and (4) more than 30 – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by and (4) more than 30 on 2015-12-10.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, on the current definition of coasting”

Lord Nash

No school can be defined as coasting under the government’s proposed coasting definition until after the 2016 results are available. The definition of coasting is determined by performance over a three year period.

Progress 8 results for 2015 will be published as part of the key stage 4 performance tables in January 2016 for schools which chose to opt-in early. Progress 8 was not used as an accountability measure in 2014, and does not form part of the government’s proposed definition for coasting in that year.