Progress of Pupils at Aston Fields Middle School

We are proud of the outstanding progress that pupils make in all year groups at Aston Fields Middle School. Please see below for further evidence.

It is important to remember that as a middle school, the progress pupils make must be judged from the time they join the school in Year 5 to when the leave in Year 8. There is a problem nationally with how the DfE judges middle schools as the only national comparator they use is based on progress from KS1 (end of Year 2) to KS2 (end of Year 6). This is not a fair way of judging pupils’ progress in a middle school and is something the National Middle Schools Forum has been challenging the DfE about for many years. The reason the DfE’s judgement of progress in middle schools is unfair is because 50% of the progress measure they use relates to Years 3 and 4 when pupils are NOT attending middle school. It also takes no account of the progress pupils make in Years 7 and 8 (KS3). Ofsted are aware of this issue and the need to judge middle schools from entry to exit.

Aston Fields Middle School uses robust, rigorous and externally benchmarked, moderated and validated assessments to judge the progress pupils make across their four years at this school from entry to exit. The quality of this data has been corroborated by Ofsted and the DfE, and acknowledged as credible to use when making judgements about middle schools. The data shown below is based on this.

Progress of pupils leaving Aston Fields Middle School in July 2023

  Maths Progress From Entry
Attainment on entry Number of pupils   % expected  % exceeded
 low 40  100 83
 middle 74  100 59
 high 20  100 70
 School Total 134  100 70
Disadvantaged 16  100 66
SEN support 11 100 64
EHCP 3 100 66
Girls 60  100 69
Boys 74  100 71

  English Progress From Entry
Attainment on entry Number of pupils % expected % exceeded
low 16  100 69
middle 68 99 22
high 50 88 32
School Total 134 95 27
Disadvantaged 16 94 25
SEN support 11 100 27
EHCP 3 67 67
Girls 60 94 30
Boys 74 96 24

Progress of pupils leaving Aston Fields Middle School in July 2022

  Maths Progress From Entry
Attainment on entry Number of pupils   % expected  % exceeded
 low 37  100 92
 middle 78  100 70
 high 22  100 50
 School Total 134  100 75
Disadvantaged 25  100 64
SEN support 8  100 71
EHCP 2 100 100
Girls 68  100 71
Boys 77  100 77

 

  English Progress From Entry
Attainment on entry Number of pupils % expected % exceeded
low 17 100 88
middle 76 97 25
high 41 73 25
School Total 134 92 33
Disadvantaged 25 85 68
SEN support 8 88 63
EHCP 2 100 50
Girls 68 90 33
Boys 77 94 33