www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jan/19/grammar-schools...
The traditional pecking order of England’s secondary schools has been upended by the government’s new school performance measure, knocking grammar schools out of the top spots and boosting schools that dramatically improved results among their pupils.
The Department for Education’s latest performance tables, published on Thursday — including 2016’s GCSE exams and ranked by its new Progress 8 measure — reveals that the best schools in England are those which make the greatest advances in their pupils’ grades.
At the top of the national Progress 8 league table sit two faith schools in Blackburn run by the Tauheedul multi-academy trust, one of which, Tauheedul Islamic Boys’ high school, is a free school with its first full cohort sitting GCSEs.
