West Berks pupils beat national average in Key Stage 2 SATs
The figures show that 77 per cent of year six pupils in West Berkshire achieved a level four in their Key Stage 2 SAT assessments, compared to a national average of 75 per cent.
This is an increase of three per cent for the district from last year.
Top of the chart locally were Chieveley, Welford and Wickham, Brightwalton and Yattendon primary schools at which 100 per cent of pupils achieved level four in reading, writing and mathematics.
To achieve a level four, pupils must be able to spell properly, use some grammatically complex sentences, write in joined-up handwriting and also be able to multiply and divide whole numbers by 10 or 100 and use simple fractions and percentages.
Each school is also given an average point score for each pupil sitting the SATs. Central Government specifies the number of points to be awarded for each level, which is then divided by the number of pupils sitting the tests at each school to provide an average.
Chieveley Primary achieved an average point score of 31.1, Welford and Wickham 32.4, Yattendon 30.3 and Brightwalton 30.2.
Theale Primary also performed well with an average point score of 31 and 93 per cent of its pupils achieving level four, along with Hampstead Norreys Primary, with 31 points and 92 per cent, Sulhamstead Primary with 30.5 points and 88 per cent and Curridge Primary with 30.2 points and 93 per cent of pupils achieving level four.
The lowest achieving schools in West Berkshire, excluding special schools, were Beedon Primary, with an average point score per pupil of 25.8 and three of its six year 6 pupils achieving level four overall, and The Ilsleys Primary School, with a point score of 26 and 67 per cent of its nine year six pupils achieving the standard.
Data was not available for the primary schools Fir Tree, Shefford, Chaddleworth, Brimpton and Beenham primary school.
The Department for Education said this could be due to a number of reasons, including too few pupils taking the exams, which could risk an individual pupil’s results being identified, investigations into maladministration of tests or no pupils at Key Stage 2 level.
West Berkshire Local Education Authority (LEA) had the third highest results in Berkshire, behind Wokingham (81 per cent) and Bracknell Forest (78 per cent).
Seventy-five per cent of pupils in Windsor and Maidenhead LEA achieved level four, followed by Slough at 74 per cent and Reading at 69 per cent.
The 2013 league tables are the first to illustrate schools performances since the assessment criteria changed.
Previously, scores in reading and writing were combined to form one English grade, meaning that a poor achievement in one could be balanced by a higher achievement in the other.
However, pupils must now achieve at least 60 per cent in all three aspects of the assessments.
