Exam successes on the rise in Birmingham schools
One of the schools to improve is Harborne Hill, which has taken its five A*-Cs including English and maths from 15 per cent to 34 per cent.
Head teacher Andy Wright said: “I am delighted we have gone through the final threshold and very proud of what we have achieved.”
Further success was achieved at the other end of the scale, both among seven-year-olds at Key Stage 1 and reception children aged four and five.
At Key Stage 1, the number of pupils achieving level 2 or above in both reading and writing increased by two percentage points to 80 per cent and 76 per cent respectively.
And, at the early years stage, Birmingham achieved seven of 11 new targets based around personal, social and emotional development and communication, language and literacy.
This is against the background of considerable deprivation and disadvantage, with 77 per cent of early years Birmingham children living in the 30 per cent most deprived areas nationally.
At the same time, 43 per cent of children in both early years and Key Stage 1 have English as an additional language - three times the national average.
The one area of real concern is at Key Stage 2 where the proportion of the city’s 11-year-olds achieving the expected level 4 or above fell one per cent for both English and science, to 76 per cent and 85 per cent respectively.
This has resulted in the number of city schools falling below the Government’s target of at least 55 per cent level 4 and above in English and maths increasing from 48 last year to 58 now.
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