Gaining Ground- Improving progress in coasting secondary schools considers what can be done to support secondary schools which have done well to reach good levels of attainment, but have not yet got the best out of a substantial minority of children who did well in primary school, but then lost momentum. These are pupils who make slow progress or have stalled.

The aim of the strategy is to put the spotlight on these schools, so that parents, governors and local authorities challenge and support these schools to help their pupils fulfil their early promise.

The schools to which this strategy is broadly addressed lie above the Key Stage 4 floor (some considerably above it) but are below average in terms of their pupils progression from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 4.

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