Please can someone help me interpret this.
There is a published list annually of 100 top prep schools.
These include ONLY those prep schools that follow the National Curriculum and do SATS, which isn't by any means all of them.
I am trying to find out the KS 2 SATS results of the schools we are looking at for DS.
State schools publish this in an easy to understand format. But I cannot find published figures for the prep schools (as they are not legally obliged to publish them).
The list ranking the 100 best prep schools instead orders on an aggregate of KS2 L5 scores between 2009 - 2011, and comes up with a number to rank. But I don't understand how this aggregate is reached or what it means. So top scorers have an aggregate around 650 and bottom third around 350.
Please can someone tell me how I work out what this number means so I can understand on average what percentage of the year group achieved L5. Does each L5 equal a number of points? Is the information provided of any use if I don't know the size of the year group?
I know sats aren't everything. But it would be helpful to know if our local state schools are achieving similar to some of the unselective prep schools we are looking at. That would be quite telling, given the advantage of the prep schools and the fact that they ram homework down their throat. I find venturing into this prep world very disconcerting and largely smoke and mirrors.
Thank you!
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preposterous · 23/04/2014 06:47
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