Sometimes I do wonder whether schools are gaming the performance measures or whether the performance measures are gaming the schools.
There’s already a raft of nuances in the performance table measures that marginally move the data one way or the other.
Firstly, the KS2 fine-level cap at 5.8 means that students who have a higher starting point than that are effectively lumped in with everyone else at 5.8. The reason for this is that the use of the level 6 KS2 tests varies between schools, but it has the side effect of giving the students with the highest prior attainment a slightly less…
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