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The added value of a Jewish education

February 5, 2015 12:02
Pupils at Yavneh College, which ranked 84th in the country for its GCSEs results, celebrating their top marks

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Among the plethora of government data made available last week, impressive scores among Jewish schools were their "value-added" figures.

This mark, given to all state-aided schools, indicates how far above expectations pupils performed at GCSE, considering their ability on entry.

As well as scoring well above average in the majority of cases, the community also saw an overall increase in the value-added to its schools in comparison to last year's results.

Despite coming under criticism in the summer following its no-notice Ofsted inspection and subsequent downgrading, JFS had a value-added score of 1040.6 - higher than the national average of 1000.0. Last year, the school attained 1013.4.