Schools Examination Results 2003 - 2005

Directorate Support Team (Data and Statistics) – Cornwall Summary Report 2012/13

Children, Schools and Families, Cornwall Council

Cornwall Summary Report

Contents

1. Introduction and background

1.1 School Contextual Summary

1.2 Children’s Centre Contextual Summary

2. Early Year Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP)

Year 1 Phonics Summary

3. Key Stage 1 Teacher Assessments

4. Key Stage 2

5. Key Stage 3

6. Key Stage 4

7. Contextual Value Added & Value Added

8. Post 16 Attainment

9. Vulnerable Groups: Free School Meals (FSM)

10. Vulnerable Groups: Children in Care/Looked After Children (CIC/LAC)

11. Vulnerable Groups: Special Educational Needs (SEN)

12. Vulnerable Groups: English as an Additional Language (EAL)

13. Vulnerable Groups: Black and minority Ethnic Children (BME)

14. Exclusions

15. Absence Summary

16. Detailed EYFSP Results

17. Ethnicity Summary (School Census)

1. Introduction and background

The school contextual summary provides a contextual background to Cornwall in relation to schools and Children’s Centres. The following sections will focus on presenting a summary of Cornwall’s performance at Early YearsFoundation Stage Profile and Key Stages 1 to 5 over several years and allow a comparison to be made to the National level. The report will consider Value Added and Contextual Value Added as methods to help indicate Cornwall’s standards and progress. Please note unless otherwise stated national averages are for all schools (including independent schools, academies, City Technology Colleges, and special schools) excluding hospital schools, Pupil Referral Units and Alternative Provision.

This document will also focus on achievements made by Vulnerable Groups, considering attainment of pupils eligible for Free School Meals (FSM),Looked after Children (LAC / CIC) pupils who have English as an Additional Language (EAL), BME pupilsand those pupils who have Special Educational Needs (SEN). Historical exclusion data will be presented for Cornwall and compared to National figures. The Actual Absence figures for Cornwall and Nationally will also be highlighted. As they are key strands relating to the Raising Aspiration and Achievement Strategy in the annual educational data report going to Children’s Trust Board there will be an emphasis on: no and % of A / A* at GCSE and A Level; Level 5 at KS2; Performance of vulnerable groups (particularly EAL); SEN without statements; and Boys’ progress and attainment.

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A further APPENDIX (1) provides greater detail on the attainment and progress (and absence and exclusions) of groups in Cornwall.The first element of the appendix provides a cross tabulation of groups from the January School Census for primary and secondary schools. This presents the numbers (and percentage) of pupils in various groups and how they appear in other groups. For example, this will tell you how many children in schools with an SEN statement are claiming Free School Meals. The second element is in relation to educational attainment and progress at the end of Key Stages 2 and 4 considering a variety of key measures and presenting cohort averages for the main groups of interest and tracked at pupil level. This is followed by absence and exclusions summaries for the same groups. APPENDIX 2 provides locality profiles for each of the localities in Cornwall. These contain area based contextual data and have been developed from Children’s Centre Reach Area Profiles described on page 7 of this document. The Anti-Bullying Strategy (ABS) Group has developed a dataset of key information to support planning and preparation for Ofsted inspections in this area. APPENDIX 3 provides the latest ABS summary drawn from a variety of sources across the County.

School and LA level achievement and attainment tables are published by the DfE at the following web link: Further National and LA comparative statistics related to attainment and attendance can be found at

It is hoped this report will be a useful collaborative resource when evaluating Cornwall’s performance for pupils of all ages and as an indication of areas of weakness to target to result in a raised standards and progress in future years. Please note that provisional data is used when released until final data is made available. Please find below locations at which further information and local school based analyses can be located. These links can be followed by pressing copying and pasting the links into Windows Explorer for those Local Authority staff that have access.

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Cornwall Summary Analyses (including area and locality based information)

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DfE and National Strategies Analysis Tools (including Local Area Interactive Tool - LAIT)

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Early years Foundation Stage (EYFSP), Key Stage 1 and 2

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Key Stages 3, 4 & 5

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1.1 School Contextual Summary

Cornwall’s contextual background for School’s has been summarised using data from the termly School Census on 17th January 2013:

236 primary schools with 38,716 pupils(of which 34 were academies with 8,416 pupils).

2 nursery schools with 158 pupils

31 secondary schools with 30,850 pupils(of which 15 were academies with 17,339 pupils). Of the 30,850pupils,27,724were in Years 7-11 and 3,126were post 16 in 14 schools with 6th.

4 special schools with 372 pupils(of which 1 academy with 111 pupils). Of the 372 pupils103were primary-age and 269were secondary-age.

Total 273 schools with 70,096 pupils

Also in January 2013, there are 7 Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) with 228 pupils on roll (25 children were attending the PRUs who were not on the roll of any other school or establishment and 203 were dually registered). There were a further 85 pupils receiving Alternative Provision funded by the local Authority but not in a LA Maintained educational establishment (for example placed in non-maintained special schools) who were not on the roll of a maintained school.

There are also 2333 pupils on roll across 9Independent schools in Cornwall (EduBase January 2012 Independent School Census).

Cornwall has a total population of 535,760 people (ONS Mid Year Population Estimates 2011) of which approximately 115,505 are aged 0 to 19 and 96,194 are aged 0 to 16.

The number of births in Cornwall reached a peak of 5,876 in the school year 1987/88. Since then, the number of births dropped to a low of 4,489 in 2002/03 but has been increasing slowly since than and was 5,653 in 2011/12. The children who were born in the peak year of births have left school, thus all of the age-groups now in Year 4 up to Year 11 come from declining birth-groups, with those numbers starting to increase for children in lower year groups. There was a net inward migration of families with children into the county of around 1,150 children across the age-range from birth to 15 between August 2011 and August 2012. The primary roll is expected to rise over the next five years due to an upturn in the birth rate and net inward migration into Cornwall. The more urban areas of Cornwall appear to be growing in numbers, with the more rural areas declining in general. The secondary roll is expected to suffer a fall in numbers over the next four years until an upturn in 2016/17.

Ethnic Background (see Table 17 for complete picture). The proportion of all pupils of Black/Minority Ethnic (BME) background was 5.8% (2239 pupils) in primary schools and 4.8% (1495 children) in secondary schools in comparison with approximately 28.5% in primary schools and 24.2% in secondary schools in England.There were 139 children living in Cornwall, who in January 2013 recorded their ethnicity as either Traveller of Irish Heritage, or Gypsy/Roma in the School Census.In January 2013, the proportion of pupils with whose first language is known or believed to be other than English was 2% in primary schools and 1.4% in secondary schools in comparison with 18.1% in primary schools and 13.6% in secondary schools in England.

In January 2013 in Cornwall, 15% of primary pupils and 12.9% of secondary pupils (10-15) claimed (were eligible for) a free school meal in comparison with 19.2% of primary pupils and 16.3% of secondary pupils respectively in England. In January 2012 in Cornwall, 14.7% of primary pupils and 12.2% of secondary pupils (10-15) claimed (were eligible for) a free school meal in comparison with 19.3% of primary pupils and 16.0% of secondary pupils respectively in England. 22.3% of primary pupils and 23.6% of secondary pupils qualified under the Free School Meals 6 Ever category in January 2013. There has been an increase in take up (eligibility measured through claiming Free School Meals) in Cornwallwithin the last year. There has been a significant amount of publicity on this issue, although we suspect this is still not a true reflection of entitlement in Cornwall. The percentage of pupils eligible for Free School Meals, used historically for benchmarking by the DfE and OFSTED, has in the past been viewed as an unfair measure of social deprivation. Research conducted by the DfE, highlighted potential problems with the take up of free school meals and suggests that up to 1 in 5 children entitled to receive free school meals do not take up this benefit. The reasons for this are fears that children could be stigmatised or embarrassed; Concerns over quality of school meals, preferring to provide a packed lunch; Lack of awareness to entitlement.

The proportion of pupils identified with Special Educational Needs in Cornwall’s state funded schools (SEN School Action, School Action Plus and Statements) is identified in the tables below.

Special Educational Needs pupils with and without statements (School Census January 2012)

Cornwall / National
School Census January 2012 / Head count / With State ments / Without State ments (A&P) / School Action (A) / School Action Plus (P) / % With State ments / % Without State ments / National
% With Statements / National
% Without Statements
Nursery Schools (2) / 149 / 0 / 13 / 4 / 9 / 0.0% / 8.7%
Primary Schools (236) / 38,083 / 818 / 5900 / 3727 / 2173 / 2.1% / 15.5% / 1.4% / 17.1%
Secondary Schools
(31) / 31,315 / 829 / 5991 / 4046 / 1945 / 2.6% / 19.1% / 1.9% / 18.3%
Special Schools (4) / 362 / 361 / 1 / 0 / 1 / 99.7% / 0.3%

Special Educational Needs pupils with and without statements (School Census January 2013)

Cornwall / National
School Census January 2013 / Head count / With State ments / Without State ments (A&P) / School Action (A) / School Action Plus (P) / % With State ments / % Without State ments / National
% With Statements / National
% Without Statements
Nursery Schools (2) / 158 / 2 / 9 / 0 / 9 / 1.3% / 5.7%
Primary Schools (236) / 38,716 / 808 / 5,693 / 3,605 / 2,088 / 2.1% / 14.7% / 1.4% / 16%
Secondary Schools
(31) / 30,850 / 805 / 5,671 / 3,876 / 1,795 / 2.6% / 18.4% / 1.9% / 17%
Special Schools (4) / 372 / 372 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 100% / 0%

Indices of Multiple Deprivation -

This analysis uses the 2004 and 2007 Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) Indices of Deprivation. LSOAs have replaced Wards for the collection and publication of small area statistics. They are better for statistical comparison as they are of a much more consistent size. They have a minimum of 1000 residents and 400 household and average 1500 residents (wards vary in size from fewer than 100 to over 30,000 residents.

The Index of Multiple Deprivation Score was constructed by combining the seven Domain Indices Income (22.5%), Barriers to Housing and Services (9.3%), Employment (22.5%), Living Environment (9.3%), Health Deprivation and Disability (13.5%), Crime and Disorder (9.3%), Education, Skills and Training (13.5%). The Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI) is a subset of the Income Domain and represents the % of children under 16 living in households in receipt of benefits.Each LSOA in England is ranked between 1 and 32,482 according to the Index of Multiple Deprivation Score, 1 is the most deprived LSOA in England, and 32,482 the least deprived.

By using postcode data collected in the 2006 and 2008 January Pupil Level Annual Schools Census we have identified the LSOAs that feed each school and the number of pupils living in each LSOA in the whole school (rather than just the LSOA that the school is in). From this we have calculated an Index of Multiple Deprivation score and rank (out of 32,482) for each Primary and Secondary School in Cornwall and used this to place each school within a National Decile. A summary of where the schools in Cornwall fall is presented below:

CornwallLA Schools and Academies
Decile / IMD 2004 Primary / IMD 2007 Primary / IMD 2010 Primary / IMD 2004 Secondary / IMD 2007 Secondary / IMD 2010 Secondary
least deprived 0 - 10% of LSOAs in England
(rank 29234 - 32482)
least deprived 10 - 20% of LSOAs in England
(rank 25986 - 29233)
least deprived 20 - 30% of LSOAs in England
(rank 22738 - 25985) / 2
least deprived 30 - 40% of LSOAs in England
(rank 19490 - 22737) / 1 / 2 / 3
least deprived 40 - 50% of LSOAs in England
(rank 16242 - 19489) / 22 / 14 / 21 / 2 / 1 / 2
most deprived 40 - 50% of LSOAs in England
(rank 12994 - 16241) / 74 / 60 / 77 / 7 / 7 / 6
most deprived 30 - 40% of LSOAs in England
(rank 9746 - 12993) / 90 / 101 / 94 / 15 / 13 / 16
most deprived 20 - 30% of LSOAs in England
(rank 6498 - 9745) / 42 / 49 / 33 / 6 / 9 / 7
most deprived 10 - 20% of LSOAs in England
(rank 3250 - 6497) / 7 / 10 / 8 / 1 / 1
most deprived 0 - 10% of LSOAs in England
(rank 1 - 3249) / 1 / 1
Total / 239 / 237 / 236 / 31 / 31 / 31

The percentage of pupils eligible for Free School Meals, used historically for benchmarking by the DFE and OFSTED, is viewed by the Cornwall Children’s Services authority as an unfair measure of social deprivation because pupils with self employed parents are not deemed eligible. This is particularly relevant in Cornwall where 21.3% of people in employment are self-employed (2001 Census of Population) and many are seasonally employed. Research conducted by the DfE, highlighted potential problems with the take up of free school meals and suggests that up to 1 in 5 children eligible to receive free school meals do not take up this benefit. The reasons for this are; Fears that children could be stigmatised or embarrassed; Concerns over quality of school meals, preferring to provide a packed lunch; Lack of awareness to entitlement. For the reasons highlighted above, Free School Meals has been replaced nationally with more advanced deprivation measures, such as Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD).

1.2 Children’s Centre Contextual Summary

Cornwall’s contextual background for Children’s Centres is as follows:

Cornwall has 18 federated Children’s Centres with geographical reach areas covering the entire county.Recent progress includes:

Federation of Children’s Centres – 40 original reach areas have now been federated to the current 18 reach areas, with full countywide provision maintained.
Each Children’s Centre has a budget based on a funding formula focussing on deprivation and numbers of children in each reach area, but also incorporating rurality and health needs.
Each Children’s Centre has its statutory Advisory Board or is part of a cluster arrangement.
The Local Authority holds an Annual Performance Conversation with each of its Children’s Centres.
Children’s Centres have strong links with other agencies. This enables them to provide a range of effective support to ensure the most positive outcomes are achieved. These include: NHS (especially Health Visitors), Job Centre Plus and the Voluntary and Community Sector. For example, teenage parent support is provided by WILD, support for families with children with disabilities is provided by Face to Face, co-ordination and training of Breastfeeding Peer supporters is provided by Real Baby Milk.
Three Children’s Centres have been inspected by Ofsted as at August 2012. The recent OFSTED inspection of Torpoint Children’s Centre rated the centre as “Good with Outstanding capacity for sustained improvement”. Ofsted have reviewed their framework for children’s centre inspections from September 2011. The new framework can be found here:

OFSTED inspection reports for Children’s Centres in Cornwall can be found here:

The Directorate Support Team (Data & Statistics) provides Children’s Centre and Locality Managers with data and information about their areas – for example, contextual data, health data (including National Child Measurement Program), EYFSP attainment, domestic violence data and deprivation to assist them with identifying areas of need and help them plan targeted provision in their areas. Trends over time and county and national averages are included where available to allow easy comparison. The team also provides quarterly reporting from Estart covering attendance and registrations at each centre, and maps of reach areas for information. In order to gain a greater understanding of the needs of the Children’s Centre in relation to analysis, and to further our understanding of Children’s Centres, we have attended an advisory board meeting, OFSTED inspections, and visited centres and met with managers to discuss how they can understand and utilise the data effectively. The available data is reviewed regularly to provide the most comprehensive datasets we can, and to ensure they provide information detailed in the OFSTED inspection framework. This data can be found in the following folderfor those Local Authority staff that have access:

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For further information on Children’s Centres in Cornwall, for those Local Authority staff that have access, please see the following intranet link:

2. Early Year Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP)

2.1 Early Years Foundation Stage Profile Summary

A detailed summary of results for the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile highlighting the average scores and the percentage achieving the Early Learning Goals for Cornwall and Nationally can be found in Table 16.1 (please click here to view)and for Early Assessments collected around the October half term in table 16.2.

Part of the DfE National Indicator set in relation to EYFSP specifies that a child achieving a 'Good Level of Development (GLD)' will achieve at least the Early Learning Goals (ELGs) within the three prime areas: communication & language, physical development and PSED, and the ELGs within the literacy and maths areas, in the new 2013 framework; a similar indicator was used prior to 2013 and presented below. The figures are not comparable across frameworks, i.e. after 2012. The other EYFSP National Indictor measures ‘Narrowing the Gap between the lowest achieving 20% in the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile and the rest’.

New EYFS Framework / Summer 2013
Good Level of Development / 49.4%
(2724/5511)
National =52%
Narrowing The Gap / 34.6%
(34-22.2)/34
National =36.6%
Average Total Score / 33.2
National = 32.8
Old EYFS Framework / Summer 2008 / Summer 2009 / Summer 2010 / Summer 2011 / Summer 2012
Good Level of Development / 48.5%
(2410/4973)
National = 49% / 52.2%
(2579/4940)
National = 52% / 55.6%
(2867/5153) National =56% / 58.2%
(3111/5341)
National =
59% / 63.2%
(3462/5479)
National = 64%
Narrowing The Gap / 34.3%
(87-57.2)/87
National = 35.6% / 31.8%
(88-60.1)/88
National = 33.9% / 32.5%
(89-60.1)/89
National = 32.7% / 29.6%
(90-63.3)/90
National = 31.4% / 27.4%
(90-65.3)/90
National = 30.1%

Year 1 Phonics Summary