Early Years Foundation Stage Profile Attainment by School Ward 2013-2019

Early Years Foundation Stage Profile data tracks the percentage of reception-aged pupils meeting the Good Level of Development standard, aggregated by school ward for the years 2013 to 2019. The dataset is organized by school location and sourced from the National Consortium of Examination Results. It provides a longitudinal view of early educational attainment prior to assessment framework changes.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in the Good Level of Development attainment rate across school wards from 2013 to 2019.
• Compare early years educational performance between different school wards based on their location.
• Investigate the impact of assessment framework changes by examining comparable year groupings as noted in the description.

Strengths

• Provides a 7-year time series from 2013 to 2019 for longitudinal analysis of early years attainment.
• Data is aggregated by school ward, enabling geographic analysis of educational outcomes.
• Explicitly documents the reason for data gaps in 2020 and 2021, clarifying data collection integrity.

Limitations

• Data for 2020 and 2021 is unavailable due to government cancellation of the collection, creating a temporal gap.
• Results are not directly comparable across years where statutory assessment frameworks were changed by the DfE and STA.
• The dataset is no longer updated, limiting analysis to historical trends before 2022.

Provenance

Source

National Consortium of Examination Results (NCER), published by Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council.

Collection Method

Aggregated from Early Years Foundation Stage Profile assessments for reception-aged pupils, organized by school location and mapped to school wards.

Time Range

2013 to 2019

Freshness

Last updated metadata indicates 2026-03-20, but the underlying data covers 2013-2019 and is not updated.

Geography

School wards within the Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council area, United Kingdom.