2018 KS2 Performance Data is available in Arbor Insight now!

Cosima Baring - 4 October, 2018

Arbor Insight | Data | MATs

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2018 KS2 Performance Data is available in Arbor Insight now!

Good news, we’ve added the latest KS2 Analyse School Performance (ASP) data to Arbor Insight, our free benchmarking portal for schools & MATs! We’ve created a free portal for every school and MAT in the country to help analyse your latest ASP & finance data, giving you a simple, visual overview of how well your school or MAT is really doing. Read on to find out how your Arbor portal can help:

1. Inform your School Improvement Plan

2. Prepare for Ofsted inspections

3. Provide context to your governors

Inform your School Improvement Plan

Your free, interactive dashboards benchmark your school not just nationally and locally, but also against similar schools and Outstanding schools, helping you see your school’s performance in a more holistic context. From there, you can drill down to uncover which student groups are driving over or underperformance, and use this information to help set specific, measurable objectives for your school improvement strategy.

“I have found it incredibly useful for our MAT self-evaluation – it so clearly illustrates the impact of the MAT’s work at a simple touch of a button. The ability to compare our MAT and each academy to the outstanding schools average is also a brilliant feature, allowing us to evidence the impact of our aspirational target setting and provision.”

Jo Ashcroft, Director of Education at Aspire Educational Trust

Image 1: Our free interactive dashboards benchmark your performance against national, Outstanding, subject & demographic averages

Prepare for Ofsted inspections

Our Ofsted Readiness report has been designed to help you get ahead before your next Ofsted inspection. It predicts your next Ofsted grade and benchmarks your performance against “Good” and “Outstanding” schools, and clearly highlights which areas you’ll need to look into before the inspector calls. Once you understand the real story that your data is telling, you can have much more constructive conversations not only with Ofsted, but with stakeholders like your Governors to help you focus on your priority areas for the year ahead.

“The Ofsted Readiness report is outstanding. It’s very easy to read and understand. It’s well presented and the data crunching behind it gives us something we can’t get from other sources. That and the customer care makes this a product I promote to colleagues widely”

James Ayton, Headteacher at Walgrave Primary School

Image 2: Use our Ofsted Readiness Report as a school improvement tool ahead of your next inspection

Provide context to senior leaders and governors

The DfE’s ASP service creates scatter graphs and bar charts that are helpful for giving you a general  overview of your data, but you may need to look elsewhere to answer the key questions these graphs raise. In Arbor we help schools find these answers using plain text callouts to explain how significant a trend is, as well as displaying your data over a three year period to help contextualise your performance. Your Arbor portal also benchmarks different groups within your school against each other, and against national and local averages. Our PDF reports can be quickly and easily printed out to share with governors during meetings, giving them a clear, visual picture of how your school is doing.

“Arbor Insight reports are simple, clear and easy to understand, with an obvious colour system that explains pages of data in a digestible snapshot”

Richard Gasser, Headteacher at Park Junior School

Image 3: Our plain text call-outs explain the real story behind your data, making it easy to present to senior leaders and governors

We’ve been working hard to crunch your latest KS2 performance data into 7 personalised PDF reports that analyse your attainment & progress over the past 3 years, highlight gaps across your school and even predict your next Ofsted grade. These reports are now all available in your Arbor portal, and will automatically update with disadvantaged, FSM and KS1 data when it’s released by the DfE.

Click here to log in & access your 2018 reports and dashboards!

Don’t forget that you’re also invited to the free Insight training sessions that we’re holding across the country this term to help you get the most out of your reports & dashboards. You can click here to see the full agenda and book your place.

If you have any questions about how Arbor Insight can help your school better understand your data, give us a call on +44 (0) 207  043 1830 anytime, send us an email at insight@arbor-education.com!