Families of Schools 2017
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Families of Schools Birmingham Primary Schools - Key stage 1 2017 This document has been produced by the Intelligence and Analysis Team, Commissioning Centre of Excellence, Birmingham City Council Contact Details Richard Browne Intelligence Manager James Killan Intelligence Officer Email: [email protected] Tel: 0121 303 8846 September 2017 1 Contents Foreword ............................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Background ....................................................................................................................................................................... 5 How have the schools been grouped? ......................................................................................................................... 5 Schools Included .............................................................................................................................................................. 5 Notes on data ................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Definition of terminology relating to attainment and contextual data ....................................................................... 6 Contextual Families ......................................................................................................................................................... 7 Finding a school ............................................................................................................................................................... 8 Making comparisons with other schools ....................................................................................................................... 8 How Families of Schools was used in London .............................................................................................................. 11 Case Study - Family 9 - London Families of Schools ............................................................................................... 11 Birmingham in context ....................................................................................................................................................... 12 Characteristics sheet ..................................................................................................................................................... 13 Attainment sheet ............................................................................................................................................................ 14 District breakdown charts for expected standard, ethnicity and disadvantaged/FSM ......................................... 15 Family Groups .................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Contextual Family pages .................................................................................................................................................. 89 Appendices ......................................................................................................................................................................... 97 How have the schools been grouped? ....................................................................................................................... 97 Included Measures (for definitions see section at beginning of document) .......................................................... 97 Standardisation Methodology ....................................................................................................................................... 97 Family Group Weightings.............................................................................................................................................. 98 Income deprivation affecting children ......................................................................................................................... 99 Data quality ..................................................................................................................................................................... 99 School and Family Group List ........................................................................................................................................ 100 Map of Birmingham showing location of schools by family group ............................................................................ 107 2 3 Foreword I am delighted to introduce the first edition of Key Stage 1 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. The 2016 pilot at Key Stage 2 proved to be popular with schools. Following the feedback that you would like a KS1 version, this is our first attempt to provide a document for Primary and Infant schools using the 2017 KS1 data. Schools in Birmingham face many 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 Infant and Primary schools into families according to GLD prior attainment and context data. You will find your school in one of 18 families. This is a smaller number of families than the Key Stage 2 as the prior attainment measure of GLD percentage enables schools to be grouped more evenly. There are also additional families based on EAL and mobility indicators at the back of the document. We are intending on running some ‘free’ half day sessions during the Autumn Term to enable you to work with other schools in your family group and to create some ‘focussed’ partnerships. We will of course be taking your feedback on this document so that we can enhance it in the future. I hope you use this edition to develop and further strengthen your collaboration with other schools and 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 4 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 allocated to 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. In 2016 using the above as a guide we produced a “Families of Schools” for Birmingham which focused on Key Stage 2. Following on from this have decided to produce an additional report focusing on Key Stage 1. The aim being to follow the methodology from Key Stage 2 as closely as possible while not introducing new progress measures between the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) and Key Stage 1. For this reason prior attainment looks at the percentage of pupils who achieved a Good Level of Development at EYFSP. How have the schools been grouped? Schools are grouped into families on the basis of a combination of their Key Stage 1 children’s prior attainment and contextual data 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. Schools Included All open establishments as of July 2017 which are mainstream state funded schools or academies within Birmingham that had a Year 2 class for the academic year 2016 – 2017. Schools closing since submitting their 2017 Key Stage 1 or census data have been matched to the new establishment. 5 Notes on data All data used within this document has been obtained from the 2017 January school census and data submitted to the LA by schools as part of the annual assessment submissions. Only schools that are included within the family groups remit are referenced throughout this document. Characteristics of Birmingham constituencies - This information is populated from school census and includes all pupils living in indicated areas, within the year groups reception