The Education (School Information) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (School Information) (England) Regulations 1994 (“the 1994 Regulations”). The governing body of a county school, a voluntary school, a special school maintained by a local education authority which is not established in a hospital, a grant-maintained school or a grant-maintained special school which is not established in a hospital are required by the 1994 Regulations to make a document, known as a “prospectus”, available for distribution to parents and others.

These Regulations require information to be included in the prospectus relating to the assessment results of pupils in the final year of the second key stage (regulation 4(11)). Such pupils are normally aged eleven. They also provide, in relation to the information in the prospectus concerning GCE “A” level and GCE “AS” examinations where a pupil is entered for both examinations in the same subject, that the GCE “AS” examination result is to be taken into account where the student achieves a grade N or fails to achieve a grade in the GCE “A” level examination but achieves a grade between A and E inclusive in the GCE “AS” examination.

These Regulations also require additional information to be given concerning the percentage of pupils in the final year of the first key stage, where this number of pupils is ten or more, who were either exempted from teacher assessment but assessed by the administration of NC tests, or, who were assessed by the administration of NC tests but exempted from teacher assessment in each of mathematics and the specified attainment targets in English (regulation 4(9)). Such pupils are normally aged seven. Similar provision is also made in relation to pupils in the final year of the third key stage (regulation 4(14)), who are normally aged fourteen.

Where a governing body have already published the annual prospectus before the commencement of these Regulations, the additional information required by these Regulations need not be published in that school year.