Sats expectations

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My DS came home today with level 6 in Maths and 5 in English and Science. I thought he could have got level 6 in Science and English too. Am I being realistic

He could have got Level 8.
Whether that is realistic or not depends on him, since we don't know his abilities, it's hard to say whether you are being realistic or not!

Depends. Is he in the top 1% or so in the country?

Well, no one at my DS's school got 6's across the board. Only two children got a level 6 in anything. So I guess it depends on whether you expected your DS to have the same ability in all subjects.

In DS's school, 15% got level 6 in maths - possibly because a teacher from the local secondary school has been teaching them every couple of weeks, as well as their own teachers carrying on teaching rather than the whole obsessing about SATs revision / practice that other schools seem to do.

Nobody got Level 6 in English.

I don't know about science - DS got a 5, but it's not his strongest 'other' subject (that would be History), and Science results are not reported to us at a 'whole school' level as Maths and English are, so it is possible that others got 6s.

I would say that children with Level 6s across the board are likely to be quite rare.

I think if a child was likely to get 6+ type marks across the board, parents would have been informed of their abilities much earlier on, say by Y3 or so, as all-round exceptional performance is much rarer than being generally bright (level 5) and particularly strong in one or even two areas.

Children at the very highest levels are much more likely to be exhibiting odd behaviour and developmental progress from early infancy, the rate of Aspergers for example is considerably higher in the extremly intelligent group.

If your reported levels for Y5 were Maths level 6, Science 'High L5 with elements of L6', and English 'Secure L5', what would you expect their Y6 SATS to come back as?

I know that the school are going to put him in for the L6 papers next year, I have already been told. Would you expect him to get L6 in them all?