Church Primary Schools Come Out On Top in League Tables

|TOP|The latest primary school league table has just been released, with the Church of England and Roman Catholic schools composing two thirds of the top primary schools in England, reports The Telegraph.

The number of Church of England and Roman Catholic primary schools scored the highest proportion of top-performing primary schools despite amounting to only two thirds of primary schools in England overall.

Top of the table that ranks schools by the proportion of 11-year-olds who achieved Level 5 – the standard expected of 13-year-olds - was Combe, a Church of England primary in Witney, Oxfordshire, with a perfect aggregate score of 300.

In the table of 200 schools where all the pupils achieved at least the expected Level 4 in this year’s national tests in English, mathematics and science, was South Farnham in Surrey, with 117 pupils.

|AD|The five local authorities to top the league tables, published last Friday by the Department for Education, were the predominantly middle-class areas of Richmond-upon-Thames, Trafford, Kingston-upon-Thames, Rutland and Wokingham.

The five bottom authorities were the largely working-class areas of Hackney, Nottingham City, Leicester City, Southwark and Bristol City.

The annual statistics detailed the league table positions of 17,000 primary schools in England.

The figures reveal that the proportion of all 11-year-olds who reached the expected Level 4 this year was 79 per cent in English, 75 per cent in maths and 86 per cent in science, bringing the aggregate score to 240 out of a possible 300.

According to the statistics, however, only 57 per cent – 51 per cent of boys and 62 per cent of girls – reached the expected level in all three of reading, writing and arithmetic.

Meanwhile, the number of 11-year-olds reaching the expected Level 5 stood at 27 per cent in English, 31 per cent in maths and 47 per cent in science, totalling an aggregate score of 105.