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Ealing schools are grade A according to league tables (PR 1142)

Ealing high schools are among the best in the country for helping children to achieve their full potential.

New attainment tables out today show Ealing is eighth out of 150 councils nationally for helping individual children to improve academically from the age of 11 to 16.  Ealing scored 1013.3 for the value added measure, which shows how much schools help children improve despite external barriers to learning, such as poverty. 

Cardinal Wiseman Catholic High School in Greenford and Featherstone High School in Southall, are among the top five per cent of schools nationally for adding value from Key Stage 2 to 4.  And Twyford Church of England High School in Acton is in the top five per cent of schools for helping children progress from Key Stage 3 to 4.

Councillor Ian Gibb, Cabinet Member for Children’s Services, said: "All children start out with differing abilities, so this is a really important measure because it helps us to see how much our schools help children to improve.  I'm delighted that our high schools are among the best in the country for helping children to achieve their full potential. 

"Our children have also done better in their GCSEs than before and they’re performing better then the national average.  The teachers and pupils in the borough’s schools who’ve worked so hard year after year to achieve these results should be very proud of their achievements."

The proportion of Ealing students achieving five or more A* to C grade GCSEs or equivalent, including English and maths, has now risen to 49.1 per cent, up from 48.8 per cent last year and better than the national average of 46.7 per cent.  Ealing is the eighth best council for sustained improvement in this measure, with a 10 per cent improvement since 2004 compared to an improvement of just three per cent nationally.

Sixty-two per cent of students are now achieving five A* to C grades or equivalent by the end of Key Stage 4, while 94 per cent are achieving five A* to G grades or equivalent.