The Department for Education has published its Progress 8 scores - the national benchmark on which schools are judged. Here's everything you need to know about what your son or daughter's school's score actually means.
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00:00The Department for Education has published its Progress 8 scores. Progress 8 is the national
00:05benchmark on which a school's performance is judged. It looks at pupils' progress rather
00:10than raw outcomes and was introduced in 2016 as a fairer way to look at school performance.
00:16Each school is given a value, either positive or negative, indicating whether pupils have
00:20on average performed above or below what would be expected for their cohort of pupils. A
00:27score of 1 means on average pupils achieved a grade higher than their national counterparts
00:32of similar assessed starting points compared to national schools. A score of minus 1 for
00:37a school means that they scored on average a grade less of children with the same assessed
00:42starting point. It's based on students' performance in their SATs and assesses those
00:48students who got similar results and pre-assessed ability and then looking at how they performed
00:52in their GCSEs. Progress 8 is calculated using Maths and English, the Sciences, Geography
01:00and History and also the Languages. When making the calculation, English and Maths is given
01:05a double weighting to reflect the importance of those subjects.