KS5 Accountability Measures

The government have reformed how schools and colleges are measured in order to set higher expectations, and to make the system fairer, more ambitious, and more transparent.

These measures are:

Progress
Attainment
English and Mathematics (for students who do not have a GCSE in these subjects at grade 4)
Retention
Destinations

Please see the information below for further details on each measure and how successful Plume College are against each measure.

KS5 Accountability Measures

Destinations

Successful schools and colleges support and prepare their students for future education, training and employment.

Plume Academy’s destination data for 2025 can be found: https://www.plume.essex.sch.uk/year-13-destinations

Progress and Attainment:

This measure uses value added progress to show how well students have progressed when compared with students with the same prior attainment. The measure for attainment shows the average grade that students attain across the academy in their A level and BTEC level 3 studies.

English and Mathematics

This measure shows the progress of students in English and Mathematics where they did not achieve at least a grade 4 at GCSE by the end of Key Stage 4.