Sentences with phrase «results of sponsored academies»

Not exact matches

The Sutton Trust report - Chain Effects 2017 - written by Merryn Hutchings and Becky Francis, which is now in its fourth year, looks at the results of disadvantaged pupils in academy chains with at least two sponsored academies for at least three years.

«In March it was decided that the additional primary school places to serve the developments should be provided in the form of a new Primary Academy from September 2018 and, as a result, work should commence to secure an academy sAcademy from September 2018 and, as a result, work should commence to secure an academy sacademy sponsor.

However the DfE highlighted a number of facts which they said show academies are having a positive impact on young people, including that sponsored academies have GCSE results more than six per cent above their predecessor schools, compared to 1.3 per cent higher in non-academies.

Test results in sponsored primary academies improve at more than double the rate of non-academies and results for free school meals improve faster in those schools, the department said.

«Secondary sponsored academies that have been open for three or more years have results that are above those of their predecessor schools, even against these new, tougher, standards.»

The limited nature of the sponsor pool, together with an inefficient (and competitively stagnant) brokering system for matching schools in need of assistance with viable sponsors, have also resulted in the untenable situation in which almost half of the sponsored academies that have had an inspection post-intervention are themselves rated «inadequate» or «requiring improvement».

«We welcome robust oversight of all schools, but it is also important to recognise that sponsored academies have been improving results faster than other schools in some of the least well - off communities in our country.»

New research by PwC published last weekend reveals that only three of the biggest academy chains has a positive value - added rating, whilst just one of the 26 biggest primary sponsors achieves results above the national average.

Rich Davies, head of data for academy chain Ark, which sponsors the academy, said: «There was a real focus on maths and English and we have seen a massive uplift in those results.

2015 results show that primary sponsored academies open for 2 years have improved their results, on average, by 10 percentage points since opening, more than double the rate of improvement in local - authority - maintained schools over the last 2 years

Our most recent research using the 2014 GCSE results (which excluded many vocational qualifications from counting towards school performance, and reduced the contribution to the total point score of those qualifications included) suggests the improvement was because of disproportionate use of GCSE equivalent qualifications in sponsored academies compared to similar maintained schools.