2023/24 and 2024/25 Key Stage 2 Performance Measures

As primary tests and assessments were cancelled in academic years 2019/20 and 2020/21 due to COVID-19 disruption, there will be no relevant KS1 data which is required to calculate primary progress measures for 2023/24 and 2024/25.

Given the lack of a statistically robust alternative baseline to calculate primary progress measures, the Department for Education (DfE) will not be producing or publishing primary progress measures for 2023/24 and 2024/25 and instead will only publish the usual attainment measures as set out in the Primary school accountability measures guide for these years.

The DfE considered using each of the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP), Phonics Screening Check (PSC) and the Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) as an alternative baseline, but concluded that these all had statistical issues which made them unsuitable.

They intend to return to producing progress measures using KS1 assessments in 2025/26 and 2026/27, ahead of the introduction of Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA)-KS2 progress measures from 2027/28.