How to read the tables

This section explains how to read the information in the tables.

School Particulars

The tables give the following details for each school:

• address and telephone number;
• whether the school has a Charter Mark (if so, the symbol will be shown);
• what type of school it is (community, voluntary controlled, voluntary aided or foundation); and
• the main age range.

Background information

These columns provide further information about the school which you might find useful. They show:

• the total number of pupils of all ages (including nursery pupils) on the school register on 20 January 2000;
• the number of pupils at the school who reached the age of 11 during the school year. This number should normally be the same or nearly the same as the number of eligible pupils. If there is a big difference you may want to ask the school's head teacher for further information;
• the total number and percentage of pupils of all ages with statements of special educational needs (SEN). These statements describe any learning difficulties that pupils have, and specify the extra help or equipment, that they need. Around 3% of school pupils nationally have statements;
• the total number and percentage of pupils of all ages with special educational needs, but without statements. These are other pupils registered as having special educational needs but whose schools meet the pupils' needs without a statement.

Some pupils with special educational needs are academically able. But schools face challenges in achieving Level 4 at Key Stage 2 for many pupils with SEN. The information on the numbers of pupils with SEN in each school helps you take this into account when looking at a school's results.

Performance Information (Key Stage 2 Test Results)

This part of the tables shows the Key Stage 2 test results for each school.

Which pupils are included?

The information is based on all pupils in each school that were eligible for Key Stage 2 assessment in the 1999/2000 school year.

All pupils - including those with special educational needs - are eligible for assessment under the National Curriculum when they reach the end of Key Stage 2. Most will be aged 11 by the end of the school year. But some will be younger or older. All eligible pupils are included in the tables regardless of whether or not they sat the test (for example because a pupil was absent or disapplied).

The results for some schools have been adjusted

Some schools have requested that pupils recently arrived from overseas with little or no English be discounted from the figures published in the tables. This has been agreed where the pupil was admitted to the school in the 1998/99 or 1999/2000 school year from outside the United Kingdom, and their first language is not English. The Government accepts that these pupils will not do their best in the tests until they have improved their English language skills and are more familiar with the school curriculum in this country.

Test Results

The columns show:

• the number of eligible pupils on the school roll at the time of the tests in May 2000.
• the number and percentage of eligible pupils with special educational needs (SEN) both with or without statements. Some of these pupils may not have taken the tests - because they were working at a level below that assessed by the tests (level 3), or because they were disapplied. This will affect the school's overall results.
• the percentage of eligible pupils who achieved Level 4 or above in the English, mathematics and science tests. Level 4 is the level of achievement expected of pupils at the end of Key Stage 2. It is not an average in the sense that half the pupils should be above Level 4 and half should be below it.
• the percentage of eligible pupils absent or disapplied from the English, mathematics and science tests. A school's results may have been affected by the pupils who were absent or disapplied from the tests. These percentages are shown to help you take this into account when comparing a school's results to those of other schools in the area.

Improvement Measure

The tables also show how the achievements of pupils in each school have changed over the past four years. The bar charts show, the sum of the three percentages of pupils achieving Level 4 or above in the English, mathematics and science tests in each of the years 1997,1998,1999 and 2000.

Symbols

In some places one of the following symbols may be shown instead of results:

< means that the school had 10 or fewer eligible pupils on roll at the time of the 2000 tests. No results are shown for these schools, because of the risk of individual pupils' results being identified;

+ means that the results are not available for reasons beyond the school's control;

X means that the school failed to provide the information.

NA means that the improvement measure is not appropriate for publication, or that no results were published for the year in question.

Local and national averages

The top of each LEA page shows:

• the average figures for all state schools (including special schools) in each local education authority area; and
• the average figures for all schools (including independent schools) in England.

You may wish to compare the results of individual schools with these local and national averages.

How the tables were compiled

School details, test results and background information were checked with or provided by schools during September 2000.

If a school did not confirm that it had checked it's test results and/or background information, the letter R or B (or both) appears after it's age range.