Best Practice

Who’s interested in the Pupil Premium?

Figures from The Key show that ‘requiring improvement’ schools are least likely to be asking about the Pupil Premium. Kate Gilliford explains.

To look for differences in how schools are approaching the Pupil Premium, we reviewed the types of articles that our members in schools judged “good”, “outstanding”, and also “requiring improvement” were reading in autumn 2013.

For each of these groups, we ranked the most popular articles across the term. We found that several articles about the Pupil Premium featured in the top 20 list for school leaders in good and outstanding schools. 

However, no articles on the Pupil Premium were in the top 20 for members in schools judged as requiring improvement. Members in these schools were far more likely to read articles about staff issues, assessment and floor standards than they were articles about the Pupil Premium.

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