kumarkj wrote:
Thanks folks.
I have gone through all those articles and still did not get a good view as to what exactly is going on.
When 100% of the children are achieving great GCSE scores, what is essentially being measured as an attainment?
Hi Kumar, what are you actually trying to work out by looking at these numbers? It's great looking at these numbers but I have mentioned this before in my posts; we are really lucky to be spoilt for choice in Birmingham and there is hardly anything between top grammars in terms of academics. For e.g. if you compare the actual academic performance between CHB and FW, you will find the PAN for CHB is 120 and for FW it's 180. If you were to look at the top 120 students from FW, you will find the results to be pretty similar to CHB, if not better.
Moreover, CHB and CHG tend to attract higher scores to start with, so it's not surprising they fare a little better on attainment results than other schools. A bright, hard working child will do equally well in all schools