Performance Data

What are SATs?

SATs are statutory assessments carried out by all state schools. They assess how your child’s abilities compare nationally with other children in the same year group.

Your child will be assessed at Key Stage 1 (KS1) during Year 2, at age 7.

Further SATs testing takes place at Key Stage 2 (KS2), when your child will take part in National Curriculum tests in English, maths and the new grammar test at the end of Year 6 (usually age 11).

Early Years Foundation Stage:

Children are defined as having achieved a ‘Good Level of Development’ if they achieve at least the expected level in:

  • The Early Learning Goals (ELGs) in the three prime areas of learning (Personal, Social and Emotional Development; Physical Development; and Communication and Language).
  • The ELGs in the specific areas of Mathematics and Literacy

School Good Level of Development 84.6% (National 71.8%)

Year 1 Phonics

The Year 1 phonics screening check is a short assessment to confirm whether individual pupils have learnt phonic decoding to an appropriate standard.

It identifies the children who need extra help so they are given support by the school to improve their reading skills. Children who have not met the standard in Year 1 retake the assessment in Year 2.

Number of pupils achieving expected standard 32 out of 43-83.7% (National 81.9%)


Key Stage 1 (Year 2)

In 2016 the system of assessing and reporting results in Key Stage 1 changed.

The children undertook a series of tests and these, together with class based evidence gathered over the year, were used to inform teacher assessment results for Reading and Maths. The children also received a level based upon teacher assessment for Writing and Science.

As part of the new assessment system, an ‘expected standard’ has been established and children are judged as to whether they are working ‘at the expected standard’ or are ‘working at greater depth’ in Reading, Writing and Maths. Children are judged purely on whether they are working ‘at the expected standard’ in Science.


Working at the expected standardExpected standard nationalWorking at greater depthGreater depth national
Reading86.4%74.9%23.7%25%
Writing84.7%62.9%10.2%14.8%
Maths88.1%75.6%20.3%21.7%
KS2 SATS Results 2018/2019- Achieving the expected standard
Reading – Achieving the expected standard 74%
Reading – Achieving the expected standard – National 73%
Writing – Achieving the expected standard 87%
Writing – Achieving the expected standard – National 78%
Maths – Achieving the expected standard 79%
Maths – Achieving the expected standard – National 79%
GPS – Achieving the expected standard 76%
GPS – Achieving the expected standard – National 78%
RWM combined – Achieving the expected standard 68%
RWM combined – Achieving the expected standard – National 65%
KS2 SATS Results 2018/2019 – Achieving greater depth
Reading – Achieving greater depth 18%
Reading – Achieving greater depth – National 27%
Writing – Achieving greater depth 26%
Writing – Achieving greater depth – National 20%
Maths – Achieving greater depth 13%
Maths – Achieving greater depth – National 27%
GPS – Achieving greater depth 26%
GPS – Achieving greater depth – National 36%
RWM combined – Achieving greater depth 5%
RWM combined – Achieving greater depth – National 11%
Scaled scores and progress:

* For a pupil to achieve the expected standard in reading and maths they must achieve a scaled score of 100+ in the corresponding tests.

* For a pupil to be working at greater depth in reading and maths they must achieve a scaled score of 110+ in the corresponding tests.

The average scaled score at Beverley St Nicholas Primary School for reading  is 103

The average scaled score at Beverley St Nicholas Primary School for maths  is 103

The average scaled score at Beverley St Nicholas Primary School for GPS  is 104

* Average progress made in KS2

National average progress is always 0. Schools that make less progress receive a negative number rating, schools that make more progress receive a positive rating.

Average progress in reading -2.7
Average progress in writing -0.1
Average progress in maths  -3.0

Compare school performance:

Guidance and further information to help you analyse the data that the government  report in the school and college performance website.

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