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Grading and Admissions Data for England (GRADE) user guide

A user guide for the linked administrative data on education, assessment and university admissions available in the GRADE data set.

From:
Ofqual
Published
29 April 2022
Last updated
2421 JanuaryJuly 2025 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Grading and Admissions Data for England (GRADE) user guide

Ref: Ofqual/25/7198

HTML

Grading and Admissions Data for England (GRADE) user guide

Ref: Ofqual/25/7198

PDF, 407 KB, 20 pages

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Details

The GRADEGrading (Grading and Admissions Data for England)England (GRADE) data sharing project is a joint open data initiative by Ofqual, the Department for Education (DfE) and UCAS. Its main objective is to provide accredited external researchers with access to data to conduct independent research on the educational, assessment and admission systems in England, and to facilitate internal analysis.

Updates to this page

Published 29 April 2022

Last updated 2421 JanuaryJuly 2025 + show href="#full-history">+ show all updates

    3. Added PDF file for Grading and Admissions Data for England (GRADE) user guide and removed GRADE framework files, which are superseded by the user guide.

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Update history

2026-07-31 08:52
Updated user guide to reflect the third release of the GRADE data set with added years 2023 to 2024

2025-07-21 10:01
Added information for the new lookup table of pseudonymised unique school reference numbers in the DfE dataset.

2025-01-24 11:03
Added PDF file for Grading and Admissions Data for England (GRADE) user guide and removed GRADE framework files, which are superseded by the user guide.

2025-01-08 09:30
Added the HTML page ‘Grading and Admissions Data for England (GRADE) user guide’.

2022-04-29 11:00
First published.