Moving beyond the floor target: Various primary schools, Stoke-on-Trent LA

Chapters

1 Moving beyond the floor target: Various primary schools, Stoke-on-Trent LA
2 School-specific data
3 Local authority support and challenge
4 Acknowledgements and thanks

Date: Jan 2008
Programme: Improving Schools Programme (ISP)
Focus: Tackling underachievement in schools causing concern
Number in series: 17
Phase: Primary
Key stage: Key Stages 1 and 2
Local authority: Stoke-on-Trent
Ref: 00150-2008DWO-EN-01

Context

Focus on an LA where a number of Hard to Shift schools have gone above floor target.
How much is attributable to the systematic/effective work of the LA?
What worked and why?

The LA is Stoke on Trent, which is part of the 'Three Cities' Project. This case study, although it includes school specific data as an illustrative technique, focuses not on the perspective of the individual schools, but on the actions of the LA in supporting and challenging the Hard to Shift schools in the LA. The consequent progress that the identified schools have made can be directly attributed to the systematic work of Stoke on Trent LA.

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