Seventy - five per
cent met the expected standard in maths compared with 70 per cent in 2016; 77 per cent of pupils met the standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling, compared with 73 per cent last year; and 76 per cent of pupils met the standard in writing compared with 74 per cent last year.
Only 68 per
cent met the expected standard — which is still a number of percentage points behind the other subjects, though it is an increase of 3 percentage points on last year.
Not exact matches
Almost 40 per
cent of primary school pupils in England have not
met the
expected standard in reading, writing and maths.
The data also shows that 71 per
cent of pupils
met the
expected standard in reading compared with 66 per
cent last year.
They show that 81 per
cent of pupils
met the
expected standard in phonics, up from 77 per
cent in 2015.
Simmons explains that Swindon has some of the poorest results in the country: «The 2016 phonics outcomes for Swindon are some of the poorest in the country, with only 76 per
cent of six year olds
meeting the
expected standard.
The SEND performance gap remained the same as last year, with 43 per
cent of pupils with SEN
meeting the
expected standard compared to 87 per
cent of pupils with no identified SEN.
In 2017, over two thirds (68 per
cent) of pupils eligible for free school meals
met the
expected standard in phonics, compared to 83 per
cent of all other pupils.
The government's latest release on the phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments in England for 2017 shows the proportion of year 1 pupils
meeting the «
expected standard» in phonics remained static at 81 per
cent.
Primary schools are
expected to
meet an attainment threshold of 65 per
cent of pupils achieving the national
standard in reading, writing and maths, as well as making sufficient progress in all three subjects.
Figures released today by the Department for Education (DfE) show that just 53 per
cent of year 6 pupils
met the
expected standard in reading, writing and maths.
Specifically, 74 per
cent of Year 1 pupils
met the
expected standard of phonic decoding in 2014, compared with 58 per
cent in 2012.
We found out in July that just half (53 per
cent) of year 6 pupils
met the new
expected standard.