Curriculum Key Stage 2

The latest national statistics on Interim Percentage of Pupils Making Expected Progress in English and in Mathematics between Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 in England, 2010/11 produced by the Department for Education were released on 29 September 2011 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

This Statistical First Release (SFR) provides a short time series of the percentage of pupils making expected progress in each of English and mathematics between Key Stage 1 (KS1) and Key Stage 2 (KS2).

The statistics within this SFR are at national, regional and local authority levels. It provides progression data for pupils reaching the end of KS2 in 2011 based on a revised methodology which takes into account results from KS2 Teacher Assessments for pupils who did not achieve a level 3-5 outcome in the KS2 National Curriculum tests.


The statistics for the 2010/11 academic year will be revised in late 2011.

Key Points

The percentages of pupils making the expected progress in each of English and mathematics in 2011 are as follows:

• 83 per cent in English (86 per cent for girls and 81 per cent for boys)
• 82 per cent in mathematics (82 per cent for girls and 83 per cent for boys)

How well are English primary school children learning math’s and English?

Progress from key stage 1 to key stage 2 - the levels reached by seven-year-old children in England.

The key figures that come out of the data are:
• Almost 106,000 seven-year-olds have failed to reach level 2 – the standard expected of the age group – in writing
• More than 83,000 pupils have a reading age of a five-year-old or lower. And over 58,000 children are falling behind the expected standard in math’s
• The majority, 85%, reached the expected level or higher in reading, 81% achieved it in writing, 90% made at least level 2 in math’s and 89% reached it in science
• The percentages of pupils achieving level 3 – one above the required standard – in each of these subjects has remained static this year, except in science, where it dropped from 21% to 20%.

Boys are still slightly behind girls, with 89% seven-year-old girls reaching level 2 or higher in reading, compared with 82% of boys. In writing, 87% of girls scored at least level 2 compared with three-quarters (76%) of boys, and in math’s there was a gap of three percentage points, with 91% of girls achieving the expected level against 88% of boys.

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