Progress 8 Bandings
A Guide to Progress 8
This guide is designed to help alleviate the confusion between the different bandings.
It is also available as a video on our YouTube channel.
https://youtu.be/9xTPAs20BeA
Progress 8 Bandings
In early 2017 the DfE categorised schools into 5 different Progress Bandings:
But it is easy to get things wrong.
BBC News website
The BBC News website did so on 16 April 2019, when it said:
A school's performance is measured through pupils' progress, called Progress 8, via a scoring system of between -1 and 1, with the average being 0.A score lower than 0 is recognised as not achieving the minimum standard expected by the government, with -1 being well below average.
There are three things are wrong with these two sentences:
Firstly, Progress 8 is not a scoring system of between -1 and 1. There are no such arbitrary limits, and in 2018 there are 70 mainstream schools with a Progress 8 score below -1, and 50 schools above +1.A score...