Putney Primaries shine in school league tables

Yesterday the Government published the Primary School league tables, which analyse pupils' key stage 2 (10 and 11 year olds) results in English, Maths and Science. And I'm pleased to say that schools in Putney, Roehampton and Southfields fared particularly well.

The government publishes the results in two forms: the unadjusted data and also an "added value" measurement - which attempts to measure how much schools help pupils achieve beyond what peers from similar social and economic backgrounds would be expected to achieve.

Especially in this value-added group Putney schools did very well, taking five of the top ten places - particular congratulations to St Mary's Primary in Felsham Road; St Michael's Primary in Granville Road, Hotham Primary in Hotham Road and Roehampton Church Primary, Ponsonby Road for their success. St Mary's, St Michael's and Hotham also finished near the top of the unadjusted tables too, while Roehampton Church adds a remarkable amount of value to their pupils' education. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, Our Lady of Victories School in Clarendon Drive tops the unadjusted tables and is one of the Sunday Times' top 20 primary schools in England - it scored a perfect 300.

There are also some real challenges for schools in the constituency. I know both Alton School and Heathmere which are located in Roehampton's Alton Estate are struggling to cope with a growing number of pupils for whom English is not their first language - Roehampton in particular has large and growing Eastern European communities on top of the other challenges of teaching in one of the borough's least affluent areas, so again I'd like to single these schools out for their remarkable efforts.

I've pulled the tables for Wandsworth borough off the BBC News website - for the unadjusted figures click here; and for the value-added table click here. Or click here for the link to the BBC interactive tables, where you can get more information about how the figures are calculated.