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    • Progress of Pupils / School Performance

    We are proud of the outstanding progress that pupils make in all year groups at Aston Fields Middle School. Please see below for further evidence.

    It is important to remember that as a middle school, the progress pupils make must be judged from the time they join the school in Year 5 to when the leave in Year 8. There is a problem nationally with how the DfE judges middle schools as the only national comparator they use is based on progress from KS1 (end of Year 2) to KS2 (end of Year 6). This is not a fair way of judging pupils’ progress in a middle school and is something the National Middle Schools Forum has been challenging the DfE about for many years. The reason the DfE’s judgement of progress in middle schools is unfair is because 50% of the progress measure they use relates to Years 3 and 4 when pupils are NOT attending middle school. It also takes no account of the progress pupils make in Years 7 and 8 (KS3). Ofsted are aware of this issue and the need to judge middle schools from entry to exit.

    Aston Fields Middle School uses robust, rigorous and externally benchmarked, moderated and validated assessments to judge the progress pupils make across their four years at this school from entry to exit. The quality of this data has been corroborated by Ofsted and the DfE, and acknowledged as credible to use when making judgements about middle schools. The data shown below is based on this.

    Progress of pupils leaving Aston Fields Middle School in July 2025

      Maths Progress From Entry
    Attainment on entry Number of pupils % expected % exceeded
    low 32 97 78
    middle 72 99 47
    high 23 96 65
    School Total 135 98 58
    Disadvantaged 20 95 58
    SEN support 19 89 53
    EHCP 1 100 0
    Girls 53 96 70
    Boys 74 99 51
      English Progress From Entry
    Attainment on entry Number of pupils % expected % exceeded
    low 19 95 63
    middle 72 86 23
    high 35 85 14
    School Total 136 88 27
    Disadvantaged 20 86 44
    SEN support 19 89 32
    EHCP 1 0 0
    Girls 53 89 26
    Boys 74 86 29

    Progress of pupils leaving Aston Fields Middle School in July 2024

      Maths Progress From Entry
    Attainment on entry Number of pupils % expected % exceeded
    low 28 100 79
    middle 69 97 61
    high 32 97 69
    School Total 129 97 67
    Disadvantaged 14 100 57
    SEN support 11 91 45
    EHCP 2 100 50
    Girls 56 96 63
    Boys 73 99 70
      English Progress From Entry
    Attainment on entry Number of pupils % expected % exceeded
    low 15 100 60
    middle 69 99 35
    high 47 81 40
    School Total 131 92 40
    Disadvantaged 14 93 21
    SEN support 11 100 55
    EHCP 3 100 0
    Girls 57 89 39
    Boys 74 95 41

     

    Government Performance Tables

    You can also access the Government School Performance Tables from the DfE website (https://www.gov.uk/school-performance-tables)