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Primary progress measures: definition and summary

Understand what primary progress measures are, how they're calculated, and how you can access your school's progress scores.

Last reviewed on 2 January 2026See updates
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Contents
  1. The DfE measures pupil progress in primary schools
  2. Individual pupil progress scores are calculated for all pupils
  3. Your school's progress score is an average of your pupils’ progress scores
  4. Access your progress scores
  5. Next steps

This information, and the rest of this article, is based on the DfE's technical guide to primary school accountability measures.

The methodology set out below is how the DfE calculated primary progress measures in 2022/23 (the last time it was able to publish this data). We'll update this article if the methodology changes – select ‘save for later’ at the top of this article to be notified.

The DfE measures pupil progress in primary schools

Primary progress scores aim to capture the progress that pupils in your school make in reading, writing and maths from the end of KS1 to the end of primary school.

From the academic year 2027/28, primary progress measures will use the reception baseline assessment instead of the end of KS1 assessments, to capture the progress pupils make across the whole of their