Fullhurst is ‘well above average’ and in the top 200 highest performing schools!
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The Department for Education has released new performance tables showing that Fullhurst is one of six city schools leading the way under the Government’s new performance measure Progress 8.
Progress 8 is a new measure of the progress pupils make between the end of primary school (KS2) and the end of secondary school (KS4). It’s designed to encourage good quality teaching across a broad curriculum. It looks at attainment in eight GCSEs (or equivalent) subjects from grade A*-G (9-1 in maths and English) for each pupil.
Progress 8 scores generally fall somewhere between minus -1 and 1. The number is then placed into one of five bands:
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well above average
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above average
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average
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below average
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well below average
With a Progress 8 score of +0.64, Fullhurst Community College is ‘well above average’ and in the top 200 highest performing schools in the country.
Steve Piggot, principal of Fullhurst, said: “We’re extremely pleased. These are record results and down to the hard work of staff , students and parents. The qualifications gained by our young people are a vindication of all of that work.”
Read more on the Leicester Mercury website.