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Wolverhampton primary schools earn highest league table place in city's history

Wolverhampton has leapt up the primary school league tables by 34 places to reach its best-ever position.

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The city made a huge jump from 104 to 70 in the national Key Stage 2 rankings following solid results in the Sats exams. It is the highest position in Wolverhampton's history.

Councillor Phil Page, Wolverhampton City Council's education boss, said: "I'd like to congratulate our young people and their parents and teachers for helping to bring about a notable increase in standards.

"These Key Stage 2 outcomes are the best the city has ever achieved.

"That is down to the hard work of everyone involved and really stands our young people in good stead as they start secondary schools this week."

Provisional figures show city pupils also recorded significant improvements in all Key Stage 1 subjects this year. This means, in all subjects, the progress of pupils between Key Stages 1 and 2 is either at or above the national average.

A total of 91 per cent of pupils made expected progress between Key Stages 1 and 2 in reading, with the city ranked 68th in 2014 compared to 2013.

While 93pc of pupils made the expected progress in writing, on par with the national average and ranking the city 70th

In maths, 90pc of youngsters made the expected progress, ranking the city 68th compared to 98th in 2013.

Councillor Page said: "We're committed to helping schools improve and to driving up standards for our children and young people, and as part of this we've launched a programme of improvement which is already beginning to bear fruit.

"Of course all of us – schools, governors, parents and the council – have much more to do to continue improving standards from Early Years through to Key Stage 4, but it is pleasing to see that our younger students are making such good progress."

The figures also show that Early Years Foundation Stage students are making improvements in the early stages of their learning development.

A total of 56.5 per cent of five-year-olds in Wolverhampton reached a "good level of development" in personal social and emotional development, communication and language, physical development and literacy and mathematics in 2014, up 12 per cent on the previous year.

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