Sentence examples for floor standard from inspiring English sources

Instead, schools will fall below the floor standard if pupils make an average of half a grade less progress than expected across their eight subjects.

The tables show that 1,310 schools are failing on English and maths, while about 150 schools have been below the "floor standard" for five years.

"The government should suspend the floor standard for 2016, halt interventions based on the misleading results and place a strong health warning on the national statistics".

We will refocus the Department's floor standard measures which identify underperforming schools to take account of performance in our new English, mathematics and sciences qualifications from 2017.

Despite the tougher tests many headteachers will be relieved that fewer schools than feared have fallen below the government's new two-pronged floor standard.

Gove is also consulting on replacing the "floor standard" system, in which schools that fall below a particular level are deemed to have failed.

Just as standardization is the key to continuous improvement on the factory floor, standards are the basis for continuous improvement in engineering design.

The floor standards we introduced were tougher and performance is improving.

The DfE said that its floor standards and number of schools affected will be published in December.

Pressure to keep a school's results above the English government's floor standards encouraged many into entering pupils for vocational GCSE-equivalents.

The DfE's analysis showed 346 schools were below the government's floor standards in terms of results, compared with 309 last year.