Subject Value Added Overview

This is often the best place to start each August / September on your improvement journey. The table provides an overview of how the progress of students in each subject compares to progress made in that subject nationally.

On this page you can easily see trends towards improvement by subject. Equally you can see declines in progress scores. You can use this data to begin conversations with heads of department and establish patterns that might not be seen in raw results.

The extract below shows a GCSE subject analysis table over three internal monitoring points in a year.

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