Overview
Information on schools – such as type of school, address and phone number, the age range of its pupils, headteacher’s name - are taken from Edubase
( www.education.gov.uk/edubase ). The performance tables website presents this information on each school ’s summary page, which you can get to by clicking on a school’s name in ‘search results’.
Pupil characteristics data is taken from information provided by schools themselves in the January 2014 School Census. The performance tables give data on the overall number of pupils, split of boys/girls, percentage of pupils who are on free school meals, have special educational needs, have
English as an additional language etc. You can find this by clicking on each school’s summary page or under the ‘cohort information’ tab.
Suppression
Denominators (e.g. the cohort number on which calculations are based) have been suppressed if where there are fewer than 6 pupils, and have been published as “SUPP”.
Numerators (e.g. the number in the cohort achieving a particular standard) have been suppressed if numbers are fewer than 3, and have been published as “SUPP”.
Coverage
The list below details the school types that are included:
 Maintained primary
 Maintained secondary
 City technology colleges
 Academies o o o sponsor-led primary converter secondary converter
 Free schools
 Special - maintained (excluding general hospital)

Notes for fields
Fields showing pupil numbers
Includes sole and dual main registered pupils.
Number of pupils used for Free School Meals
(FSM) calculation
Includes solely and dually registered pupils and boarding pupils who are full time and aged 0 to 15 or part time and aged 5 to 15
Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for
FSM
Includes solely and dually registered pupils and boarding pupils who are full time and aged 0 to 15 or part time and aged 5 to 15
Percentage of pupils with English not as a first language
Includes pupils of compulsory school age and above only
Percentage of pupils with Special
Educational Needs
(SEN) with statements or in School Action
Plus
Statement
– a pupil has a statement of special educational needs when a formal assessment has been made. A document setting out the child’s needs and the extra help they should receive is in place. School Action Plus
– where the class teacher and the SEN coordinator receive advice or support from outside specialists (the specialist teacher, an educational psychologist, a speech and language therapist or other health professionals)
Calculations for fields
Field Calculation
Full-time equivalent (FTE) pupils
Number of part-time pupils divided by 2 + number of full-time pupils
Number of pupils on roll
Number of part-time pupils + number of full-time pupils
Percentage of pupils with
SEN with statements or in
School Action Plus
Number of pupils with special educational needs with statements or in School Action Plus expressed as a percentage of total number of pupils on roll
Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals (FSM)
Number of pupils known to be eligible for FSM expressed as a percentage of the total number of pupils on roll (used for FSM calculation – see above)

Percentage of pupils with
English not as a first language
Number of pupils with English not as a first language expressed as a percentage of the total number of pupils of compulsory school age and above