The Coasting Schools (England) Regulations 2017

Coasting secondary schools

5.—(1) For the purposes of section 60B(1) of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (coasting schools), a maintained school providing KS4 education is “coasting” if it meets the coasting criteria for each school year of the most recent three successive school years for which there is All England KS4 data.

(2) In paragraph (1), the “coasting criteria” are—

(a) in relation to the school years 2013/2014 and 2014/2015, that—

(i) the attainment measure for the school is below 60%; and

(ii) each progress measure for the school, for the school year listed in column 1 of table 3, is below the percentage for the respective subject listed in the corresponding entry in column 2 or 3 of the table(1);

Table 3

Column 1 – School year	Column 2 – Percentage for English	Column 3 – Percentage for mathematics
2013/2014	74%	67%
2014/2015	73%	68%

(b) additionally in relation to the school year 2014/2015 in respect only of a maintained school providing KS4 education which is a Progress 8 early opt-in school, that—

(i) the school’s Progress 8 measure for that year is below -0.25; and

(ii) the school’s upper confidence limit for that year is below zero;

(c) in relation to the school year 2015/2016 and subsequent school years, that—

(i) the school’s Progress 8 measure for the school year is below -0.25; and

(ii) the school’s upper confidence limit is below zero.

(3) In this regulation—

“All England KS4 data” means—

(a)

the key stage 4 performance data for all of England which is downloadable in respect of the relevant school year and identified in that data as being “Final key stage 4” data; or

(b)

where the data in sub-paragraph (a) is not downloadable in respect of the relevant school year, the key stage 4 performance data for all of England which is downloadable in respect of the relevant school year and identified in that data as being “Revised key stage 4” data;

“attainment measure” means, in relation to the school years 2013/2014 and 2014/2015, the percentage shown in either the “PTAC5EM_PTQ” or “PTAC5EM_PTQ_EE” column (as appropriate) of the All England KS4 data(2);

“progress measure” means, in relation to the school years 2013/2014 and 2014/2015, each of—

(a)

the percentage shown in either the “PT24ENGPRG_PTQ” or “PT24ENGPRG_PTQ_EE” column of the All England KS4 data (as appropriate)(3); and

(b)

the percentage shown in either the “PT24MATHPRG_PTQ” or “PT24MATHPRG_PTQ_EE” column of the All England KS4 data (as appropriate)(4);

“Progress 8 accountability measure” means the progress and attainment calculation methodology set out in the document entitled “Progress 8: How Progress 8 and Attainment 8 measures are calculated” with the reference “DFE-00252-2016” and published by the Department for Education on 19th October 2016(5);

“Progress 8 early opt-in school” means a maintained school providing KS4 education which has opted-in to the early use of the Progress 8 accountability measure and is included in the document entitled “Progress 8 opt in: list of schools” published by the Department for Education on 3rd August 2015(6);

“Progress 8 measure” means, in relation to the school year 2014/2015 and subsequent school years, the score achieved by the school as determined in accordance with the Progress 8 accountability measure, being the score shown in the “P8MEA” column of the All England KS4 data;

“upper confidence limit” means¸ in relation to the school year 2014/2015 and subsequent school years, the score achieved by the school as determined in accordance with the Progress 8 accountability measure, being the figure shown in the “P8CIUPP” column of the All England KS4 data.

(1)

These percentage figures represent the median of the progress percentage figures achieved by all secondary schools in England.

(2)

This column shows the percentage of pupils achieving 5 or more A*-C or equivalents at GCSE, including A*-C in both English and mathematics GCSE.

(3)

This column shows the percentage of pupils at the end of key stage 4 achieving the expected level of progress between key stage 2 and GCSE English.

(4)

This column shows the percentage of pupils at the end of key stage 4 achieving the expected level of progress between key stage 2 and GCSE mathematics.

(5)

Available on the internet at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/progress-8-school-performance-measure and in hard copy by writing to Ministerial and Public Communications Division, Department for Education, Piccadilly Gate, Store Street, Manchester, M1 2WD or by telephoning 0370 000 2288.

(6)

Available on the internet at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/progress-8-school-performance-measure-early-opt-in-schools and in hard copy by writing to Ministerial and Public Communications Division, Department for Education, Piccadilly Gate, Store Street, Manchester, M1 2WD or by telephoning 0370 000 2288.