Results / Performance
The impact on pupil outcomes of the school’s focus on excellent teaching and learning is the extremely good end of year results. Excellent KS2 SATs results have been achieved by St Nicholas’ pupils in a year when schools have been challenged by the new testing and assessment system. St. Nicholas has been in the top 100 schools in the UK as listed in The Sunday Times 2019.
The following results from 2019 show the percentage of pupils who achieved the expected standard:
Key Stage 2
| St. Nicholas | Hertfordshire | National |
Average Scaled Score |
Progress | |
| Reading (test) | 100% | 72% | 80% | 111 | 3.34 |
| Writing (teacher assessment) | 91% | 79% | 83% | 111 | 0.51 |
| Grammar Punctuation, Spelling (test) | 100% | 76% | 72% | N/A | 1.2 |
| Maths (test) | 100% | 73% | 80% | 111 | 2.39 |
| Reading, Writing, Maths (combined) | 91% | 59% | 70% | N/A | N/A |
The following figures show the percentage of children achieving at a higher standard in Key Stage 2:
|
St Nicholas |
National |
|
|
Reading (test) |
55% |
28% |
|
Writing (teacher assessment) |
22% |
20% |
|
Maths (test) |
48% |
24% |
The following results from 2019 show the percentage of pupils who achieved the expected standard:
Key Stage 1
| St Nicholas | National | |
| Reading | 77% | 75% |
| Writing | 86% | 69% |
| Maths | 86% | 76% |
Please click below for the current school performance tables, as published by the Department for Education. These tables provide a further breakdown of results information.