KS2 SATs and secondary school

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My ds is still in primary.
On primary board, a lot of threads related to sats comes up regularly.
Some says results doesn't matter, it only matters for school.
Primary teachers(I think) says it does matter, that secondary uses this for setting GCSE targets. Then there's bunch of people who says secondary uses their own assessment.

What is the truth? Do secondary teachers think sats results are important? Or do they just ignore it?

as a pp poster said, as far as the secondary school statistics goes, the lower the SATS scores, the better.

But no one with any sense gives an iota of credence to school statistics.

Dc's secondary grammar use them (along with kent test results) to set targets and put them into sets for maths & English . They are moveable though obviously