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Department for Education · 13 December 2019 – 5 July 2024

Average Attainment 8 score during the Conservative 2019–2024 government

2018/19 academic year → 2022/23 academic year · 4 periods

↓ 0.9%−0.4 points

Average Attainment 8 score fell by 0.9% over the period, from 46.7 points (2018/19 academic year, the level when the government took office) to 46.3 (2022/23 academic year, the last complete period before it left office).

  1. Inherited level 2018/19 academic year: 46.7
  2. Level when it left 2022/23 academic year: 46.3
  3. method: latest complete period before start / before end

Changes during this period do not by themselves show what the government caused. Statistics reflect many influences, including earlier decisions, the economy and how the data is collected.

Average Attainment 8 score: 2018/19 academic year to 2024/25 academic yearConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour0204020192020202120222023202420252018/19 academic year: 46.7 points · published 4 August 20262019/20 academic year: 50.2 points · published 4 August 20262020/21 academic year: 50.9 points · published 4 August 20262021/22 academic year: 48.8 points · published 4 August 20262022/23 academic year: 46.3 points · published 4 August 20262023/24 academic year: 45.9 points · published 4 August 20262024/25 academic year: 46.1 points · published 4 August 2026
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Definition and caveats

The average Attainment 8 score of pupils at the end of key stage 4 in state-funded schools in England: their best eight GCSE results, weighted towards English and maths, scored 0 to 90.

Doesn’t measure: Results in independent schools, or comparisons across years in which grading standards were changed, including the 2020 and 2021 teacher-assessed grades.