Improving educational outcomes
School performance and pupil attainment
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the national lockdown, school examinations including GCSE and A-level examinations were cancelled in summer 2020. As a result, there are limited indicators available for 2020.
Pupils scheduled to sit GCSE and A-level exams in 2020 were awarded either a centre assessment grade (based on what the school or college believed the student would most likely have achieved had exams gone ahead) or their calculated grade using a model developed by Ofqual - whichever was the higher of the two. The GCSE grades awarded to pupils in 2020 will remain with them as they stay on in further and higher education or enter employment after leaving school. However, the cancellation of summer 2020 GCSE exams and the new method of awarding grades has led to a set of pupil attainment statistics that are unlike previous years.
Each of the pupil level attainment statistics have increased, more than would be expected in a typical year. This reflects the change to the way GCSE grades were awarded rather than improvements in pupil performance. As a result, the 2020 data should not be directly compared to attainment data from previous years for the purposes of measuring changes in student performance.
Key stage 4
The following table sets out the attainment 8 results at key stage 4 for Coventry and England. Progress 8 data was not published. No comparisons are made against previous years as the results are not comparable.
Key stage 5
