In 2013/14 at Bexleyheath Academy, only 0.7 per cent of year 11 and 1.5 per cent of year 13 leavers were NEET (not in education, employment or training) respectively – well below the national and London average. Below is a quick overview of some of our key strategies and approaches that have led to this success.
Work out where your students have gone: the destinations figures collected by the Department for Education (DfE) are not yet as accurate as they would like and a lot of that is because the data they are using has not been cleansed.
By making sure that your student roll actually matches the one that the government uses you can avoid the “unknowns”, and it is very important that if students leave your institution in years 7 to 11 that the data you hold about their next destination is as detailed as possible. Like most schools, we keep a student-by-student record of exactly where our pupils go once they leave us at year 11, 12 and 13 and check that this information is accurate by emailing the students during the following academic year.
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