Decision details

The Director, Education and Inclusion Services provided the Cabinet with the final confirmation of Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5 examination results for 2018-19 and Primary and Secondary School Categorisation for 2019/20. Prior to her presentation, the Director advised of an oversight in the report, confirming that the data is final and not provisional.

The Director proceed to outline the results concluding that overall, the school categorisation outcomes suggest improvement in the numbers of primary schools requiring green and red support and that categorisation at secondary level  remained stable. However, Members were informed that it is difficult to make meaningful comparisons across 2018 and 2019 datasets due to the fact that the 2019 outcomes include the ‘first award’ data only.

Members noted that in order to move away from threshold measures, Welsh Government no longer provide analyses on the percentage of learners achieving: individual subjects, including the Welsh Baccalaureate at Foundation or National level, or threshold performance measures, namely the Core Subject Indicator (CSI) or Level 2 threshold.

The Cabinet Member for Education and Inclusion Services thanked the Director for the robust report. The Cabinet Member was pleased to note that although deprivation was an influence of educational performance, the Council remained ambitious with measures in place to improve performance where possible.

The Cabinet RESOLVED:

1.    To note the information contained within the report; and

2.    To note the action taken to date and the future planned intervention of the Director of Education and Inclusion Services in partnership with Local Authority Education Services and Central South Consortium to support schools currently categorised as amber and red.