Sydney Russell School

Examination Results 2018

While we are a successful school, we are not complacent and strive relentlessly to show continuous improvement in our academic results. In the Summer of 2018, our school made exceptional progress and attainment was high for the third successive academic year.

Performance Indicators

Ofsted consider a school’s results over a three year period, using a range of Performance Indicators. Below are the key performance indicators for 2018.
Primary Phase

EYFS

KS1 Outcomes

Secondary Phase

In the Secondary Phase, the majority of subjects faced the new rigours of linear courses and the movement of grades to the 1-9 scale. In spite of this, our results are very positive, especially when viewed in the national picture of results this summer. Given the early stage in the school year, the final national figures for some performance indicators are yet to be released. We will update them as soon as the final figures are available.

Progress 8

Progress 8 is based on students’ progress across eight subjects:

English;

Mathematics;

Three from Science, Computer Science, Geography, History and Modern Foreign Languages.

Three from a list of eligible subjects, some of which are academic, others vocational.

Students’ progress is measured against their scores in English and Maths in the KS2 tests. Students are given a target based on these results, predicting their GCSE Grades. If students attain these predicted grades, they score 0. A plus score therefore indicates that a student performed better than could be expected whereas a minus score indicates a student performed less well than could be expected. The school’s Progress 8 is an average of these scores.

2017: +0.32

2018: +0.17 (still to be validated by the DfE – likely to increase)

Attainment 8

Attainment 8 is the students’ average achievement across these eight subjects. Each student is given a score for each grade that they achieved. These scores are divided by 10, the total number of grades as English and Maths count twice. To calculate the school’s Attainment 8 score, all of the students’ scores are added together and divided by the cohort number. While these performance indicators are new, they demonstrate that progress has been made:

2017: 47.54

2018: 47.21

English Baccalaureate

The English Baccalaureate is designed to ensure that students have the opportunity to study a broad range of subjects, but ones suited to their interests and abilities. At The Sydney Russell School in 2018 38.5% of students achieved the English Baccalaureate, which all indications suggest will be above the percentage of students who achieved the English Baccalaureate nationally. Students study a range of subjects:

English;

Mathematics;

Three from Science, Computer Science, Geography, History and Modern Foreign Languages.

Three from a list of eligible subjects, some of which are academic, others vocational.

2017 – (47%)

2018 – (38.5%)