KS1 sats results - all C's - is this bad ?

[jessica36]

My daughter has brought home her school report - full of praise, which is nice as she worked very hard this year.

She had KS1 sats and has been given 3c in eveything. I don`t understand these results - I always assumed c are worse than a & b, but it just does not add up with the actual report. Have the teachers made a mistake ?

No- it just means a low level 3 as opposed to an established 3 (3b) or very secure 3 (3a).
National standard is to reach 2b, so she's above average (don't know if that's good for her ability or not, only you and her teacher k ow that)

Sounds very good indeed especially if young for the year.

A level 3 is the bit that is very good. The c is only the sublevel.

So she could have goat a Level 1, 2 or 3 ( with 1 being the worst and 3 being the best) and then in each level she could have got an a, b or c.

So she's approximately in the top 25% of the country......

At our school, we would only publish level 3 at Yr 2, not the sub level c,b,a.
If she has got 3c then she has done really really well.
As already said she is 2 sub levels above the national standard for her age.

At KS1 you either get a 1, 2c, 2b, 2a, or a 3 - so I don't know what your school mean by giving a 3c. There is no such thing at KS1.

I'm the data analyst at a school, my job depends on getting this sort of thing right, and if she has 3's in everything she is obviously bright, but the mark-schemes at KS1 don't differentiate between sub-levels at Level 3.

But the teacher assessments do, diabolo - and the Y2 assessment is a teacher assessment. The tests are only a small part.

The only thing that a school has to report at level 3 is just that, a level 3. But within school, for tracking purposes and from the many pieces of evidence the teacher uses, the teacher will most certainly subdivide the level.

I am very surprised that your data analysis within school only uses a broad level judgement - the majority of schools will report a broad level as required, but grade it much more finely for data analysis purposes.