This article is based on the DfE's technical guide to primary school accountability measures in 2022.
In a nutshell: what are primary progress measures?
- They aim to capture the progress that pupils in your school make from the end of Key Stage (KS) 1 to the end of primary school (KS2)
- Pupils’ results at KS2 are compared nationally to the actual achievements of other pupils with similar prior attainment
- They're school-level accountability measures, meaning that individual pupil scores are solely used to calculate your school's overall progress scores. You shouldn't share individual pupil progress scores with pupils or parents
Impact of the pandemic on performance data
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, KS2 tests and assessments didn't take place in 2019/20 or 2020/21, but resumed again in 2021/22.
Produced the normal suite of KS2 accountability measures, but won't publish these in performance tables. It intends to start publishing these again