Mind the Gap

A comparison of Key Stage 4 Year 11 benchmarked achievement data in Wales shows the gulf widening between:

• poor and best performing schools with similar eFSM profiles
• eFSM pupils and their peers

GCSE benchmarked data in pdf: gcse benchmarking

Key results for 2015/16
Pupils in Year 11

• 60.3 per cent of pupils in Year 11 achieved the Level 2 inclusive threshold (Level 2 including a grade A*-C in English or Welsh first language and Mathematics).
• 35.6 per cent of pupils eligible for FSM achieved the L2 inclusive threshold.
• 66.9 per cent of pupils achieved A*-C in maths.
• 70.4 cent of pupils achieved A*-C in either English or Welsh first language.

Key results for 2016/17
Pupils in Year 11

• 54.6 per cent of pupils in Year 11 achieved the Level 2 inclusive threshold
• 28.5 per cent pf pupils eligible for FSM achieved the Level 2 inclusive threshold
• 62.5 per cent of pupils achieved A*-C in Mathematics/Mathematics-Numeracy (best of)
• 67.2 per cent of pupils achieved A*-C in either English or Welsh first language