Ashmead leads local primary school improvers

The Department for Education's Key Stage 2 statistics have been updated and most of the area's schools have achieved significant improvements.

Ashmead School pupils achieved a huge leap in the number of pupils attaining Level 4 or above in reading, writing and maths - 97% (up from 82% in 2012). Other local improvers include:

- Grinling Gibbons 100% (versus 97% in 2012)
- Ashmead School 97% (versus 82%)
- Gordonbrock 95% (versus 82%)
- St Mary Magdelen's Catholic 89% (versus 80%)
- Beecroft Primary 85% (versus 83%)
- Edmund Waller 79% (versus 75%)
- Lucas Vale 79% (versus 78%)
- Myatt Garden 78% (versus 74%)
- Prendergast Vale 66% (versus 63%)

John Stainer fell from 89% to 83%. The Lewisham average was 83% (up from 81% in 2012), compared to an average in England of 75%.

In related news, congratulations to Beecroft, which has announced that it's been awarded outstanding school status by Ofsted.