Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the recent communication of the Minister of State for School Standards to all primary school heads on assessments taking place in the academic year 2021-22, what steps will be taken to analyse attainment; in what form the analysis of those assessments will be disseminated to (a) parents, (b) primary schools and (c) secondary schools in respect of those pupils transferring to year 6 at the start of the new academic year.

The department will publish statistics at national, regional and local authority level for key stage 2, including analysis of attainment and progress by pupil and school characteristics. These statistics will be published on explore education statistics and have been announced via the department’s statistics release calendar. This can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/.

The data from the national statistics publication will also help the department understand trends in education recovery.

As primary school tests and assessments will be returning for the first time since 2019, without any adaptations, the 2021/22 key stage 2 results will not be published in compare school and college performance tables, accessed here: https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/find-a-school-in-england.

Schools are required to provide parents with the results of national curriculum assessments for their child, alongside comparative information on the results of pupils of the same age in the school and of those pupils nationally.

Primary schools may also share information about pupil attainment at key stage 2 with secondary schools.