Progress refers to the development a child makes from their last validated test result so for this group of children their progress from Year 2 to Year 6.

Individual pupil level progress scores are calculated in comparison to other pupils nationally. For all mainstream pupils nationally, the average progress score will be zero.

A school’s progress scores for English reading, English writing and mathematics are calculated as its pupils’ average progress scores. This means that school level progress scores will be presented as positive and negative numbers either side of zero.

A mark of 0 means pupils do as well as others at KS2 as those with similar prior ability nationally.

A minus score does not mean that pupils did not make progress, but did not make as good a progress as others with a similar starting point nationally.

A score of -5 or above means that a school is above the floor standards set by the government.

A pupil’s scaled score is based on their raw score. The raw score is the total number of marks a pupil scores in a test, based on the number of questions they answered correctly. The raw score is converted into a scaled score. The range of scaled scores available for each KS2 test is:

• 80 is the lowest scaled score that can be awarded
• 120 is the highest scaled score

A pupil awarded a scaled score of 100 or more has met the expected standard in each test.