和私立学校对比,300算私校联盟学校的成绩Level 4几乎100%,Level 5 50%。
http://www.isc.co.uk/press/press-releases/older/2003-09-24
Key Stage 2 test results from more than 300 preparatory schools, released today, show that ever higher numbers of their 11-year-old pupils are outperforming their state school contemporaries.
Almost all the 11,000 pupils who took the tests this year achieved the nationally-expected Level 4, with more than half reaching Level 5. More than two-thirds achieved Level 5 in science and more than half in English, according to figures released today by the Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools (IAPS).
The proportion of prep school pupils achieving the expected Level 4 continues to exceed comfortably the national average in all three subjects.
A gender analysis at key stage 2 shows that the performance of girls and boys in prep schools is similar, with girls ahead in English, slightly ahead in science, but boys slightly ahead in maths.
IAPS chairman Simon Carder, headmaster of Eagle House School, in Berkshire, commented: "Once again, these results demonstrate how well prep schools succeed in getting the basics right. High quality teaching and the early introduction of subject specialist teaching help children, very few of whom have been selected for their ability, to achieve outstanding results.
“But these results do not tell the whole story about prep schools. Excellent primary education includes much more than the three basic skills measured by the national tests. That is why we do not publish individual schools’ results; ‘league tables’ based on such figures would be a distortion of the quality of prep school education.”
The 2003 Key Stage 2 test results are summarised below:
Level 4 & above Level 5 & above
IAPS schools National IAPS schools National
English 96% 74% 52% 26%
Maths 93% 72% 53% 28%
Science 99% 86% 69% 40%
Boys’ and girls’ results (IAPS schools only):
Level 4 & above Level 5 & above
Boys Girls Boys Girls
English 95% 98% 46% 62%
Maths 92% 93% 55% 50%
Science 97% 99% 69% 71%
Independent schools are not obliged to follow the national curriculum or to use the SATs. The IAPS Key Stage 2 results are aggregated from those schools (approximately 60 per cent of the membership) which have used the tests and had their results externally validated and processed by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA).