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Where Can I find League Tables of All State Secondary Schools?

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roses2 · 28/07/2023 13:26

Hi, can anyone help me find a website with a league table of all state secondary schools?

The websites I have found only have the top 100 UK wide and my local states are not listed.

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PreplexJ · 28/07/2023 13:36

roses2 · 28/07/2023 13:26

Hi, can anyone help me find a website with a league table of all state secondary schools?

The websites I have found only have the top 100 UK wide and my local states are not listed.

If league table you mean ranking by academic achievement then the state school Attainment 8 and KS4 result is available download from gov website.
Att8scr column is the attainment 8 scores, you can just sort the data yourself.

https://www.find-school-performance-data.service.gov.uk/download-data?currentstep=year&regiontype=beforeStep&la=&downloadYear=2021-2022

Download data - Find school and college performance data in England - GOV.UK

You can find schools and colleges in your area. You can also view exam and test results, financial details and Ofsted reports.

https://www.find-school-performance-data.service.gov.uk/download-data?currentstep=year&downloadYear=2021-2022&la=&regiontype=beforeStep

TheShorestAnswerIsDoing · 28/07/2023 22:30

Also, do not rely on websites other than mentioned above by Perplex gov website. Many sites and newspapers habe League tables that are very much out of date :/

roses2 · 28/07/2023 23:20

Thank you both! I found what I was looking for in the above website

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nikkerstwist · 30/07/2023 17:29

PreplexJ · 28/07/2023 13:36

If league table you mean ranking by academic achievement then the state school Attainment 8 and KS4 result is available download from gov website.
Att8scr column is the attainment 8 scores, you can just sort the data yourself.

https://www.find-school-performance-data.service.gov.uk/download-data?currentstep=year&regiontype=beforeStep&la=&downloadYear=2021-2022

Many would argue that Progress 8 is a better measure than Attainment 8, because attainment is more dependent on intake than progress is. May be best to look at both.

JaukiVexnoydi · 30/07/2023 17:35

If comparing specific schools it is useful to drill down into the progress-8 data which you can scrutinise split between different categories eg demographics and prior attainment levels. This is good to know if e.g. the school has a better than average track record for the progress of students in a similar category to your own dc but a worse than average score overall, or of course it could be the other way around.

PreplexJ · 30/07/2023 17:40

nikkerstwist · 30/07/2023 17:29

Many would argue that Progress 8 is a better measure than Attainment 8, because attainment is more dependent on intake than progress is. May be best to look at both.

Progress 8 is unreliable. According to a doctoral thesis from Durham University, the Progress 8 scores are biased by external variables such as the differences in schools’ intake and examination entries. This is profoundly unfair and is likely to mean that the wrong schools are identified as differentially effective. The thesis also found that even school leaders with expert knowledge of their institutions, access to students’ performance data and the previous year’s attainment averages cannot make reliable predictions about schools’ value-added results. This outcome invalidates the notion that parents can use Progress 8 outputs as a means of making informed decisions about the effect of their child attending one school over another.

http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14188/

On the other hand, attainment 8 is heavily relied on school intake selection criteria, whether you like it or not, it is close to the main methodology most of the league table use across all sectors, private or state.

Is Progress 8 a valid and reliable measure of school effectiveness? - Durham e-Theses

http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14188

nikkerstwist · 30/07/2023 19:02

Progress 8 is unreliable, yes, but Attainment 8 is unreliable for the same reasons and more, the more being that it doesn't tell you anything at all about how much progress children have made from their starting point, only what their attainment was.

If the OP's DC is a high flyer and she wants them to be in a school with lots of other high flyers then Attainment 8 will suit her. Otherwise, it may not and she'd be wise to look at both.

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