Achievement and attainment tables

Ealing achievement and attainment tables for 2007 are available on the DCSF website or via the links on this page:

Key stage 2

Details of Ealing’s 2007 key stage 2 results

The proportion achieving level four or above in Ealing has risen to 80 per cent in English and 78 per cent in maths - up by one percentage point in English and three percentage points in maths from 2006. This means Ealing schools are performing at the national average in English and above the national average in maths.

Results also show that increasing numbers of pupils in Ealing are progressing to the higher level 5, with 34 per cent now reaching level 5 in English (a five percentage point improvement) and 35 per cent in maths (a two percentage point improvement).

Two Southall primary schools are among the top 100 schools nationally for sustained improvement - Tudor Primary School at 22 and Three Bridges Primary School at 39 and based on the contextual value added measure, pupils in 26 of the borough’s 65 primary schools are judged to be making significantly more progress than expected. Eight of these schools are ranked in the country’s top five per cent for helping their pupils’ progress and two schools in Acton are in the top 100 primary schools nationally - Berrymede Junior School at 19 and St Vincent’s Catholic Primary School at 98. The borough’s overall value added rating of 100.4 is also above the national average and places Ealing 11th out of the 150 Local Authorities in England.

There have been significant strides in reducing the number of schools below the 65 per cent government floor target for level 4 or above, from 18 schools below the target in English or maths last year to eight below this year. Primary school absence has also fallen, with the number of sessions missed by primary school pupils in Ealing decreasing from 6.1 per cent in 2005-06 to 5.3 per cent in 2006-07.

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Key stage 3

Details of Ealing’s 2007 key stage 3 results

Key stage 3 tests are taken by 14 year olds in their third year of high school (year 9). Most 14 year olds are expected to achieve level five or better. In 2006/2007 Ealing's key stage 3 results were in line with national averages in maths and 2% points above in English, with 76% of pupils achieving the expected level. Pupils in the borough are on average making more progress between the ages of 11 and 14 than pupils nationally.

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GCSE and equivalent

Details of Ealing’s 2007 GCSE and equivalent results

The proportion of pupils achieving five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C (or equivalent qualifications) including English and maths has improved by ten percentage points in the last three years to 49.1% in Ealing in 2006/2007, more than two percentage points above the national average. Pupils in the borough are also on average making significantly more progress during high school than pupils nationally.

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Post 16

Details of Ealing's 2007 post 16 results

The borough's average point score per student at post 16 was above the average for London West but just below the national average in 2006/2007.

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Value added/contextual value added

Value added is a way of determining pupil attainment by measuring the progress made between key stages and comparing this with the national average. This is seen to be the best guide to a pupil's ultimate performance. Further guidance on value added is available on Teachernet.

The new contextual value added measure, which was published for secondary schools for the first time in 2006 and for the first time for primary schools in 2007, is a measure of the progress a school helps individual pupils to make between key stages. In addition to their prior attainment, it also takes account of factors such as gender, ethnicity and poverty to judge how well schools are doing with the children they have in their school.