In order for the Attainment and Progress Reports to work, appropriate expectations need to be set.

NB These settings are only available to SLT users. Changing them will change the expectations settings for all users in a school. At the bottom of each report there is a key which outlines the Attainment Ranges and Progress Settings for each user's reference.


Attainment Ranges


These govern how attainment scores are classified as Significantly Below, Below, At, Above and Significantly Above in the School Overview, Year Group Overview and Class Group Overview reports.

The controls can be found below the report buttons on the 'Progress' selections screen. Click 'Show Attainment Ranges' if they do not appear.

1. Select Curriculum: If your reports are set to use more than one curriculum, then you will need to select and set expectations for each curriculum in turn. Only markbook curriculums that have assessment for the current academic year that have been mapped in the admin area will be available in the dropdown.

2. Tick/untick 'Override All Years' box:

  • If this box is ticked, you can set expectations for all years at once.
  • To set expectations for all year groups individually, you should untick this box.

Depending on your choice, you will have access to one slider or a slider per year group.

3. Set attainment expectations using slider(s):

  • If the 'override all years box' is ticked, the scores shown will not include the ability level (e.g. Dev not 2 Dev) which is why they can be set for the whole school at once if you choose.
  • There are no rules around how scores should be classified, it is a school-based decision.
  • Which attainment category a score appears in is likely to change through the year, so it is important that you check that these settings are appropriate each time you run a report.


The way that the sliders work depends on whether your curriculum uses scores (e.g. 4 Beg) or whether it uses percentages (e.g. 20% of Stage 4).


Scored curriculums: The slider shows the categories that are used in the reports. Each score available in the selected curriculum will appear as a slidable button. Slide each button it higher or lower so that it appears in the correct attainment category for the selected date.

In this example, 'Dev+' is being placed in the 'AT' group. As you can see more than one score can be placed in a category and a category can be empty.




Percentage curriculums: The slider shows the percentage range available. There are four slidable buttons. If you click on a button you can see the category that button represents. Slide the button to the highest score that would be in that category.

In this example:

  • Significantly below is 0-16%
  • Below is 17-39%
  • AT is 40-59%
  • Above is 60 -80%
  • Significantly above is 81-100%


Scores outside of the ability level associated with a year group will not appear on the slider. Any scores below the ability level associated with that year group will automatically be placed into Significantly Below. Any scores above the ability level associated with that year group will automatically be placed into Significantly Above.


Progress Settings


These govern how progress is classified as Significantly Below, Below, At, Above and Significantly Above in the School Overview, Year Group Overview and Class Group Overview reports. The controls can be found below the report buttons on the 'Progress' selections screens.

The progress settings allow you to compare attainment at two points 12 months apart. In the progress settings, you will classify which scores you determine to be low, medium, or high for this point in the year. This is used to generate a progress classification as illustrated in the table below.



If a pupil's score was classed as medium 12 months ago, then we would expect them to have a medium score now, so this will be classified as expected progress. If they had fallen from medium to low they would be below expected progress and if they had gone from medium to high they would be above expected progress.

Because we are comparing the same point in the year, only one set of expectations need to be made. For example, if a 1 Dev was 'Medium' in March last year, a 2 Dev will be 'Medium' in March this year.

The Progress Settings are found below the Attainment Ranges. Click 'Show Progress Settings' if you can't see them.

1. Select curriculum: Use the same dropdown as Attainment settings

2. Tick/untick 'Override all Years' box

3. Select progress settings using slider(s): 

  • If the 'override all years box' is ticked, the scores shown will not include the ability level (e.g. Dev not 2 Dev) which is why they can be set for the whole school at once if you choose.
  • There are no rules around how scores should be classified, it is a school-based decision.
  • Which progress category a score appears in is likely to change through the year, so it is important that you check that these settings are appropriate each time you run a report.

Again, the way that the sliders work depends on whether your curriculum uses scores (e.g. 4 Beg) or whether it uses percentages (e.g. 20% of Stage 4).



Scored curriculums: The slider shows the categories that are used in the progress calculations. Each score available in the selected curriculum will appear as a slidable button. Slide each button it higher or lower so that it appears in the correct progress category for the selected date.



Percentage curriculums: The slider shows the percentage range available. There are two slidable buttons. If you click on a button you can see the category that button represents.

Low: 0% - first button
Medium: first button to second button
High: second button - 100%



If a pupil's attainment on either the start or end date falls outside of the ability assigned to their year group, they will not be included in the 'Progress Point to Point' table.



Related Links:
Attainment and Progress Reports
School Overview Report (SLT users)
Year Group Overview Report (SLT users)
Class Group Overview Report (All users)
Class Report (All users)
Attainment and Progress Report Settings (Admin)