When does government release school key stage 4 data?

[QuarkBlisterbum]

Just that really -want to compare data across schools in area and wondering when the data for 23/24 will be released

24th October: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/secondary-school-performance-data-in-england-2024

Thanks for sharing, I was wondering this!

Of course, they've changed systems (gone "in-house") so everything is a wee bit messed up this year. (For example, most remarks won't show in the October results.)

When do they release key stage 5 data. I want to compare data across schools in sixth form?

I think it will be in February. You can register for an alert whenever the page is updated: www.gov.uk/government/statistics/16-to-18-school-college-and-multi-academy-trust-performance-data-in-england-2022-to-2023#full-publication-update-history

Unfortunately the publication date for this seems to have slipped - now showing as November/December due to faulty data. Annoying!

www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/secondary-school-performance-data-in-england-2024

It won't be on the planned date. They changed from a previous contractor who had compiled the data perfectly well for years to take it in house and promptly screwed it up so that it came out late and then an additional entire week was lost being unable to access the data and check it - and once you could get in (the last day of school before half term for many), huge chunks of data were missing - like hundreds of children in Y11 and Y13.

Hopefully, the 72 hour extension (again, most of the time being when schools are closed and many staff aren't contracted to work) will be further extended once somebody at the DfE realises state funded schools have things called 'closure periods' where they can't deal with hundreds of rows of nonsensical data to check and fill in lengthy online forms for each individual qualification error or absence.

ETA: They're blaming NCFE for screwing up, but that's nowhere near the true scale of what's gone wrong.

Yikes! Ah well, I always think it's bad timing to release it just a few days before the deadline for secondary transfer applications. Nobody should be making last minute preference switches based on a single year's data.

It has been extended further - to the 7th November I think.

Am I right in thinking this will be the last "progress" score for a few years?

That's nice. Just at the same time as the Autumn Census, the Staff Census, GCSE resits, dealing with the first data drops, Year 7 & 11 Reports, set changes and the first coordinated Admissions file download from the LA.

(Thank you, I didn't log on today as it's supposed to be my first couple of days off since the first week of August, so I missed that).

@TickingAlongNicely Yup. Nothing for the 2020 and 2021 cohorts, as they didn't do SATs - schools will still end up doing all the work as usual, just internally on the basis of CATs or MidSys instead. Unless somebody at the DfE suddenly has a bright idea at the last moment...

Yeah. I at least am not responsible for the staff census, and our county seems to ignore admissions until March.

@QuarkBlisterbum the DfE website now has a new release date: 5th December ... https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/key-stage-4-performance-2024

@justatux thank you

It's published now, and the "Compare Schools" website has been updated with the 2024 data: https://www.gov.uk/school-performance-tables

Happy to see DDs school still doing well. (0.64 progress 8, 57.4% English and Maths at 5+, 75% at 4+). I know this isn't a lot compared to the academic schools, but its good for a normal, local school.

Similarly pleased to see the secondary we're hoping to send DD do really well - since we are going to have to move area for the privilege, this is reassuring!