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How to analyse your school's performance data

Data analysis of pupil performance is a key part of understanding attainment and improving outcomes. Get to grips with how to go about it, including what to focus on and how to analyse data from ASP and IDSR.

Last reviewed on 10 October 2023
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Contents
  1. Use these performance data tools and sources
  2. Ask yourself these questions
  3. Using ASP
  4. 'View pupil breakdown': progress 8 and attainment 8
  5. Results over 3 years
  6. Your inspection data summary report (IDSR)
  7. Other available reports

Use these performance data tools and sources

Tools

There are various tools that allow you to analyse different performance data, such as:

  • Analyse School Performance (ASP) for headline measures, such as progress 8 and attainment 8 (see later in the article on how to analyse data using ASP)
  • The inspection data summary report (IDSR) for performance data
  • The Department for Education (DfE) school comparison tool to compare exam and test results with other schools
  • Your school spreadsheets that record in-class test results, student voice confidence levels and syllabus coverage, for example
  • Local models for analysis, such as local authority (LA) or academy models
  • Purchased models linked to schemes of work

Sources

You can use data from:

  • Practice tests and past papers
  • Termly or end-of-unit internal summative data
  • Tests linked to purchased schemes of work
  • Pupil voice
  • Monitoring information from book looks, learning walks and subject scrutinies

Most exams and assessments didn't take place in the 2019/20 or 2020/21