Primary School League Tables

[Weegee]

Yesterday saw the publication of the league tables for Primary Schools.

Southwark Primary School League Tables

As parents with children in this borough, what do you make of them?

(I work for the company that prepared the data for them...I am very proud of the work we have done in collecting the data!)

[intexasatthe moment]

There's a couple of comments on this thread

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?29,377322

about Ofsted and data.

[malcol]

To be honest, I don't really understand these tables.

[Ann]

Malcol,

The percentages quoted are for what's called Level 4 in the National Curriculum. In other words what is considered to be an appropriate level for children of that age, and that the school has 'succeeded' by achieving a high percentage. A child may be functioning below that level but could have special needs; these percentages are also reported but difficult to interpret as a parent who, generally speaking, wouldn't know what ' special needs' really means. So therefore the tables are hard to interpret.

Primary school children can also achieve Level 5, which suggests that their numeracy and literacy are above average and as we all know , not all children are average.

The Tables also like to include a 'value added ' score which I think attempts to include a background view of the intake. As far as I'm aware the percentage of children eligable for free school meals is one of them. In other words , don't compare Dulwich Village Infants to say, Crawford in Camberwell; the intake is bound to be different.

It's a mine field. I'm sure other forumites can shed more light!

If you're the parent of a young child you've come to right place, many here will give their support.

[toast]

I tend to look at the value added score, will my child come out stronger or weaker due to the culture of the school, was not able to list by value added score, would be handy. Funny how the value added difference is so small.