Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177176 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11372
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We explore the variation in pupil attainment at the end of secondary schooling in England. The paper links data on all schools and all pupils within these schools to analyse the role of the school in accounting for this variation. We analyse a number of different indicators of pupil attainment including value added between the end of primary and secondary schooling and attainment levels at the end of secondary schooling. We examine indicators that were the focus of the school accounting framework as well as others indicators that were not directly part of how schools were assessed. We show that schools account for a minority of the variance in pupil attainment, and the extent of the variation accounted for by the school is sensitive to the measure of pupil attainment used. In addition, we find that the majority of the explained school level variance in attainment is related to school composition. However, most of the variance in pupil attainment remains unexplained, raising questions about what other factors contribute to the variation in school performance.
Subjects: 
schools
school performance
pupil attainment
JEL: 
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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