1. Understanding ASP and FFT Data
Benchmarking your school’s performance through use of Fischer Family Trust and ASP.
Welcome

2. Aims of this session
To look at how governing boards use Fischer Family Trust (FFT Aspire) and Analysing School Performance (ASP) data to benchmark their school's performance.
To undertake a 'walk-through' the ASP summary pages and FFT Aspire governor dashboard.

3. Why do we benchmark? ?

4. Why do we benchmark?

5. Benchmarking questions
How does our pupil attainment compare to national?
How does our pupil progress compare to national?
Which are our higher, and lower, performing groups?
How are we performing in different subjects?
How are our disadvantaged pupils doing – what impact is the pupil premium grant having?
How does our pupil attendance and exclusions data compare to national?

6. Benchmarking questions
How well do our Key Priorities – as set out in the School Development Plan- seek to address the lower performing subject areas and groups?
Where are our biggest ‘gaps’ – and what are we doing to address them?
What other questions could we ask, in our support and challenge role?

7. The benchmarking ‘tools’
Analysing School Performance (ASP) – includes the Ofsted Inspection Data Summary Report (IDSR).
Fischer Family Trust (FFT Aspire)
others are available.
PLUS
Compare Schools Performance (DfE’s website)

8. Analysing School Performance
Published by the DfE: schools have a secure login.
There are two types of summary report:
Ofsted IDSR report School performance summary

9. Analysing School Performance
Ofsted inspection data summary report:
The IDSR is a tool showing historical data for inspectors to use when preparing for inspections. During inspection, inspectors will give most weight to the outcomes, attendance and behaviour of pupils currently in the school, taking account also of historical data.
Primaries - new format coming soon (see handout).

10. Analysing School Performance
School performance summary report:
Replaced RaiseOnline reports in 2017
Can be downloaded as a pdf – about 40 pages long for primary & secondary schools.
Compares your school’s KPIs with both National and Local Authority values. Gives 3 year average and time- series charts for monitoring trends (KS2 - new 2018).
Bar graphs at top level. Tables (broken down by groups) and scatter charts for digging deeper.

11. Analysing School Performance
School performance summary benchmarks for:
EYFS (reception) – Early Learning Goals
Phonics screening check (yr 1)
Key Stage 1 (yr 2) - Outcomes of SATs
Key Stage 2 (yr 6) - Outcomes of SATs and progress
Key Stage 4 (yr 11) - Outcomes of GCSEs & approved vocational qualifications and progress
Separate section for benchmarking the disadvantaged pupils.

12. Analysing School Performance
EYFS – Primary / Infant / First Schools
The ‘Explore data in detail’ hyper- link => a table with breakdowns by group and subject.

13. Analysing School Performance
EYFS – Primary / Infant / First Schools
In this table, each Early Learning Goal is bench- marked against national for:
All pupils
Boys / Girls
Disadvantaged -‘Ever6’ (against the national figure for the non- disadvantaged group)
Non-disadvantaged

14. Analysing School Performance
KS1 – Primary / Infant / First Schools
Benchmarks for:
Percentage reaching At least Expected Standard and Greater Depth in Reading, in Writing and in Maths at the end of KS1.
Phonics screening for Yr 1 and (for those who did not pass the threshold in Yr 1) for Yr 2

15. Analysing School Performance
KS2 – Primary / Junior / Middle Schools
Benchmarks for:
Expected Standard or Higher and Higher Standard – in Combined Reading, Writing and Maths, and in the individual subjects (including Spelling Punctuation and Grammar, and Science) at the end of KS2.
Average scaled scores.
Progress made from end of KS1 to end of KS2.

16. Analysing School Performance
KS4 – Secondary / Upper Schools
Benchmarks for:
Progress 8
Attainment 8
Percentage achieving grade 5+ in English & Maths
Percentage entering English Baccalaureate
Previously: Percentage achieving EBacc (grade 5+) New for EBacc Average Point Score
Pupil destination measure

17. Analysing School Performance
KS4 – Progress 8
Progress 8 was introduced in 2016 as the headline indicator of school performance at Key Stage 4.
A Progress 8 score is calculated for each pupil by comparing their Attainment 8 score with the average Attainment 8 of all pupils nationally who had a similar starting point.
The school’s Progress 8 score is calculated as the average of its pupils’ Progress 8 scores. It gives an indication of whether, as a group, the pupils in the school made above or below average progress, compared to similar pupils in other schools.

18. Analysing School Performance
KS4 – Secondary / Upper Schools
An example table in the KS4 report:
Note the groups:
- Low Prior Attainment
- Middle Prior Attainment
- High Prior Attainment
Benchmarking by prior attainment starts in Key Stage 1 – governors should be tracking these groups.

19. Analysing School Performance
The ASP reports are updated by the DfE several times over the year (provisional data -> revised data / final data).
Mid-November 2018:
EYFS – still final 2017 data (provisional 2018 data is due early 2019)
Phonics & Key Stage 1 – provisional 2018 data, but the disadvantaged pupil benchmarks are not yet available
Key Stage 2 - provisional 2018 data (including disadvantaged)
Key Stage 4 – still final 2017 data (provisional 2018 is data due at end of November, and is already in FFT Aspire)

20. Fisher Family Trust Aspire
FFT Aspire dashboard for school leaders and governors – 8 page summary reports for Key Stages 1, 2 & 4
Plus interactive online reports (governor login required)
Uses the same source data as ASP. Creates additional ‘FFT rankings’.
Does not include EYFS, phonic screening, exclusion data or LA figures to benchmark against.
Graphs showing 3 year trends – progress over time
November ‘18 – The KS2 and KS4 provisional data dashboards are available. KS1 due soon.

21. FFT Dashboard Walk Through
We will use a sample FFT KS2 summary report (see hand- out), but the FFT dashboard is more or less the same for KS1 and KS4. We will highlight any key differences.

22. FFT Report 1: Overview Page
Attainment is on the LHS and Progress on the RHS
Key Stage 1: Expected Standard & Higher Standard (RWM)
Key Stage 2: Average Scaled Score (RM) & Expected Standard.
Key Stage 4: Attainment 8, English & 4+ & Progress 8

23. What is significance?
The dashboard gives a snap-shot of the headline indicators and whether these deviate significantly from the National. The up/down arrows indicate a significant change from last year.

24. Threshold / Average (terminology)
Threshold measures: eg % Expected Standard; % Higher Standard, % attain grade 5+ in English & Maths Average measures: eg Average scaled score, Attainment 8, Progress 8, EBacc Average Point Score, Average Grade

25. What is FFT Value Added?

26. FFT Report 1: Overview Page
Table of higher & lower performing groups based on progress.
KS1: Overall plus Reading, Writing and Maths.
KS4: Overall plus English & Maths. Subjects (progress).

27. FFT Report 2: Attainment and Progress
Same measures as per the dashboard, performance over 3 years
KS1: Expected / Higher standard KS4: Attmt 8, 4+, Prog 8

28. FFT Report 2: Performance summary
KS4: Also has Grade 5+ and a range of other indicators.

29. FFT Report 3: Pupil Groups

30. FFT Report 4: Subjects
KS4: Has a ‘waterfall’ diagram as for pupil groups (report 3)

31. FFT Report 5: Disadvantaged Pupils
Key Stage 1 – ‘Expected Standard or higher’ in Reading, Writing and Maths
Key Stage 4 – Attainment 8 and Progress 8

32. FFT Report 5: Disadvantaged Sub-Groups

33. FFT Report 6: Scatter Plot

34. FFT Report 7: Context

35. Any questions? ?

36. Recap support & challenge questions:
How well do our Key Priorities – as set out in the School Development Plan- match up with the lower performing subject areas and groups?
Where are our biggest attainment and progress ‘gaps’ – and what are we doing to address them?