KS1 results...tell me more

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I am a new parent governor at DD's school, we were given data recently which shows that for the past 4 years the school has been performing 'significantly below' average in the KS1 sats.

Should this be a big concern for me as a parent and governor? School is currently satisfactory, ofsted are looming and i have been told the school has been improving for the past two years but these statistics just don't seem to show that.

Is this quite common? We have been informed by HT that the children are improving as they should relative to their starting points and it is being closely monitored but these statistics have shocked me as a parent.

Crazymum, it was NUT action and NAHT action (who are traditionally moderate, and not given to striking at all). NUT action was never even a subject at our school, even though most are NUT, because the responsibility to administer the tests lay with our Head, who is an NAHT member.