Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children in (a) Ashfield, (b) Mansfield and (c) Nottinghamshire who are eligible for free school meals reached the expected standard in (i) reading, (ii) writing and (iii) maths at the end of Key Stage 2 in each of the last three years.

The number of pupils, at the end of Key Stage 2, who were eligible for free school meals¹, reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics in Ashfield and Mansfield can be found in the attached table.

The 2015/16 Key Stage 2 assessments were the first to assess the new, more challenging National Curriculum, introduced in 2014. Due to the changes to the curriculum, figures from 2015/16 are not comparable to those for earlier years.

The number and percentage of pupils in Nottinghamshire reaching the expected standard is published in the departments statistical first release, found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-key-stage-2 (select the ‘revised’ publication for each year and then download the local authority tables). The figures for 2017 will be published on 14 December.

1. Free school meal eligibility is taken from the census record for that academic year. Some pupils will have no free school meal eligibility information and have been excluded.