STROUD High and Marling score above national average in both new secondary school performance schemes.

The Department of Education (DoE) released the latest secondary school rankings after they were assessed under two new schemes, Progress 8 and Attainment 8.

Progress 8 scores the difference in a pupil’s grade between the end of Key Stage 2 (aged 11) and the end of Key Stage 4 (aged 16) compared to pupils across England who achieved similar results in up to eight subjects at the end of Key Stage 2.

This achieves a score between -1 and 1, which are split in to bands of above average, average, below and well below.

Attainment 8 ranks pupils by how well they performed in up to eight topics, with a score out of 80.

Stroud High (0.43), Rednock (0.23) and Marling School (0.20) were all rated above average in Progress 8.

The average score across England was -0.03.

Eight schools in Stroud District were above the national average in Attainment 8.

Stroud High (69.6), Marling, (66.8), Wynstones (62.3), Wycliffe College (57.8), Focus School – Berkeley Campus (56), Rednock (52.6), Archway (50.9) and Thomas Keble (50.5).