School Attainment and Performance

To find out about school performance in County Durham, please follow the links below to the website of the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) (formerly Department for Education and Skills). There you will be able to view tables of all our schools' results for all Key Stages. The pages also includes the latest post-16 results for our sixth forms and links to past years' data.

• Key Stage Achievement and Attainment Tables for all Local Authorities
• Durham Key Stage and GCSE Results up to 2005.

For information about school performance from Durham County Council, please see our Performance Review page. The latest information on school rolls is also available from this link.

You can learn more about Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education) inspection reports.

You can find out how to request replacement exam certificates.

School Improvement

The current plan for improving all our services which are used by children and young people, including schools, is published in the Children and Young People’s Services Business Plan 2007/10. This is available to download as a pdf below. If you would like to know more about our Children and Young People's Plan, please visit Children and Young People's Plan.

The CYPP replaced the Education Development Plan (EDP) under the Children's Act 2004. Our last EDP, covering 2003-2006, was published in a document entitled 'Partners in Learning: the Strategic and Operational Plan for Durham County Council's Education Service - including Durham's School Improvement Programme (EDP) - 2003/2006.' This is also available below.

You may need to download the free software Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this information.

CYPS Business plan.pdf (68 pages, 1117kb)

Partners in Learning.pdf (77 pages, 7127kb)

Performance Management

The North East Consortium (NEC - formerly 'RAISE') partnership is an association based at County Hall, Durham, made up of public and private sector bodies. Its main focus is on the implementation of Performance Management into schools and local authorities across the North East of England, but they can also provide a wide range of related services to both education establishments and private enterprises. Please see the NEC website for further information.

You can also find out information about the County Durham 14-19 Partnership.