What the league table cannot count
A sample explainer on the pupils who disappear from a school's published performance figures.
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Performance tables are not lies. They are answers to a narrower question than most readers assume they are asking.
The narrower question
The published figure answers: of the pupils on roll on census day and still on roll at assessment, what proportion met the threshold? Every clause in that sentence removes someone.
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