Secondary School GCSE (and equivalent)
Performance Tables 2010
Lancashire Introduction
These Tables give information on the achieve- school’s control (such as gender, mobility The Tables also include a new symbol against ment and attainment of pupils in second- and levels of deprivation) that have been those schools where the absence rates were ary schools, and how they compare with oth- observed to impact on pupils results afected by severe weather conditions er schools in their local authority (LA) area and ■ A bar chart which shows how A - E This boo let is one of a set of 1 , covering each in England as a whole There are two England (and e uivalent) including English and LA area in England All secondary schools in the averages based on all schools and on the maths results for pupils at the end of in area are listed in alphabetical order, including maintained sector only including T s and each school has changed each year since Academies ■ LA maintained schools ■ verall, persistent and unauthorised ■ Academies n addition to giving bac ground information absence rates at ■ ity Technology olleges on each school, the Tables present ■ ndependent schools and ■ Attainment in Es (and e uivalent The information in these Tables only pro- ■ pecial schools (for pupils with special ualiications) of pupils who were at the vides part of the picture of each school’s and educational needs re uiring special end of ey tage ( ) in the 1 its pupils’ achievements. Schools change from teaching and facilities) school year year to year and their future results may dif- ■ The percentage of pupils who have met the fer from those achieved by current pupils. The new English accalaureate re uirements Tables should be considered alongside oth- (reported for the irst time this year) er important sources of information such as ■ ercentage of pupils at the end of who Ofsted reports and school prospectuses. Ofsted have made at least e pected progress in school inspection reports can be obtained from English and separately in maths www.ofsted.gov.uk or direct from the school ■ ercentage of pupils achieving A - grade on request. Maintained schools cademies Es in both English and maths and ity Technology olleges must provide ■ onte tual alue Added scores including parents with prospectuses on request. English and maths bonuses ( A) which or the irst time in the erformance Tables, measure the progress made by pupils from accredited nternational Es (i Es) and the end of ey tage ( ) to the end of their legacy ualiications are included in the using their test and e am results A igures as e uivalent to Es and have been ta es into account the varying starting counted towards the English and athematics points of each pupil’s test results, and indicators also ad usts for factors which are outside a
1 About These Tables
General Choosing a school Expected levels of secondary These Tables provide the e am results for sec- f you are considering local secondary schools school performance ondary school pupils who are at the end of for your child, you will ind helpful information The government assesses mainstream main- n the ma ority of schools, those pupils in ear in the Tables about the performance of schools tained secondary schools’ performance against 11 in the 1 school year are at the end in your area owever, the Tables provide deined “loor standards” onsidered against of or each local authority (LA), schools only part of the picture of each school’s over- these, a school would be seen as “underper- are listed alphabetically, with special schools all achievements and cannot provide a predic- forming” if its ey tage results are shown separately at the end of each list tion of future performance ou can get a better ■ less than of pupils at the end of ey overall impression of a school by also reading f your child already attends a school listed in tage ( ) achieving or more Es school prospectuses, reports of recent fsted the Tables, you may be interested to see how its A - (or e uivalents) including English and inspections and by visiting schools and tal ing results compare with other schools in the area, maths E and to teachers and with the LA and national averages ou can ■ below average of pupils at the end of also see, at a glance, how each school’s results The ey tage erformance Tables give more ma ing e pected progress in English have changed over the past four years than one measure of a school’s performance (national median for 1 ) and These measures can be considered alongside ■ below average of pupils at the end of ou may want to discuss the results with teach- each other when evaluating the performance ma ing e pected progress in maths ers at your child’s school – how do they feel of a school ” ow to read the Tables” and the (national median for 1 ) the school is performing, and what plans do following sections describe what is published they have to improve levels of achievement for each school and e plains how to interpret ow can you support the wor of the school the information and what conclusions can be hat more can you do to help your own child drawn from the information given do better ou will ind more information on how the The erformance Tables website now enables measures in the Tables are calculated the you to sort schools in ran order under each ational urriculum the ational ualiications performance indicator to search for types of ramewor ad ustments to number of pupils school download underlying data and access on roll and pecial Educational eeds in the school by school spend data for -1 , show- ‘ ore nformation’ section of this boo let ing how much individual schools spend on things such as teaching staf, catering and T