School Performance
Ofsted
Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. Ofsted regulate and inspect schools and colleges to seek improvement in the service. They carry out large number of inspections and regulatory visits in England and publish their finding on their website.
View Wearhead Primary latest Ofsted report.
Department for Education
Many Parents are keen to see how we are performing in relation to other schools.
The Department for Education (Dfe) Performance Tables provide a reliable and accessible source of comparative information on pupil attainment and progress, absence, workforce and finance. The Performance Tables include percentages of achievement to Level 4 and Level 5 or above in reading, writing and maths and the percentage of expected progress in each subject. You can find the School Performance Tables from the DfE by clicking the link below.
View Wearhead Primary School Performance Tables.
KS2 Summary Reports
In very small schools with low pupil numbers, such as ours, there are sometimes cohorts of fewer than 6 pupils. When groups of children are very small, the risk of being able to identify an individual child from the data is unacceptable and publishing it would be unfair on that pupil. Therefore, it is the policy of both the DfE and Ofsted not to publish results data for groups of fewer than 6 children. They call this suppressing data and they refer to groups of children as cohorts.
Durham Dales Federation agrees with this approach, and this is why the results from last year have not been published.
This policy also applies to data normally published by schools which refer to any group of children who match various criteria, such as so-called 'disadvantaged' children (for example, pupils eligible for 'pupil premium' funding). If you visit the pupil premium page on this website, you may well see that data has been suppressed there, too.
Check School Performance Tables
You can use performance tables (sometimes known as league tables) to compare schools and colleges in your area. You can check:
- exam and test results
- financial information
- Ofsted reports
You can only see statistics for schools and colleges in England.
