Guidance

Secondary accountability measures (including Progress 8 and Attainment 8)

Information for schools about secondary school accountability measures, including Progress 8 and Attainment 8.

From:
Department for Education
Published
6 March 2014
Last updated
25 March 2022 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Secondary accountability measures: guide

PDF, 793 KB, 58 pages

Secondary accountability measures: update for 2021 to 2022 performance measures

PDF, 305320 KB, 20 pages

Progress 8 and Attainment 8: how measures are calculated

Ref: DFE-00252-2016 PDF, 273 KB, 5 pages

Progress scores for key stage 4: school and college performance tables

PDF, 136 KB, 4 pages

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Details

These documents explain how secondary accountability measures are calculated. They also give more information about announced policies that apply to accountability measures for the 2021 to 2022 academic year.

This information is for:

  • school and college leaders
  • governing bodies

It applies to:

  • local-authority-maintained schools
  • academies
  • free schools
  • further education colleges with 14 to 16 provision

See school and college performance tables.

See the KS4 qualifications, discount codes and point scores for the school performance table.

A short video explaining Progress 8 is also available:

Progress 8 video

Published 6 March 2014
Last updated 25 March 2022 + show all updates

  1. Amended the EBacc average point score for GCSE history in table 1 of 'Secondary accountability measures: update for 2021 to 2022 performance measures'.

  2. Added an updated version of 'Secondary accountability measures: update for 2021 to 2022 performance measures'.

  3. Added guidance which explains how we will calculate secondary performance measures for the 2021 to 2022 academic year.

  4. Updated with more information about announced policies that apply to accountability measures in 2019 and 2020. Also updated 'Progress scores for key stage 4: school and college performance tables' to include 2019 figures.

  5. Updated secondary accountability measures guidance.

  6. Updated 'secondary accountability measures: guide' to show revised prior attainment group thresholds in table E:1.

  7. Updated 'secondary accountability measures: guide' with new data and information.

  8. Updated guidance with newly available data.

  9. Updated guidance with new definition of combined science qualifications. Example EBacc average point scores updated with 2018 data.

  10. Updated 'Secondary accountability measures: guide' and added 'Progress scores for key stage 4: school and college performance tables'.

  11. Updated the secondary accountability measures guide to include the 2017 coasting threshold.

  12. Updated 'Secondary accountability measures: guide' with new information on the EBacc accountability measures to be used from 2018. Also updated Attainment 8 estimates with provisional 2017 data.

  13. Updated Progress 8 measure in 2016, 2017 and 2018, Progress 8 key figures and school and pupil ready reckoner documents.

  14. Added new document: 'Progress 8 and Attainment 8: how measures are calculated'. Updated 'Progress 8 measure in 2016, 2017 and 2018' to include a definition of 'coasting' schools.

  15. Added Progress 8 and Attainment 8 key figures and ready reckoner documents.

  16. Added further detail on how to calculate fine levels in Annex C.

  17. Updated guidance to explain how secondary schools should interpret the 2016 key stage 2 results.

  18. Added video explaining Progress 8.

  19. Updated 'Progress 8 measure in 2016, 2017 and 2018', clarifying how the fine level calculation is completed and providing a link to 'Key stage 2 to key stage 4 value added measures'.

  20. Updated 'Progress 8 measure in 2016, 2017 and 2018' document, including clarification on how English counts in the headline performance table measures.

  21. Updated 'Progress 8 measure' document: clarified technical information and added detail, including about how to calculate prior attainment and how the Ofsted exemption will be implemented.

  22. Updated 'Progress 8 measure in 2016 and 2017' document. Further explained 2017 point scores in annex A, and revised the attainment 8 estimates table to 2 decimal places in annex B.

  23. Added 'Progress 8 measure in 2016 and 2017' document in place of superseded performance measure information and technical guide documents.

  24. Updated 'Progress 8 school performance measure' document to include information on mathematics and statistics qualifications.

  25. Added the terms and conditions document for schools wishing to opt into the progress 8 measure in 2015.

  26. First published.