What Your School Website Needs – Schools’ Statutory Website Information
It has been a couple of years since the Department of Education in the UK outlined the specific details of information that had to be published on a school website.
It has recently updated these requirements and for convenience, we list them here.
We would strongly recommend that your school website has a specially dedicated webpage entitled Statutory Website Information.
The details on that webpage should follow the order listed below to ensure that all statutory information is provided.
Even if policies, reports and further links are available throughout the website in their relevant places, we would recommend a specific webpage, clearly linked from the front page of the website (whether as a button or a link on the drop down menu)
What You Need to Publish
(as per gov.uk guidelines)
Every maintained school must publish specific information on its website to comply with The School Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012.
If you are an academy or free school, you need to check your funding agreement to find out what you should publish on your website.
School contact details
Your school’s website must include the following contact information:
- your school’s name
- your school’s postal address
- your school’s telephone number
- the name of the member of staff who deals with queries from parents and other members of the public
Admission arrangements
You must do one of the following:
- publish your school’s admission arrangements, explaining how you will consider applications for every age group, including:
- arrangements you have in place for selecting the pupils who apply
- your oversubscription criteria (how you offer places if there are more applicants than places)
- an explanation of the process parents need to follow if they want to apply for their child to attend your school
- publish details of how parents can find out about your school’s admission arrangements through your local authority
Ofsted reports
You must do one of the following:
- publish a copy of your school’s most recent Ofsted report
- publish a link to the webpage where users can find your school’s most recent Ofsted report
Exam and assessment results
Key stage 2 (KS2) results
- You must publish the following details from your school’s most recent KS2 results:
- percentage of pupils who achieved level 4 or above in reading, writing and maths
- percentage of pupils who have improved by 2 or more levels in reading, writing and maths between key stage 1 (KS1) and KS2
- percentage of pupils who achieved level 5 or above in reading and writing
- percentage of pupils who achieved level 5 or above in maths
Key stage 4 (KS4) results
You must publish the following details from your school’s most recent KS4 results:
- percentage of pupils who achieved a C or above in GCSEs (or equivalent) in 5 or more subjects, including English and maths
- percentage of pupils who achieved the English Baccalaureate
- percentage of pupils who have achieved at least the minimum expected levels of progress in English and maths between KS2 and KS4
Performance tables
You must include a link to the DfE school performance tables website.
Curriculum
You must publish the following information about your school’s curriculum:
- the content of the curriculum your school follows in each academic year for every subject
- the names of any phonics or reading schemes you are using in KS1
- a list of the courses available to pupils at KS4, including GCSEs
- how parents or other members of the public can find out more about the curriculum your school is following
Behaviour policy
You should publish details of your school’s behaviour policy.
The policy must comply with section 89 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006.
Advice on developing and publishing your school’s behaviour policy is available.
Pupil premium
You must publish details of how your school spends its pupil premium funding and the effect this has had on the attainment of the pupils who attract the funding.
You must include the following:
- your pupil premium allocation for the current academic year
- details of how you intend to spend your allocation
- details of how you spent your previous academic year’s allocation
- how it made a difference to the attainment of disadvantaged pupils
The funding is allocated for each financial year, but the information you publish online should refer to the academic year, as this is how parents and the general public understand the school year.
As allocations will not be known for the latter part of the academic year (April to July), you should report on the funding up to the end of the financial year and update it when you have all the figures.
Year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium
If your school receives year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium funding, you must publish details of how your school spends this funding and the effect this has had on the attainment of the pupils who attract it.
You must include the following:
- your year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium allocation for the current academic year
- details of how you intend to spend your allocation
- details of how you spent your previous academic year’s allocation
- how it made a difference to the attainment of the pupils who attract the funding
PE and sport premium for primary schools
If your school receives PE and sport premium funding, you must publish details of how your school spends this funding and the effect it has had on pupils’ PE and sport participation and attainment.
You must include the following:
- your PE and sport premium allocation for the current academic year
- details of how you intend to spend your allocation
- details of how you spent your previous academic year’s allocation
- how it made a difference to the PE and sport participation and attainment of the pupils who attract the funding
Special educational needs (SEN) report
If your school is a maintained school, then your governing body must publish a report on the school’s policy for pupils with SEN.
The report must comply with:
- section 69(2) of the Children and Families Act 2014
- regulation 51 and schedule 1 of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014
The report must include details of:
- your school’s admission arrangements for pupils with SEN or disabilities
- the steps you have taken to prevent pupils with SEN from being treated less favourably than other pupils
- access facilities for pupils with SEN
- the accessibility plan your governing body has written in compliance with paragraph 3 of schedule 10 to the Equality Act 2010
Charging and remissions policies
You must publish your school’s charging and remissions policies. The policies must include details of:
- the activities or cases for which your school will charge pupils’ parents
- the circumstances where your school will make an exception on a payment you would normally expect to receive under your charging policy
Values and ethos
Your website should include a statement of your school’s ethos and values.
Requests for copies
If a parent requests a paper copy of the information on your school’s website, you must provide this free of charge.
OTHER HELPFUL INFORMATION
Details from the Legislation:
Specified information to be published on a school’s website
1. The name, postal address and telephone number of the school, and the name of a person to whom enquiries should be addressed.
2. Either—
(a) the determined admission arrangements for the school in relation to each relevant age group at the school, including any arrangements for selection, any oversubscription criteria and an explanation of the process of applying for a school place; or
(b) information as to where and by what means parents may access that information in the local authority’s composite prospectus published on their website.
3. Information as to where and by what means parents may access the most recent report about the school published by her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills.
4. The school’s most recent key stage 2 results as published by the Secretary of State under the following column headings in the School Performance Tables published on the Department for Education’s website:
(a) “% achieving Level 4 or above in English and Maths”;
(b) “% making expected progress”;
(c) in relation to English, “% achieving Level 5 or above”; and
(d) in relation to Maths, “% achieving Level 5 or above”.
5. The school’s most recent key stage 4 results as published by the Secretary of State under the following column headings in the School Performance Tables published on the Department for Education’s website:
(a) “% achieving 5 + A* – C GCSEs (or equivalent) including English and Maths GCSEs”;
(b) “% achieving the English Baccalaureate”; and
(c)“% of pupils making expected progress”.
6. Information as to where and by what means parents may access the School Performance Tables published by the Secretary of State on the Department for Education’s website.
7. The following information about the school curriculum—
(a) in relation to each academic year, the content of the curriculum followed by the school for each subject and details as to how additional information relating to the curriculum may be obtained;
(b) in relation to key stage 1, the names of any phonics or reading schemes in operation; and
(c) in relation to key stage 4—
(i) a list of the courses provided which lead to a GCSE qualification,
(ii) a list of other courses offered at key stage 4 and the qualifications that may be acquired.
8. The measures determined by the head teacher under section 89 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (determination by head teacher of behaviour policy)(2).
9. The amount of the school’s allocation from the Pupil Premium grant(3) in respect of the current academic year; details of how it is intended that the allocation will be spent; details of how the previous academic year’s allocation was spent, and the effect of this expenditure on the educational attainment of those pupils at the school in respect of whom grant funding was allocated.
10. The report prepared by the school under section 317(5)(a) of EA 1996 (duties of governing bodies in relation to special educational needs(4)).
11. The school’s charging and remissions policy determined by them under section 457 of EA 1996(5).
12. A statement of the school’s ethos and values.”
