A total of 218 secondary schools were assessed for their work in the last academic year and ranked in one of five bands.
Schools in Band 1 are the best performing across all measures while schools in Band 5 require additional support.
This, the third set of results for secondary schools in Wales, showed that 81 schools moved down at least one band between 2012 and 2013, while 71 schools moved up at least one band. No school has moved from Band 1 to Band 5 but one school has moved from Band 5 to Band 1.
Following publication of the results, Mr Lewis said: “School banding is a permanent feature of the Welsh educational landscape. What really matters about banding is that it relates to the teaching and learning experience in the classroom. I don’t see the system in any way fundamentally flawed, but I think it could be perfected a little.
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