PROGRESS 8

Progress 8 is a secondary performance measures that is designed by the government to encourage schools to offer a broad and balanced curriculum, with a focus on an academic core at Key Stage 4. It is a measure that describes the amount of progress made from each student’s starting points across a range of specified subjects. This is the main accountability measure for schools at Key Stage 4.  It can be summarised in the diagram below:

Essentially, this means that all students must follow a curriculum which enables them to place qualifications in each of the Progress 8 “buckets”: English, Mathematics, any three other EBacc subjects and any three other “open group” subjects (these may be GCSEs or vocational qualifications). In order to make sure this is the case for all students, we ask all students to select at least two subjects from the EBacc subjects we offer at level 2, listed below:

• French

• Geography

• History

• Latin

• Spanish