King’s Preparatory School
Key Stage 2 Test Results - May 2009
For the last five years, King's Preparatory School has topped the Medway School's Key Stage 2 performance tables and, celebrated further success this week (7 December 2009) with the publication of the Key Stage Two Assessment Test results by Schools Minister, Diana Johnson. With an aggregate score of 285 points per pupil from the English, Mathematics and Science tests sat in May this year, King’s pupils exceeded the national average by 38 points. Once again the school out-performed all but one of the 65 primary schools in Medway, with King’s pupils scoring 53 points per child above the average recorded in this authority.
Given the breadth of the intake and the wide focus of the curriculum, the School’s achievements are especially commendable. They are testimony to the benefits of small-class teaching, the dedication and skill of the Preparatory School’s specialist staff, and the pupils’ endeavours.
The continued success comes at a time when the Minister for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls, admits that progress among 11-year-olds is "slowing down" and that more primary schools have slipped below the government's minimum target.
- 93% of all King’s pupils in this age-group achieved level 4 or above (level 4 being the standard expected to be within the compass of a typical pupil aged 11 years) in English, Mathematics and Science. This represents a 5% improvement on the results recorded nationally.
- In Science, all but one pupil achieved level 4 or better. This result betters the national figures by 10%. In English and Mathematics the number of children achieving level 4 was 13% and an impressive 16% higher than the national results, respectively.
- 12 pupils (29% of those entered) achieved a level 5 or better in every discipline, a level appropriate for a 13-year-old.
- In English, Mathematics and Science the number of pupils who achieved level 5 exceeded the national figures by 13%, 14% and 28%, respectively.
- King’s pupils recorded an average points score per individual child of 29.93, compared to the 2009 national average of 27.6
- King’s pupils achieved an average level of 4.49, whereas the national average achieved in the 2009 Key Stage Two tests was 4.03.
Key Stage 2 - Assessments 2009
English
Mathematics
Science
