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School with 70% pass rate "actually" has 0% - have you seen this?

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roisin · 04/02/2012 20:43

BBC article here

"In one academy, 70% of pupils got five good GCSEs, but this reduced to zero when equivalents were discounted."

So what they are saying is that EVERY child in that Academy is doing one of these inflated "worth 2, 4, 6" courses, eg COPE; presumably purely to try and manipulate the league tables. But actually NONE of the students are leaving with a handful of decent qualifications?! Shock

I wonder where this school is?

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senua · 04/02/2012 21:08

I've been scrolling through the performance tables and found one Academy which has 84% getting 5 GCSE (or equivHmm) at A*-C grade; 56% getting ditto including Maths+Eng. But its EBacc score is a big fat zero.

An awful lot of academies are showing as "No KS4 data available for this school" for 2011.

forward · 04/02/2012 20:59

I don't think it's unusual roisin. I went to the open evening at our local Comp, which has much improved results since the appointment of a new head, 77% 5 A*- C last year up from18% 5 years ago

I was skeptical TBH and wrote asking about the % made up of "equivalent" and his response was that the "majority" were equivalents. Went on to explain that they are a fair equivalent etc, which clearly they're not ivo recent announcements.