# The Education (School Performance Information) (England) Regulations 1992, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations, made under section 8 of the Education Act 1980, section 22 of the Education Reform Act 1988 and section 16 of the Education (Schools) Act 1992, apply mainly to secondary schools maintained by local education authorities and to grant-maintained schools in England. They replace the Education (Information on School Examination Results) (England) 1991, which are revoked.
The Regulations impose duties on head teachers to provide specified information to governing bodies and on governing bodies and proprietors of city technology colleges to provide specified information to the Secretary of State, in each case about the examination results of pupils at the school (including, in particular, the results of GCSE and GCE examinations). General information about the school must also be provided (regulations 4 to 6 and Schedules 1 and 3).
The Education (School Information) Regulations 1981 are amended to require the inclusion of much of this information in the school prospectuses. If the information in the prospectus does not include the results of the examinations most recently held, those results must be published as a supplement when they become available and in any event at least two weeks before the time by which parents must apply for admission to or express a preference for a secondary school (regulation 3). The governing body must publish with their annual report to parents corresponding local examination results if these are available at the time of publication (regulation 8).
The governing body of every maintained primary and secondary school is required to make available for reference by parents a document supplied by the Secretary of State showing the examination results of schools in the education authority’s area, with local and national averages figures. The governing body of a primary school (other than an infants' school) and a middle deemed secondary school is also required to distribute the document to parents of pupils in their final year at the school (regulation 7).
Except during the first year in which they are in force the regulations require information about the school year being reported on to be accompanied by the corresponding information about the previous school year.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1385/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-performance-information-england-regulations-1992/note
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