The best and worst performing multi-academy trusts in the country for progress after GCSEs have been revealed by the Department for Education.

Today it published new data on MATs’ “level 3 value-added” performance - the progress that pupils make between key stage 4 and graded level 3 qualifications, excluding tech levels.

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The measure compares pupils’ results to those of other pupils nationally with similar prior attainment.

Academy trust progress scores 

For all pupils nationally, the average progress score is zero, so a positive score means that pupils within the MAT on average do better than those with similar prior attainment nationally, whereas a negative score means that on average they do worse.

The top 10 MATs were:

• Diocese of London (0.13 value added)
• Inspiration Trust (0.12)
• Aldridge Education (0.12)
• Dixons Academy Trust (0.1)
• The Castle School Education Trust (0.08)
• The Thinking Schools Academy Trust (0.06)
• Oasis Community Learning (0.06)
• Ark Schools (0.04)
• East Midlands Education Trust (0.04)
• Invictus Education Trust (0.01)
   

The bottom 10 MATs were:

• Swale Academies Trust (-0.06)
• Rosedale Hewens Academy Trust (-0.53)
• E-ACT (-0.39)
• David Meller (-0.33)
• Aspirations Academies Trust (-0.28)
• City of London Academies Trust (-0.27)
• Creative Education Academies Trust (-0.25)
• Matrix Academy Trust (-0.22)
• Leigh Academy Trust (-0.22)
• Grace Foundation (-0.21)
   

MATs were only included in the analysis if they had more than three schools that had belonged to the trust for at least three years.