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Disadvantaged pupils attainment gap index at key stage 4 (12279) Metric type
- Help text
- The disadvantage gap index summarises relative attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and all other pupils. The gap index is more resilient to changes to grading systems and accountability measures, therefore it offers greater comparability between years. The index ranks all pupils in the country and asks whether disadvantaged pupils typically rank lower than non-disadvantaged pupils. A disadvantage gap of zero would indicate that pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds perform as well as pupils from non-disadvantaged backgrounds. We measure whether the disadvantage gap is getting larger or smaller over time. For key stage 4 (KS4) it is based on the average grades achieved in English and mathematics GCSEs.
Results for 2019/20 and 2020/21 includes grades awarded to students, when exams were cancelled, due to COVID-19 and are not comparable with earlier years. Instead, for 2020/21, pupils were only assessed on the content they had been taught for each course. Schools were given flexibility to decide how to assess their pupils' performance.
Data is only published at national level. It covers all state-funded schools include local authority maintained mainstream schools, academies, free schools, city technology colleges, further education colleges with provision for 14 to 16 year-olds and state-funded special schools. They exclude independent schools, independent special schools, non-maintained special schools, hospital schools, pupil referral units and alternative provision.
- Modified
- 16 Feb 2023
- Data last updated
- 06 Feb 2024
- Short label
- Disadvantaged pupils attainment gap index at KS4
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 2
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- Disadvantaged attainment gap index
- Dataset
- Characteristics national tables
- Collection
- Key stage 4 performance
- Source
- Department for Education
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