Wrekin	76	63	63	57	85	55			83	71	76	64
Thurrock	79	65	82	58	84	69	57		79	75	79	65
Torbay	77	63	63	20					78	82	78	64
Tower Hamlets	77	61	77	60	81	64	86	61	78	60	78	60
Trafford	81	68	77	59	69	52	85	72	76	62	84	72
Wakefield	78	62	69	53	69	46	71		84	59	79	63
Walsall	74	57	74	58	77	50	89		75	55	75	58
Waltham Forest	80	71	79	69	78	64	100	56	84	77	83	75
Wandsworth	82	70	83	63	71	62	100	57	78	67	86	77
Warrington	79	67	69	65	62	67	88	50	75	67	80	67
Warwickshire	79	64	81	66	74	50	100	88	80	63	79	64
West Berkshire	80	69	94	67	67	64			80	71	80	69
West Sussex	78	64	70	59	65	57	55	53	80	67	79	65
Westminster	77	63	80	74	86	55	89	80	79	58	80	72
Wigan	74	60	59	44	69	47	78		75	61	74	60
Wiltshire	78	65	87	57	70	63	80		77	58	79	66
Windsor and Maidenhead	78	70	74	63	83	88		N/A*	84	63	79	74
Wirral	74	61	60	58			40	73	84	65	75	61
Wokingham	81	71	84	73	79	76	86	88	84	72	82	70
Wolverhampton	73	61	74	62	73	56	80	70	75	66	73	61
Worcestershire	77	65	73	59	71	50	80	80	75	70	78	66
York	79	69	54	56	83	86		83	72	64	81	70

^* Not applicable Data withheld because a small sample size makes it unreliable

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Summary of Development goals for 4 to 5 year olds By ethnicity, gender and area Summary

Figures for the Asian, Black and Chinese ethnic groups are based on small numbers of pupils. Because of this, they're more likely to change from year to year.

The summary below only includes figures based on enough pupils to make reliable generalisations.

This data shows that:

• girls were more likely to meet the expected standard than boys in every local authority apart from Isles of Scilly
• among Asian pupils, girls were more likely than boys to meet the expected standard in 134 out of 146 local authorities where data was available
• the biggest gap was in North East Lincolnshire, where 100% of Asian girls and 20% of Asian boys met the standard
• among Black pupils, girls were more likely than boys to meet the expected standard in 122 out of 130 local authorities where data was available
• the biggest gap was in Sefton, where 80% of Black girls and 25% of Black boys met the standard
• among pupils from the Chinese ethnic group, girls were more likely than boys to meet the expected standard in 57 out of 87 local authorities where data was available
• the biggest gap was in Stoke-on-Trent, where 79% of girls and 20% of boys from the Chinese ethnic group met the standard
• among pupils with Mixed ethnicity, girls were more likely than boys to meet the expected standard in 139 out of 149 local authorities where data was available
• the biggest gap was in Isle of Wight, where 100% of girls and 61% of boys with Mixed ethnicity met the standard
• among White pupils, girls were more likely than boys to meet the expected standard in all local authorities except the Isles of Scilly
• the biggest gap between White girls and boys (18 percentage points) was found in 7 local authorities: Halton, Tameside, Barnsley, Dudley, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Barking and Dagenham

8. Methodology

The early years foundation stage profile is an assessment by teachers of their pupils’ development. Teachers assess their pupils at the end of the school year in which the children turn 5 years old.

The dataset is a statutory annual collection of data from all local authorities in England, which runs from June to the beginning of September.

The dataset for the 2018 to 2019 school year includes valid results for 638,946 pupils.

Ethnicity isn’t collected as part of the early years foundation stage profile. So early years data is matched to data on the national pupil database to get information broken down by ethnic group.

Ethnicity data on the national pupil database comes from the school census.

There were some discrepancies between the 2 sets of data. Of the 638,995 pupils with valid early years results, 638,946 were found in the national pupil database.

Of these 638,946 pupils, ethnicity was not found for 22,487 pupils (4%).

Free school meals (FSM):

Pupils are included in the figures for free school meals if their families claimed eligibility for FSM at the time of the annual spring school census. This definition includes all pupils who were eligible to receive free school meals, not only those who actually received free school meals.

Pupils not eligible for free school meals or unclassified pupils are described as ‘Non-FSM’ or ‘All other pupils’.

Parents are able to claim FSM if they receive a qualifying benefit like Jobseeker’s Allowance.

FSM is used as an indicator of disadvantage. Not all eligible parents apply for FSM, and families who don’t quite reach the eligibility threshold for FSM may still be suffering deprivation.

There were 89,742 pupils eligible for FSM in early years foundation stage (14% of all pupils).

Rounding

Percentages are rounded to the nearest whole number.

Related publications

Statistics: early years foundation stage profile – includes previous years' data.

Quality and methodology information

9. Data sources

Source

Early years foundation stage profile results: 2018 to 2019

Type of data

Administrative data

Type of statistic

National Statistics

Publisher

Department for Education

Note on corrections or updates

A revised version of the data, which added breakdowns for pupil characteristics, has been used. The original publication was released on 17/10/2019.

Publication frequency

Yearly

Purpose of data source

The early years foundation stage profile aims to:

• support pupils' transition to key stage 1 (which they take from 5 to 7 years old)
• help teachers to plan an effective, responsive and appropriate curriculum for all pupils
• inform parents and carers about their child’s development against early learning goals

10. Download the data

Early Learning Goals 2019 -- Local Authority - Spreadsheet (csv) 577 KB

This file contains the following: measure, time, time_type, ethnicity, ethnicity_type, geography, geography_type, geography_name, gender, gender_type, value, denominator, value note and geography name

Early Learning Goals 2019 -- National - Spreadsheet (csv) 30 KB

This file contains the following: measure, time, time type, ethnicity, gender, FSM eligible, percentage value, denominator

Publication release date: 12 February 2020

full page history

1. 12 February 2020 Updated with the latest available data (for the 2018 to 2019 school year).

From: Department for Education

Previous editions:

1. 4 October 2019
2. 2 March 2018

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