Improving schools: full plan - Learning Wales - Welsh Government

Figure 5: Absence in schools by local authority (2011)% school sessions missed, all absences (2011)11109876543210Source: Pupils' Attendance Recordprimary and specialsecondaryHow are we doing across our schools?Figure 6 shows that the percentage of Year 11 learners attaining the expected level atsecondary school typically decreases as the proportion of e-FSM learners in the schoolincreases (when looking left to right across the chart). Schools with less than five percente-FSM learners typically have over 70 per cent of their learners attaining the expected level.For schools with more than 30 per cent e-FSM learners, the percentage of learners attainingthis level is below 40 per cent. For any given percentage of e-FSM learners, performancevaries between schools (looking up and down the chart). For example, the performance ofschools with 15 per cent e-FSM learners ranges from 40 per cent to 60 per cent: that is,schools with similar levels of challenge can have differences of up to 20 percentagepoints in learners attaining the expected level. The equivalent analysis for primary schoolsshows a similar pattern, albeit not as strong, with the percentage of Year 6 learnersattaining the expected level typically decreasing as the proportion of e-FSM learners in theschool increases.Improving schools9