Tag: The Data Drop
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The Data Drop: National phonics results 2025
Phonics results are in, and in this edition of The Data Drop, we’ve crunched the numbers to see how this year’s outcomes compare with previous years, including across different demographic groups. If you’re new here, The Data Drop is our regular blog series where we share insights from our data warehouse, which holds data from…
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The Data Drop: Which school clubs are the most popular?
The Data Drop is back! And this time we’ve taken a look at which clubs are the most popular across primary and secondary schools. For those that are new here, The Data Drop is our series of blogs where we share insights from our data warehouse (containing the data of over 7,000 schools.) In this…
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The Data Drop: Have GCSE Results been affected by attendance and the pandemic?
We’ve crunched the numbers on over 3 million GCSE results to see how students have performed in their GCSEs this year versus last year. Over the past two years, there’s been a lot going on for both students and schools. These are the first normal “post-COVID” GCSEs, where students will most likely have studied for…
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The Data Drop: A Level Results Day 2024
We’ve had a really successful A Level results day at Arbor. Whilst our schools have been busy crunching their own data, we’ve been looking at the national picture for A Levels. As schools continue on the road to recovery after COVID, we wanted to compare the 2023 data to this year’s results to see if…
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The Data Drop: Three insights that should be on the new government’s mind
With Labour winning the election and ending 14 years of Conservative leadership, the new Education Secretary faces a difficult challenge. Attendance hasn’t recovered from the pandemic, schools are still struggling with the cost-of-living crisis, and wellbeing across staff and students is at an all time low. So, where should the new government start? Too often,…
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The Data Drop – Attendance of Pupil Premium eligible and SEN students
Welcome to Arbor’s Data Drop. Our philosophy at Arbor is that staff should have direct, easy access to their data – and be able to do something meaningful with it. Our MIS is built on a world-class data platform, which allows us to deliver things like national-level benchmarking to schools and trusts within seconds, rather…
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The Data Drop: Staff absence in schools
Welcome to The Data Drop. Our philosophy at Arbor is that staff should have direct, easy access to their data – and be able to do something meaningful with it. Our MIS is built on a world-class data platform, which allows us to deliver things like national-level benchmarking to schools and trusts within seconds, rather…