East Riding Primary Schools Go To The Top Of The Table In Yorkshire And Humber

Primary schools in the East Riding have the best Key Stage 2 results in the Yorkshire and Humber region and have moved to the top 20 per cent nationally.

Today’s results show an improved performance which has taken the East Riding from 55th last year to 32nd in the national rankings, from a total of 152 local authorities.

Eighty per cent of the East Riding’s Year 6 pupils have achieved the new ‘gold standard’ for the end of Key Stage 2, a three per cent increase on last year and significantly higher than the national average.

The KS2 gold standard is a new core measure (Level 4 or above in reading, writing and mathematics) was introduced last year and is harder to achieve.

This year has also seen another increase in the number of pupils achieving Level 5 or above, with 23 per cent of East Riding pupils attaining this standard.

Councillor Julie Abraham, said:

“I would like to congratulate our primary schools on these significant improvements. I would also like to thank headteachers, staff and children for the hard work that made them possible.”

“We expect that the Ofsted inspection outcomes will reach or exceed the national average in primary schools by the end of this year when the inspections catch up with the improved test results.”

The sustained strong performance by Year 6 pupils is a testament to the health of primary education in the East Riding, building on the improvements secured last year.

Mike Furbank, the council’s head of education and schools, said the results bode well for the future achievements of the children, who have been well prepared to transfer to secondary education, and are particularly impressive in the context of the poor funding which the authority receives.

He said:

“I am delighted that schools have responded so positively to the challenges of a changing assessment system to support children effectively to produce these outcomes.”

“Achieving Level 4 and above across all three subjects is a tough challenge and our children have succeeded in doing this better in the East Riding than any other part of Yorkshire and Humber as well as joining the top 20 per cent nationally for the first time.”