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At Millom School we believe that education goes beyond just exam results, however, we do need to monitor the progress and outcomes of our students and provide information on their attainment and progress using specific performance criteria. This year has been a unique year in that it is the first set of true examination results that have been published since the Covid-19 pandemic. Qualification results from 2020 and 2021 were based on teacher-assessed grades submitted by the school as the examinations were cancelled. For this reason, it is strongly advised that comparisons between 2022 results and 2021/2020 results are not made.

Performance tables will be published, as normal, this year and the usual Progress 8 (for Year 11) will be published in due course. The Department for Education have said that progress measures will not be published in Key Stage 5, so the value-added measure will not be available.

Key Stage 4

Progress 8 measures the difference between a pupil’s estimated attainment, based on their Key Stage 2 scores, and their actual attainment achieved by the end of Year 11. It takes the current year’s national performance data into account. The whole school Progress 8 score is an average of the Year 11 cohort and is calculated after students have taken the exams. This link explains the key changes for parents:

https://www.theschoolrun.com/secondary-school-performance-measures

Remember also that for several years now we have had a different grading system for GCSEs where results have changed from A*-G to 9-1. The reformed GCSEs are also more challenging and many subjects have experienced the removal of coursework. This helpful fact-sheet from the DfE outlines those key changes to GCSE grading:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/626681/GCSE_Factsheet_parentFormatted1.pdf

In the table below are the headline figures for 2022. Parents and carers are also encouraged to visit the Department for Education’s (DfE) Performance Tables, which can be found on its web site with the link provided in the statutory information tab of the school website. 2022 information will be published shortly.

Note that the E-Bacc measure for Millom School is low because our curriculum model does not make it mandatory for students to study a GCSE in a modern foreign language. We currently give our students the option to study languages (French) at GCSE.

Key Stage 5

The table below shows our headline figures for the Sixth Form for 2022. Please note that the value added and average grade information for previous academic years is sourced from the DfE’s compare school performance website and includes ‘add-back’ students, which are students who completed courses in previous academic years but who were not included in performance measures at that time. The add-back students have a significant impact upon the figures presented in the performance tables, but due to DfE ruling, schools are unable to remove these students from being included in the measures. Attainment data are the school’s own figures, as previously this data has not been published by the DfE and 2022 figures are not yet available. School’s own attainment data does NOT include add-back students. It does include A-levels and equivalent qualifications (vocational).

Performance measures are broken down to Academic (A-level programmes only) and Applied General (BTEC and Cambridge Technical programmes). Applied General statistics are only published if the cohort size is greater than 5.