In Key Stage One pupils undertake a Phonics Screening Test. In Key Stage Two children’s progress will be assessed through SATS (Standard Assessment Tests) They are used to show your child’s progress compared with other children across the country. The expected scaled score for children is 100. Any child that has a scaled score of 110 or greater is judged to have greater depth in that subject.
Statutory Testing And School Performance Results at Denbigh

Key Stage 1 Phonics Screening
Children in Year 1 will complete a National Phonics Test. Any children who does not pass this test in Year 1 are required to be re-tested in the Summer Term of Year 2.
Key Stage 1 Analysis
Denbigh were broadly in-line with Local Authority and National for the percentage of children attaining the expected standard in Phonics.
Key Stage 2 SATs
Pupils are assessed through externally marked tests in: Reading, Grammar Punctuation and Spelling (GPS) and Maths. They are assessed by Teacher Assessment in Writing and Science.
Key Stage 2 Analysis
- Denbigh are above the Local Authority and National figures for the percentage of children attaining the expected standard in Reading, Writing, Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling and Maths.
- Denbigh are above the National figures for the Average Scaled Score in Reading and Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling.
- Denbigh are above the National figures for the percentage of children attaining the greater depth standard in Reading, Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling, Writing, and Maths.
- Denbigh are broadly inline with Local Authority and National figures for Writing and Science.
- Denbigh are above the Local Authority and National figures for the percentage of disadvantaged children attaining the expected standard in Reading, Writing, Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling and Maths.
- Denbigh are above the Local Authority and National figures for the percentage of SEND children attaining the expected standard in Reading, Writing, and Maths.