Tag: The Data Drop
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The Data Drop: Five key insights from GCSE Results Day 2025
In this Results Day instalment of The Data Drop, we’ve analysed over 6.75 million GCSE results from across the Arbor community. We’ve focused on some of the headline measures that matter most to schools and MATs, and below you’ll find our key takeaways from this year’s results. – 5+ GCSEs at Grade 9–4 including English and…
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The Data Drop: GCSE Results gap widens for Disadvantaged students
In this edition of The Data Drop, we’ve analysed over 1.4 million GCSE results from schools in the Arbor community. Our focus is on the attainment gap, looking at how results differ between students flagged as Disadvantaged and those who are not. The Department for Education defines a student as Disadvantaged if they have been…
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The Data Drop: Which students go on the most trips?
Looking back at the last academic year, which students took the most trips? Our graphs below show how many trips each year group or demographic taken per 100 students. – The number of trips in different school phases Overall, the average primary school student went on 2.5 school trips this year, compared with 1.9 in…
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The Data Drop: A breakdown A Level Results by subject area
In this edition of The Data Drop, we’ve analysed over 200,000 A-Level results from schools in the Arbor community. Below, you’ll find an in-depth breakdown of results from each subject area. We’ve grouped qualifications using their Discount Code and Subject Specific Area, following the 16 to 18 qualifications, discount codes and point scores framework. In…
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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: 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…