Outcomes

“Assessment on entry to the school is thorough. Gaps in pupils’ knowledge are filled rapidly to enable success in external examinations.”– Ofsted 2019

 

Roman Fields prides itself on delivering outstanding outcomes for the pupils who attend. Our GCSE results are both the source and reflection of this pride. Below is a table showing results from the last four years. 

 

Roman Fields 4-year trend - all pupils	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022- 23
Attainment 8	24.3	29.1	30.6	36.2
GCSE  9-4 in English and Maths or equivalent	71%	63%	74%	64%
5 GCSEs 9-4 including English and Maths	21%	47%	63%	55%
5 GCSEs 9-4 including English, Maths and Science	21%	42%	63%	55%

 

Context: We are at a disadvantage in regard to Attainment 8 figures due to the length of time our pupils are with us and the number of subjects they can therefore access, particularly in consideration of the long abstractions from education that the pupils have typically suffered. However, the figures do help us to demonstrate and interrogate the ever-widening breadth of education we attempt to deliver for our pupils, and their attainment therein. This same disadvantage applies to an extent in regard to “5 GCSEs” measures, but the above figures demonstrate the effectiveness of our efforts to make sure the disadvantage does not translate to pupil attainment and outcomes.

 

"Outstanding teaching and highly effective individualised support results in all pupils learning exceptionally well." - Ofsted 2019

 

" These records show outstanding progress across all year groups and subjects." - Ofsted 2019

 

These results would not be possible without the outstanding progress made by our pupils. Many of our pupils come to the provision with significant gaps in their knowledge and lengthy abstractions from adequate education. It is therefore vital that we ensure rapid progress. Detailed below is our progress data from English and Maths, the core subjects that we believe underpin the rest of our success.

 

English	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23
% of pupils making expected or better progress	91	94	100
% pupils making exceptional progress	78	85	91
% pupils making 2 or more years of progress in one year	16	53	18

 

Maths	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23
% of pupils making expected or better progress	90	94	100
% pupils making exceptional progress	76	61	91
% pupils making 2 or more years of progress in one year	34	17	27

 

Progress in numbers accessing and achieving in Science

Year	Entered for Science (includes biology)	Percentage	Grade 4 and above	Grade 5 and above
2023	14	87.5	79%	71%
2022	12	63.2	100%	50%
2021	12	63.2	89%	50%
2020	6	46.2	67%	17%

 

We did a comparative year-on-year analysis of entries and results in Science because our focus continues to be on widening educational opportunities and outcomes to ever more pupils. Science is a particularly challenging subject in our school context because it relies upon a large pool of knowledge that is accumulated throughout a pupil’s entire school life. Our pupils tend to have extensive gaps in their learning and thus finding and filling these, whilst simultaneously building upon such prior learning that there is, can be very challenging. We are therefore especially proud of the growing number of pupils studying and succeeding in GCSE Science. We also had one pupil who sat a single GCSE in Biology and achieved a 5. If we included this in the figure it would be 68%.

 

GCSE results

 

Subject	Grades Awarded
	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2
Art & Design	1			1	1	1	1	3
Business studies		1	1	1
Computer sci		1	3
Film Studies			1	1	3		3	2
History		1		1	1

 

N.B. Roman Fields Academy is a pupil referral unit and as such does not appear on the DfE Performance measures website.