Times Educational Supplement:
Academy conversion does not improve primary Sats scores
21 November 2016
Pupils in primary academies do no better in key stage 2 tests than comparable local authority schools, study finds
Researchers from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics looked at the test performance of 270 primaries, which had converted between September 2010 and April 2012.
They compared pupils’ test scores in the academic years 2006/07 to 2013/14 in these schools with a control group of schools that converted in the 2014/15 or 2015/16 academic years.
The results showed pupils enrolled in a school prior to it becoming an academy did no better in their KS2 tests than those sitting the same exams at comparable schools, “irrespective of the Ofsted grade of the school before it converted”.
This article was published online by the Times Educational Supplement on November 21, 2016
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