How did your primary school do?

[RosaLuxMundi]

New KS2 league tables are out.

We are quietly smug.

Our LA in general - bleeurrrgh. One of the worst overall in the country.

But our school - smug, preen, etc. Up from 19th to 4th out of 130-odd primary schools, and only just outside the national top 200.

If I believed in league tables and thought they had any value, of course.

our school says "small school - results not published.

But I think the school does ok generally

SATS are bollocks and yet we all get taken in by them, even when we start off by saying it's the school that counts

IMHO the scores mean virtually nothing, nothing to crow about. Each year a different cohort of children will be taking the SATS so you're judging your school on individual children's abilities

whilst doing so, please bear in mind:

that children who move into the school are included, ie those who can hardly be deemed to have benefited from the schooling provided by that school over the last 4 years

that no allowance is made for those speaking english as a 2nd language AFAIK

that this is just reading, writing, maths and science. No other subject counts.

that children with severe SEN will be included in the averaging out .. hence a child who could never be expected to equal national average due to his / her mental capabilities will bring the school's scores down

The school in our village did pretty well - 10th in the region.
At first we thought 'Hurrah. That will put a few thousand on the house prices'
Then we thought 'oh no, hang on, we don't actually want to move out of our house yet, and if we did it would be to a bigger house in the village', so what we really want is a school that is secretly very good but does badly on SATS.

DD's school is top in Northamptonshire Very pleased.