Staffordshire Key Stage 2 results
Apr 1 2009 by Tony Collins, Birmingham Mail
STAFFORDSHIRE primary school pupils have a good reason to celebrate success today, after once again achieving higher than average Key Stage 2 results.
The county has continued to head in the right direction when compared with the other 149 local education authorities across England.
Figures released today by the Department for Children, Schools and Families shows how the country’s 11-year-olds fared in their Key Stage 2 attainment tests. Although the tests were sat as long ago as May last year, controversial delays in the papers being marked meant they could only be published today.
But that will matter little to Staffordshire’s pupils, teachers and parents as the county took its position in the national league table to 47th, a marginal improvement on the previous year’s 48th place but well ahead of the 55th position it occupied in 2006. The proportion of Staffordshire pupils achieving the expected Level 4 in English increased by a significant two per cent from 81 per cent in 2007 to 83 per cent now.
Maths saw a similar gain, from 78 per cent to 80 per cent, but science remained static on 90 per cent.
That gives Staffordshire an aggregate score of 253 out of a maximum of 300, well up on its previous total of 249.
And it also leaves it well ahead of the national average, which only achieved a slight improvement in its Key Stage 2 results.
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