Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the attainment gap is in Feltham and Heston constituency at (a) EYFS, (b) Year 6/7, (c) GCSE; and what proportion of students started primary school deemed to be school ready in (i) 2018, (ii) 2019, (iii) 2020, (iv) 2021 and (v) 2022.

The department does not hold information on the proportion of pupils deemed school ready for primary school in Feltham and Heston. As a proxy, the percentage of children achieving at least the expected level across all early learning goals can be used to assess readiness for year 1. This is only available to local authority level. In the 2017/18 academic year, in Hounslow, 69.9% of children met this level compared to 70.2% in England. In the 2018/19 academic year, 71.9% of children in Hounslow met this level compared to 70.7% in England. Due to temporary disapplications and modifications to certain elements of the early years foundation stage (EYFS) during the pandemic, data relating to academic years 2019/20 and 2020/21 are not available.

The department does not yet hold attainment data for the 2021/22 academic year. Data relating to EYFS, key stage 2 (KS2), and key stage 4 (KS4) will be published in autumn 2022.

Parliamentary constituency data for Feltham and Heston is available for all pupils at the end of KS2 in academic years 2017/18 to 2018/19, and for all pupils at the end of KS4 in academic years 2017/18 to 2020/21 in the attached files. KS2 data in academic years 2019/20 or 2020/21 was not recorded because of the cancellation of statutory national curriculum assessments at KS2 due to the pandemic.

The department does not publish an attainment gap by pupil characteristics at parliamentary constituency level. The department does publish the disadvantaged pupils’ attainment gap index at KS2 and KS4. This looks at changes in the attainment gap between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils at a national level in state-funded schools in England.

For EYFS, the latest published data are in the annual ‘Early Years Foundation Stage Profile Results’ statistical release: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/early-years-foundation-stage-profile-results. As a proxy for disadvantage, the gap in average point score between children who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) and those who are not can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/dfdb83f9-f54f-4f11-b590-28d3064e3a79.

For KS2, the latest published figure is in Figure 1 of the ‘2018/19 National Curriculum Assessments at Key Stage 2’ statistical release: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/851798/KS2_Revised_publication_text_2019_v3.pdf.

For KS4, the latest published figure is in Figure 6/Table 14 of the ‘2020/21 Key Stage 4 Performance' statistical release: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-4-performance-revised.

Alternatively, information at local authority level is published that allows users to compare attainment by pupil characteristics. The closest information is for Hounslow.

At EYFS, the gap in the average point score between those eligible for FSM and those not in Hounslow increased from 1.8 in 2017/18 to 1.9 in 2018/19 (academic years).

At KS2, the percentage of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing, and maths between disadvantaged pupils and non-disadvantaged pupils in Hounslow decreased from 18 percentage points in 2017/18 to 17.5 percentage points in 2018/19 (academic years).

At KS4, the latest data show that the gap in the average Attainment 8 score between disadvantaged pupils and non-disadvantaged pupils in Hounslow has widened since 2018/19 from 7.5 points to 7.7 points in 2019/20, and to 9.0 points in 2020/21 (academic years).