5-14 Attainment: Mintlaw Cluster

SG Benzie made this Freedom of Information request to Aberdeenshire Council

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From: SG Benzie

2 July 2011

Dear Aberdeenshire Council,

Can you please provide the individual figures for each Primary
School in the Mintlaw Cluster which made up the APPENDIX 2 tables
(Reading, Writing and Maths Attainment) presented to the Buchan
Area Committee meeting on 22/02/2011.

Yours faithfully,

SG Benzie

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2 July 2011

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4 July 2011

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Please find attached, acknowledgement to your request for information under
the Freedom for Information Act

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Aberdeenshire Council
Education, Learning & Leisure

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Dear Applicant,

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SG Benzie left an annotation (13 September 2011)

Officers of the Council stated in their report to the Area Committee that
"It is not practicable to present a detailed school by school analysis for each school within Buchan Area." meaning primary school.

This request was provided in excel format. Subsequent request for other Clusters were met by providing a link to the Council's website where all Clusters within the Authority Attainment figures can be seen.

Unfortunately no explanation of the figures has been given.
I have taken note No1 from the NOTES ON MEASURES OF ATTAINMENT

"The 5-14 measures are the percentages of the cohorts attaining the specified Level by stage. For primary Clusters, this is the percentage of the aggregated
P3, P4, P6 and P7 roll attaining at least Levels A, B, C and D respectively. For secondaries, it is the percentage of the S2 cohort attaining at least Level
E by the end of this stage."

As this may assist users of the information.

I'm content this information is now available but disappointed that it wasn't done automatically. Thought might have been given to providing the smallest guidance to those accessing the information, which ended up being hosted on the Council's own site.

The briefest of time spent looking at the figures provided shows differences between two primaries in the same settlement, Mintlaw, of up to 65% in the percentage the cohort attaining the level.

These two schools are 900m or an eleven minute walk apart.

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