Families of Schools Birmingham Secondary Schools Key stage 4 2018 Contents Foreword .............................................................................................................................. 3 Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 4 Background ...................................................................................................................... 4 How have the schools been grouped? ............................................................................. 4 Schools Included .............................................................................................................. 5 Notes on data ...................................................................................................................... 5 Definition of terminology relating to Attainment and Contextual data ............................... 5 Deciles .............................................................................................................................. 6 Honorary Family Members ................................................................................................... 7 Using the Families of Schools document ............................................................................. 7 Finding a school ............................................................................................................... 7 Making comparisons with other schools ........................................................................... 7 Constituency Report ......................................................................................................... 7 What does the data show me? ......................................................................................... 8 Using the Performance Maps ......................................................................................... 11 A fully labelled performance map ................................................................................... 11 How Families of Schools has been used in Birmingham in 2017-2018 ............................. 13 National Outcomes ............................................................................................................ 14 Family Groups ................................................................................................................... 14 Constituencies ................................................................................................................ 15 Family Group 1 ............................................................................................................... 21 Family Group 2 ............................................................................................................... 27 Family Group 3 ............................................................................................................... 33 Family Group 4 ............................................................................................................... 39 Family Group 5 ............................................................................................................... 45 Family Group 6 ............................................................................................................... 51 Family Group 7 ............................................................................................................... 57 Family Group 8 ............................................................................................................... 63 Honorary Family Members ............................................................................................. 69 Appendices ........................................................................................................................ 71 Included Measures (for definitions see section at beginning of document) .................... 71 1 Standardisation Methodology ......................................................................................... 71 Family Group Weightings ............................................................................................... 72 Schools classed as outliers ............................................................................................ 72 Income deprivation affecting children (IDACI) ................................................................ 73 Data quality..................................................................................................................... 73 School and Family Group List ............................................................................................ 74 Maps of Birmingham .......................................................................................................... 76 Schools against contextual deciles by constituency ....................................................... 77 Schools against attainment deciles by constituency. ...................................................... 78 This document has been produced by the Data and Intelligence Team, Strategic Services Directorate, Birmingham City Council Contact Details James Killan Intelligence Officer Email: [email protected] Tel: 0121 303 8846 November 2018 2 Foreword I am delighted to introduce the second edition of Key Stage 4 Families of Schools for Birmingham as part of BEP’s mission to support schools working together. Its purpose is to help schools see how others with similar intakes serve their pupils. Secondary Headteachers in the London, Black Country and Manchester Challenges had access to a similar resource and really valued it as helpful so, I hope you take the time to familiarise yourself with it. Schools in Birmingham face a number of challenges. They also boast an enormous collective pool of expert leaders and teachers. The purpose of this document is to point you towards similar schools facing similar circumstances with whom you can share practice and experiences. Whatever the problem, this document shows there are always schools to whom you can turn and this is a very important and powerful school improvement tool. We have grouped all Birmingham Secondary schools into families according to prior attainment and contextual data. You will find your school in one of these 8 families. I hope you use this document to develop and further strengthen your collaboration with other schools, and with your colleagues internally to bring about improvements for your pupils. Families of Schools played an integral part of the positive London story in recent years and I am confident it will help do the same for Birmingham. The successes we are trying to facilitate through BEP lie ultimately in your hands. I hope that this document will help contribute to that. Tracy Ruddle Director of Continuous School Improvement Birmingham Education Partnership 3 Introduction Background In 2008 the DFE published Families of Schools reports for primary and secondary schools in the Black Country, London and Greater Manchester. Schools were grouped into families based on a number of factors including Key Stage 1 Average Points Score, measures of deprivation and the proportion of children with English as an additional language. This enabled schools with statistically similar intakes to understand the size and nature of their attainment gap and provided the opportunity for schools to learn from the best performing school in each family. The reports were well received and subsequent reports were published in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Since 2016 we have been producing “Families of Schools” for Birmingham starting with key stage 2 in 2016 and extending to key stage 1 and 4 in 2017. Following this success we are continuing these documents for 2018. For this year however we are slightly changing the grouping methodology with an aim to create slightly more stable school families year on year. To achieve this we are now using a schools three year average for prior attainment rather than a single year, prior attainment being both the largest contributor to the grouping methodology and the most volatile year on year. Prior attainment looks at the average points score achieved at key stage 2. How have the schools been grouped? Schools are grouped into families on the basis of a combination of an average of their key stage 4 children’s prior attainment and contextual data for pupils in year groups 7 to 11 obtained from the January census. The measures include: Prior attainment Income deprivation affecting children index (IDACI) Free school meal eligibility (FSM) English as an additional language (EAL) Mobility Using the methodology described at the end of this document an overall score for each school has been determined based on a specific weighting and the schools allocated to family groups. Note that it was decided that due to the smaller size of the families compared to the other key stages it was decided that we get the closest statistical match possible. Therefore not all family groups are the same size. This is explained in the appendixes. 4 Schools Included All mainstream state funded schools and academies which had a year 11 class for the academic year 2017 – 2018. Establishment name and status are accurate as of November 2018. Schools closing since September 2017 have had their census and attainment data matched to the new establishment. Mainstream secondary phase establishments that did not yet have a year 11 for 2018 have been matched to family groups as “honorary” members. This is explained