Teachers- a question about race

[lucymaudmonty]

Been thinking about this

Do you as a school or department have achievement data broken down by race/ethnicity?

We have data for EAL students and PP student but it is obviously wrong to conflate these groups with BAME students.

Also I know that nationally, there are significant differences in achievement of black students from the Caribbean for example, and those from Nigeria.

So what is the answer to this? I think it is something I could do better on, as a HoD.

We don't have data for differences within different groups (as self identified). The info is there on target tracker, but we've never done anything with it.

We do however have 'white British' as a minority group in our school, so data is tracked for them, and flagged up in all class listing etc. Often goes with PP and SEN in our setting.

Yes that's interesting thank you

We do track data on race. Our school is about 50/50 Black African to White British. Black Africans students outperform the white British by on average one whole grade at gcse. Would be interesting to see how that tracks to earnings a few years down the line.

We have not one BAME child in our school. There are two in another school in the federation. So 2 out of around 209 children.

That's rural North Norfolk for you!

We only have one BAME child so not at present.

Yes we track race as well as all the rest.

We don't track race, but as a rural school there are only a couple of BAME children in each year group. This is starting to change within lower year groups, so I think it is something we will need to start doing in the future.

Interestingly, there's very little overlap between our EAL students and our BAME students.

Our school started tracking the data of Afro-Caribbean children last year because they are massively underachieving compared to other groups at our school (and across the country). The Black African students, in comparison, are excelling.

For book looks and lesson observations, we are focusing on trying to work out why this is the case. Checking if they are being challenged enough. Seeing if they are engaged, if not, why? Checking they have the support they need. Is there an intervention that might help?

We're trying but unfortunately have not found the answer yet.