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National GCSE Performance data now published!

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demimore · 20/10/2022 10:08

You can look up your school's 2022 GCSE results and see how they compare with others in your area and nationally here: www.gov.uk/school-performance-tables

(Though it keeps crashing - lots of people trying to do the same!) 🙂

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LouisCatorze · 21/10/2022 17:31

I noticed that the Ofsted status of some schools hasn't been updated (tut tut to whoever is in charge of the website). It's good in a way that they've included the 'caveat' about not comparing schools, as the variation in 'teaching provision' across schools during the first and indeed second lockdown (when they were in Year 10) was considerable.

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demimore · 21/10/2022 05:09

Interesting the data release didn't generate much news coverage. There are articles in Schools Week and FE News but not much else. Normally it makes some mainstream headlines. Of course, all eyes were on Downing Street yesterday, not the DfE! The DfE are downplaying the release, because comparing schools post-pandemic is sensitive. They've renamed the website from "Compare Schools" to "Find and check performance", and you can now only check schools individually rather than being given a ranked list.

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Sazzlesw2 · 20/10/2022 17:08

Thanks, confirms that we are putting the schools in the right order for us.

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demimore · 20/10/2022 15:34

PuttingDownRoots · 20/10/2022 13:36

Thanks. My DDs school had said they had had their best results ever and it looks like they are outperforming other local schools.

Yep, lots of schools got their "best results ever" this year, at least partly because the results were pegged halfway between 2019 results and the inflated 2021 Teacher Assessed Grades (TAGs). So it's good to see how different schools' results compare with each other, and nationally.

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PuttingDownRoots · 20/10/2022 13:36

Thanks. My DDs school had said they had had their best results ever and it looks like they are outperforming other local schools.