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Change description : 2026-02-12 13:56:00: Updated the guidance to reflect 16 to 18 school and college performance measures for the 2024 to 2025 academic year. [Guidance and regulation]

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Guidance

16 to 18 accountability headline measures

Guide for schools, colleges and local authorities on how the 16 to 18 performance measures are calculated.

Applies to England

Documents

Details

‘16 to 18 accountability headline measures: technical guide’ explains:

  • which performance measures we published for the 20232024 to 20242025 academic year
  • how we calculated these measures

Updates to this page

Published 1 October 2014

Last updated 1312 February 20252026 + show href="#full-history">+ show all updates
    1. Updated the guidance to reflect 16 to 18 school and college performance measures for the 2023 to 2024 academic year. Removed the interim update for the 2023 to 2024 academic year, as this content is now included in the full technical guidance.

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Update history

2026-02-12 13:56
Updated the guidance to reflect 16 to 18 school and college performance measures for the 2024 to 2025 academic year.

2025-02-13 10:00
Updated the guidance to reflect 16 to 18 school and college performance measures for the 2023 to 2024 academic year. Removed the interim update for the 2023 to 2024 academic year, as this content is now included in the full technical guidance.

2025-01-13 09:30
Updated ‘Interim update for the 2023 to 2024 academic year’, with information on changes to the way we will publish T level attainment measures.

2024-10-24 09:30
Added ‘Interim update for the 2023 to 2024 academic year’ which provides updates and clarification on which measures will be published this year.

2024-02-01 09:30
Updated ‘16 to 18 accountability measures: technical guidance’ to align with published policy and include updated information on the planned timeline for publishing disaggregated data for college groups.

2023-04-20 09:30
Updated ‘16 to 18 accountability measures: technical guidance’ to include information about how 2022 to 2023 performance measures will be presented and an update to table 1.

2022-10-06 15:41
‘16 to 18 accountability headline measures: technical guide’ updated for 2022. Removed ‘16 to 18 accountability measures: update for 2021 to 2022 performance measures’ and ‘Progress scores for 16 to 18: school and college performance tables 2019’.

2022-06-22 12:28
We have updated ‘16 to 18 accountability measures: update for 2021 to 2022 performance measures’.