Accessing Performance Information for Your School

Welcome to School Performance Information on SchoolsWeb. By using the links in the sections below, you will be able to download and print any analyses provided to you by the School Management Support Team. You will also be able to view other information, such as instructions and links to external websites. If you want to know when analyses are likely to be published please refer to the Primary or Secondary Timetable on each page which details the planned release of performance and contextual data to schools (actual release dates may differ depending on availability of data).

To contact the School Management Support Team about performance information

Sarah Sewell - 01296 382640
Ellen Haywood - 01296 382159 or Viki Telfer - 01296 387875

Or smst@buckinghamshire.gov.uk

How to access school performance analysis for contextual data

Schools which have purchased the School Management Support Team’s annual buyback package will have access to results and analysis (including pupil and pupil group level analysis, school and school group level analysis, Local Authority and National level results) through the many analysis packages published by the team.

Analysis is made available to schools through the Performance area of SchoolsWeb or for pupil level information is sent through the Annycomms Plus secure file transfer facility.

If your school has not purchased the annual package, or is interested in further information, this page includes links to publically available data.

Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) Results
Results at Local Authority and National level, including results split by pupil group (ethnicity, free school meal eligibility, Special Education Needs etc) are available on the Department of Education's statistics site (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics ).

Key Stage 1 Results
Results at Local Authority and National level, including results split by pupil group (ethnicity, free school meal eligibility, Special Education Needs etc) are available on the Department of Education's statistics site (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics ).

Key Stage 2 Results
School, Local Authority and National data are available from the Department of Education, either through the "Find and Compare Schools" website (https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/) or in excel format on the Department of Education's statistics site https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics/ ).

Results at Local Authority and National level split by pupil group (ethnicity, free school meal eligibility, Special Education Needs etc) are also available on the Department of Education's statistics site (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics).

Key Stage 4 (GCSE and equivalent) Results
School, Local Authority and National data are available from the Department of Education, either through the "Find and Compare Schools" website (https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/) or in excel format on the Department of Education's statistics site(https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics).  School level data includes results in individual GCSE subjects.

Results at Local Authority and National level split by pupil group (ethnicity, free school meal eligibility, Special Education Needs etc) are also available on the Department of Education's statistics site (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics).

Key Stage 5 (A Level and equivalent) Results
School, Local Authority and National data are available from the Department of Education, either through the "Find and Compare Schools" website (https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/ ) or in excel format on the Department of Education's statistics site (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics ).

Results at Local Authority and National level split by pupil group (ethnicity, free school meal eligibility, Special Education Needs etc) are also available on the Department of Education's statistics site (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics).

Information on School Inspections
Ofsted produce reports of all school inspections they carry out.  These are available on their website (https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/).

Number of Pupils
The Department of Education publishes information on the number of pupils in schools (by school type, area etc) on their statistics site (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics ).

Information on the number of pupils attending schools within Buckinghamshire is available in the Number on Roll document.

• Numbers on roll

Absence and Exclusions from School
The Department of Education publishes information on both absence and exclusions (by school type, area etc) on their statistics site (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics).

School Level Expenditure Data
The Department of Education now publish information on school expenditure from the Consistent Financial Reporting exercise at http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/adminandfinance/financialmanagement/ 

Additional analysis tools for schools

Progress Matrices Templates

The School Management Support Team has been working with the Buckinghamshire Learning Trust to produce a number of tools to support schools in evaluating progress of pupils currently in the school. These tools can be downloaded from this page, and a summary of the available files is below.

• Reception progress matrices: these look at progress from the ‘on-entry’ to reception assessment using the ‘Development matters’ bands and describe expected and better progress by reference to the Ofsted statements in the latest ‘Subsidiary Guidance’ (April 2014).
• EY to end of Year 1 matrices: these look at progress from the end of reception (Foundation Stage Profile).
• EY to KS1 matrices: these look at progress from the end of reception, and are for use with the new EY assessments (current year 1s). Please note that completed EY-KS1 matrices for your current year 2s are provided as part of the SMST annual package.
• KS1 to end of Year 4 matrices: these look at the proportions making 6 points progress from the end of KS1; it is felt that this is more helpful than looking for one level of progress
• (KS1 to KS2 progress matrices: please note that completed KS1-KS2 matrices for your current year 2s are provided as part of the SMST annual package)

Schools wishing to construct matrices for other year groups may use the additional matrices:

• KS1 to end of term 2 Year 3 – looking at proportions making 2 points progress from KS1
• KS1 to end of term 1 Year 4 – look at proportions making 4 points progress from KS1
• KS1 to end of term 2 Year 5 – looking at proportions making 8 points progress from KS1
• KS1 to end of term 1 Year 6 – looking at proportions making 10 points progress from KS1

All the files are set up so that schools just need to enter the results for their individual pupils – the matrices will be created automatically from the data entered.

Schools must be able to describe the proportions making expected progress and the proportions making better than expected progress in every year group for Ofsted. This could be by the use of levels of by points – but be clear what the school’s policy is about progress. The use of an evaluation using the average gain in points is no acceptable as an average ‘hides’ pupils who have not made sufficient progress under small groups of individuals who have made exception progress and is not clear about the progress of groups of pupils from their different starting points.

Please note that schools may find these tools useful to evaluate pupil progress, but do not have to use them and can use other packages and systems to provide similar information. In particular schools using the Buckinghamshire Assessment Reports (BAR) package in SIMS may wish to investigate the progress reports available to them within SIMS before using the tools on this page.