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UK comp tops the PISA charts

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Refluxsux · 16/12/2016 23:31

Not too shabby for a London Comp!

www.alexandrapark.school/news/aps-news/640-aps-students-triumph-in-pisa-tests

www.google.co.uk/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/38262047?client=safari

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Manumission · 17/12/2016 18:50

All those semi-suburbs are getting worse IMO. But I'm an escapee so I have an escapee's perspective after decades in London. Others differ of course.

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Refluxsux · 17/12/2016 18:43

Why not Manumission? Muswell Hill isn't exactly rough.

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TalkinPeace · 17/12/2016 18:36

reflux
yes, you can download the full dataset from the pisa site - I was going to but its 414MB and I have paying work to do Smile

Manumission · 17/12/2016 18:25

The school sounds astonished.

I wouldn't put any of my DC in a comp in that area. Not dead.

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Refluxsux · 17/12/2016 18:20

Do they release the individual school scores? I wonder where they landed against the other individual schools?

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TalkinPeace · 17/12/2016 17:40

The school's scores were higher than the average in any other country, way, way ahead of the UK average and statistically ahead of Singapore

they did incredibly well.

I'd love to know how India would do if they took part

IrenetheQuaint · 17/12/2016 17:25

This doesn't mean that Alexandra Park scored highest of any school in the tests, just that it was above all national averages. I'd be surprised if it wasn't beaten by various Far Eastern schools on an individual level.

Still, great result.

TalkinPeace · 17/12/2016 17:19

How do you mean?
The 200 UK schools are from all over the country and all sectors .....
PISA have upped their game on sampling this time around

the top systems consistently are Singapore and Macau - which are City States

GreenGinger2 · 17/12/2016 17:05

So what other cities aside from London are included in that?

TalkinPeace · 17/12/2016 15:38

Interesting as the overall outcome of the PISA tests this time around shows that city kids at non selective state schools do best, all over the world

prh47bridge · 17/12/2016 08:04

Independent schools are included as well.

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Refluxsux · 17/12/2016 07:44

Does the data PISA collects come only from state schools or are independents included as well?

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RJnomore1 · 16/12/2016 23:34

Yeah it was never going to be a Scottish school was it 😬

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