Primary Education: Standards

(asked on 10th December 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, on the current definition of "coasting", what percentage of primary schools that are (1) sponsored academies, and (2) maintained schools, broken down by decile of KS1 points score, would be identified as coasting on their (a) 2014, and (b) 2015, results.


Answered by
Earl of Courtown Portrait
Earl of Courtown
Opposition Deputy Chief Whip (Lords)
This question was answered on 23rd December 2015

No school can be defined as coasting under the government’s proposed coasting definition until after the 2016 results are available. The definition of coasting is determined by performance over a three year period.

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