Elton Primary School

Progress Measures KS1 – KS2

The ‘expected progress’ measure Progress measures aim to capture the progress that pupils make from the end of key stage 1 to the end of primary school. They are a type of value-added measure, which means that pupils’ results are compared to the actual achievements of other pupils nationally with similar prior attainment. This type of progress measure rewards schools for making progress with all their pupils, whether they are low, middle, or high attainers. Any increase in attainment achieved by each pupil will be reflected in the school’s progress scores. A school’s progress scores in English reading, English writing and Mathematics are calculated as the average of its pupils’ subject progress scores. These scores give an indication of whether, as a group, pupils in the school made above or below average progress in a subject compared with pupils with similar starting points in other schools.