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Year group statistics - explanatory notes

KS4 Statistics Wales

The statistics shown in GO 4 Schools are driven by the qualifications attached to your subjects. Selecting the correct qualification provides us with performance points, average point scores, level 2 threshold contribution, discount code and pathway information. You can review these values for the qualifications selected in your markbooks by clicking on a qualification on the Subjects and qualifications page, this link will take you directly to the Qualifications in Wales (QiW) website. 

Do you want to see the influence of actual grades in your other grade types? See the article on How actual grades are used in GO 4 Schools.

  • To change this on a school-wide basis, a school manager can use settings on the Curriculum > Grade & residual settings page. By default, these settings will be honoured for statistics throughout GO 4 Schools. Under each individual grade type is a setting called Actual grades included. You can choose whether to include all actual grades, previous academic year actual grades, or no actual grades for each grade type.

Tips for investigating your statistics

  • View the Subjects and qualifications page by year group to get an overview of the qualifications attached to your subjects. Where a subject does not show a discount code, it will not be counting in your KS4 statistics.
  • Clicking on the values in the key statistics will show you which students are being included in the measures.
  • To investigate the contributing grades for an individual student, it is useful to look at the Capped 9 student breakdown page. This can be found by clicking through from the data explorers or the student page. This breakdown will show you all grades including previous actual grades, with discount codes, and highlight which grades count in their KS4 attainment.
  • An overview of Year group statistics in Wales can be found here.

Inclusion/Exclusion of students in statistics

A student is included in statistics if they satisfy the following rules which can be checked via the Student attributes page:

  • On roll: Student has an "On roll" status of Yes.
  • Enrollment status: Student has an "Enrollment status" of Single registration or Main - Dual registration.
  • Student status: Student is not a leaver and has group membership.

Special Cases:

  • Student statistics rule: This attribute allows your school to specifically include or exclude a student from your statistics (for example, you may wish to discount FEWBES using this methodology).
  • January PLASC: For year groups 11, 12 & 13 if a student is a leaver after the January PLASC date for the academic year they will be locked into GO 4 Schools and included in your statistics.

Welsh government rules

We apply the following Welsh government rules to the KS4 statistics:

  • The maximum equivalence rating for any non-GCSE qualification at 14-16 will be two GCSEs. Those Level 1 or 2 qualifications currently counting as equivalent to more than two GCSEs will have their performance points value capped at the equivalent of two GCSEs. This will impact on Level 1, Level 2 and Level 2 inclusive threshold measures, but not the updated Capped 9.
  • First Entry rules - GO 4 Schools will apply the first entry rule to all uploaded GCSE actuals.
  • Discounting & Pathways - Our stats are calculated to take into account discount codes and pathways. Please see the QiW website for list of discount codes. Discounting is between families of qualifications. 

Capped 9

The article Calculating Capped 9 – Post 2018 outlines the details of this performance measure. 

Tool tip - When you hover over the score for the Avg. Capped 9 score per student, you will also see it expressed as an average grade. i.e. Average grade is between GCSE grades C and D.

How can I find out more information about the score?

Clicking on the score for any Capped 9 measures will take you to a data explorer page showing all of the students in the year group along with their individual contribution towards the Capped 9 score.

Additional key statistics (no longer key performance measures)

Other measures in Wales are described in the article Analysing KS4 data in Wales.

  • Threshold measures - a volume of qualifications at Level 1 and Level 2 equivalent to the volume of 5 GCSE's at grade A*- G and A*-C respectively, including English or Welsh First Language and Mathematics. There will be a 40% limit on the contribution of non-GCSEs to the Level 1, Level 2 and L2 inclusive threshold measures.