Pupil Progress & Attainment

It is important to remember that as a middle school, the progress pupils make must be judged from the time they join the school in year 5 to when they leave in year 8.  The DfE judges middle schools using the national comparator based on progress from end of KS1 (end of year 2) to end of KS2 (end of year 6).  This comparator does not take into account that 50% of KS2 (year 3 and 4) relates to time when the pupils were not attending middle school.  It also does not acknowledge the progress made by pupils in years 7 and 8 (KS3). 

Parkside Middle School, along with all the middle schools in the Bromsgrove, use externally benchmarked, moderated and validated assessments to judge the progress pupils make across the four years at the school. Pupils are tested in English and Maths at the end of each year and on entry into year 5 to provide us with robust and accurate data to measure pupil progress.