Education and Skills written question – answered at on 3 February 2004.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what value added score (a) a school and (b) a local education authority will need to achieve to be judged as satisfactory.
holding answer
Independent judgments about both schools and LEAs are principally a matter for Ofsted, through the inspection system. While an Ofsted judgment is likely to take into account value added criteria, the overall decision will be made on the basis of a wide range of inspection evidence.
The Government have not set any upper or lower benchmarks in relation to published value added scores, but it is recognised that schools with scores at the lower end of the distribution for schools with similar levels of prior attainment are likely to be underperforming.
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