About MySchoolHub metrics and data sources

MySchoolHub brings together school profile data, performance measures and specialist entry context so parents can move from a broad search to a realistic shortlist without stitching together multiple government pages manually.

This About page explains the main metrics shown across the site, what the grammar and independent school sections add, and where each set of data comes from so you can interpret results with the right level of caution.

MySchoolHub is built around a broader schema than a simple league table. School profiles combine core school metadata with GCSE and KS2 performance, Ofsted inspection history, sixth form outcomes and map-ready location fields.

The backend also supports absence rates, suspensions and permanent exclusions, KS4 destination measures, subject-level GCSE grade distributions, subgroup breakdowns for filtered KS4 performance, and admissions or fee information for specialist entry pages.

That means these comparison pages can target real parent questions like how to compare Progress 8, English and maths, reading and maths scaled scores, destination outcomes, or Ofsted and admissions context in the same research journey.

For primary schools, MySchoolHub uses the Department for Education’s KS2 attainment measures. The current primary accountability guide defines the headline measures as the percentage achieving the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, the percentage achieving the higher standard in those three subjects combined, and average scaled scores in reading and maths.

The application also stores subject-level expected and higher-standard rates, grammar, punctuation and spelling expected-standard rates, science expected-standard rates, and historical reading, writing and maths progress scores where DfE has published them. Because DfE did not publish KS1-to-KS2 progress measures for the 2023/24 and 2024/25 cohorts, those progress fields may be blank for the latest years and older published progress values may be the most recent ones visible.

For secondary schools, MySchoolHub uses the DfE’s key stage 4 accountability measures. The core school-level fields in the application are Attainment 8, Progress 8, grade 5+ in English and maths, EBacc entry, EBacc grade 5+ attainment, EBacc average point score, and overall GCSE average points and average grade.

These measures should be read together rather than in isolation. Attainment 8 is a broad attainment score across eight approved qualifications, while Progress 8 is a value-added measure that compares pupils with others nationally who had similar prior attainment. The application also stores the Progress 8 confidence interval and Attainment 8 bucket splits for English, maths, EBacc and open slots.

Where a school has sixth-form provision, MySchoolHub stores 16 to 18 measures including A-level average point score per entry, A-level average point score per student, value-added progress, AAB or better, A*/A, average A-level grade, pass rate, completion rate, and retention measures for A level, applied general and tech-level pathways.

DfE’s 16 to 18 guidance treats attainment, progress and retention as distinct signals. In practice, that means a school can have strong A-level attainment but weaker retention, or solid retention with only average attainment. KS5 coverage is naturally narrower than KS2 or KS4 because many schools do not have sixth forms and some post-16 measures only apply to certain qualification cohorts.

The school list itself comes from the Department for Education’s Get Information about Schools service, which is the register of schools and colleges in England and includes both state-funded and independent establishments. In this application, grammar schools are identified from that metadata using selective admissions indicators and establishment type data rather than from a separate hand-curated list.

The entry-information panel is then built from source-backed pages on each school’s own website. The ingestion pipeline follows the school website URL held in GIAS and extracts only published admissions, entry, entrance exam, open-day, scholarship and fee information. For independent schools, the product can also link to the ISC school directory as a fallback source for fee and bursary context when the school website does not expose a clear fee table.

MySchoolHub’s Ofsted fields come from Ofsted’s published state-funded school inspections management-information files. The application stores the latest published inspection outcome for a school, including overall effectiveness where that still exists in the source file, the four key judgement fields, safeguarding effectiveness, inspection type, inspection date, publication date, category of concern and the report URL.

The judgement structure has changed over time. Ofsted’s own statistics state that from 1 September 2024, graded inspections of state-funded schools no longer include an overall effectiveness judgement, so newer inspections may only have the four key judgements and related provision outcomes. Older inspections in the latest-inspections dataset can still carry an overall effectiveness grade, which is why that field remains in the application.

MySchoolHub combines official DfE and Ofsted releases with school-published entry pages. In practice that means GIAS metadata for the school register, DfE school and college performance measures for KS2, KS4 and KS5, Ofsted management-information extracts for inspection outcomes, and school-published admissions or fee pages for grammar and independent entry content.

Because publication timing and coverage vary by source, some schools will have richer KS2, KS4, KS5, Ofsted or admissions detail than others. The product keeps those gaps visible so users can see when a field is not published, not applicable or not yet verified from a school source.