Improving the educational attainment of our children and young people
School performance
Nine out of ten Coventry pupil attend a school that is rated good or outstanding by Ofsted, the schools’ inspectorate. In March 2022, 93.1% of pupils attend a good/outstanding primary school in Coventry and the figure for secondary is 85.5%. Both figures are not only better than our ‘statistical neighbours’ but is better than the national average. However, there has been a drop for special schools, at 86.3%, down from 100% in March 2020.
Pupil attainment
In January 2021 and in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the government announced that it was no longer fair for many exams and assessments to go ahead as planned. It was confirmed that students taking GCSE, AS and A levels regulated by Ofqual would be awarded grades based on an assessment by their teachers. Teachers used a range of evidence to make a judgement about the grade at which their students performed, focusing on the content that students had been taught.
Each school and college were required to put in place an internal quality assurance process, which was defined in their centre policy. Centres’ internal quality assurance included internal standardisation of marking and grading judgements. As part of the external quality assurance, exam boards reviewed the centre policies for all centres. Exam boards also requested evidence from all centres and checked the evidence used to support teacher grades for some students in a sample of centres.
In both 2020 and 2021 grades awarded via teacher and lecturer assessment were significantly higher, overall, than they had been in 2019.
For England, regulator Ofqual has announced that grading in 2022 will again be more generous than it was pre-pandemic, but that grades are expected to fall at a mid-point between those in 2019 and 2021. In future, the plan is for grades to revert to a more normal distribution. As such, 2022 has been described as a ‘transition year’.
Key stage 4
The following table shows Coventry’s GCSE grades for 2021 in comparison to our statistical neighbours and England.
Key stage 5
The following table sets out the three key metrics at key stage 5:
