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Diary of a headteacher: Understanding Progress 8

The new accountability regime, including Progress 8, is proving to be a complex minefield for many school leaders and school governors too. Our headteacher diarist reflects

Throughout the past few months, headteachers, school leaders and governors have been navigating their way through new accountability reforms for secondary schools, evaluating how students in their schools had performed and what this translates to in terms of a Progress 8 score and what this then means for the standing of their school.

Initially schools will have calculated their Progress 8 scores on GCSE results day, only to later discover that their actual score was somewhat lower than they had originally thought.

Most schools knew this dip was coming as they were aware that their calculations were based on 2015 data, which was the only information available at the time to compare students’ scores with.

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