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Primary school league tables: Classes prove their worth in any of 28 pupil languages
WITH pupils speaking 28 different languages and around 150 extra children joining in just under two years, one Leeds School faces more challenges than most.
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But this has not prevented St Bartholomew's CE Primary, in Armley, being named among the best in the country at "adding value" to their pupils' performance.
A school's contextual value-added score (CVA) aims to show what impact it has had on a child's education by measuring their latest results against their performance in earlier years, and the results of pupils from a similar background.
St Bartholomew's score was the highest in Yorkshire and the fifth highest in the country overall, in yesterday's primary school league tables.
The school's headteacher Pauline Gavin said: "This is the most important measure as it shows how much of a difference you make.
"Not all pupils are going to be able to get level five marks but if we can deliver a good CVA it shows my staff are doing their jobs and children are achieving their potential.
"We have a high turnover of pupils with 25 per cent changing per term but for those pupils who do stay we can make a difference."
St Bartholomew's CE Primary in Strawberry Lane, Tong Road, has twice been rated as outstanding by Ofsted inspectors in recent years.
Mrs Gavin said: "We have gone from 300 to 450 pupils since January last year. We take on a lot of Eastern European children, travellers and we are very popular now after our Ofsted inspections."
Bacon Garth Primary School, in Cottingham, had the second highest CVA score in Yorkshire and also featured in a table of the top 100 primary schools in the country for adding value to their pupils' performance.
Headteacher Dave Clark said: "We do attach significance to the CVA because the nice thing about it for us is that it shows you where the pupils started from and how much progress has been made. I have been head for five years and the CVA shows us that the changes we have made to the learning environment, to the ethos, the activities and the curriculum have made a difference."
There was also bad news for the region, however, with more than one in 10 primaries among the worst 100 schools for adding value to their pupils' performance were from Yorkshire.
St Joseph Catholic Primary School, in Rotherham, had the lowest CVA score in the region and was ranked 17th worst in the country.
It was one of three schools from the region in England's bottom 20 along with South Parade Primary, in Grimsby and Rosebank Primary School, in Leeds.
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