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Top marks for Ealing primary schools (PR 1125)
Ealing Council's primary schools are among the best in the country for helping children to achieve their full potential.
Pupils in 26 of the borough's 65 primary schools are making significantly more progress than predicted. League tables just published show Ealing is one of the top councils for the Government's new value added indicator. Ealing is 11 out of 150 councils nationally for the measure, which shows how much schools help individual children to improve despite external barriers to learning, such as poverty.
Eight Ealing schools are ranked in the country's top five per cent for value added and two schools in Acton are in the top 100 primary schools - Berrymede Junior School is ranked 19 and St Vincent's Catholic Primary School is 98.
Southall has some of the most improved schools in the
country. Tudor Primary School is 22 and Three Bridges Primary
School is 39 in the country for significant, sustained
improvement.
And there have been improvements across the board in core
subjects. In maths 78 per cent of 11 year olds at primary
school in Ealing are now reaching the target Level 4 - that's
up three per cent on a year ago and better than the national
average. And 80 per cent are making the grade in
English - up one per cent on 2006.
Councillor Ian Gibb, Cabinet Member for Children's Services, said: "We're pleased to see that across the borough primary schools are improving and children are getting better in key subjects like maths and English. It's also particularly good to see so many Ealing schools in the top five per cent nationally for helping children to reach their full potential.
"It's solid progress and the teachers and pupils who've worked so hard to achieve these results should be congratulated, but there's still more we can do and we hope we’ll continue to see improvements year on year."
Ealing also has more primary school children reaching Level 5, achieving more than expected for a child of that age. This year 34 per cent have reached Level 5 in English, with a five per cent improvement on last year and 35 per cent are exceeding expectations in maths, following a two per cent rise.
There has also been a big reduction in primary school absence, with the number of sessions missed by primary school pupils in Ealing falling from 6.1 per cent in 2005-06 to 5.3 per cent this year.