I had all but decided on the order in which we would put down preferred schools for DD2 when the latest results were issued by the government for 2016 results, and now I am in a quandary.
Our favourite schools GCSE % score has gone down by a few percentage points, and school number 2s results have increased by almost 10%. However the Progress 8 score for our favourite school is 0.4 and that of the other school is 0.013.
I realise there are many other factors to take into account when choosing schools, but whereas these two schools had results that were on a par in 2015, the big difference in results has shaken my confidence in our current ranking of the schools.
But maybe it is better to go to a school with a better Progress 8 score than one that has done better than expected in their GCSE results? Does anyone have an opinion on this? Many thanks.
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Stargazey44 · 16/10/2016 14:31
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