Regulation 3A “Targets for pupils in the third key stage

(1)

This regulation applies to every school where education is provided which is suitable to the requirements of pupils in the final year of the third key stage.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (5), the governing body of a school to which this regulation applies shall, by no later than 30th June in the 2000–01 school year and no later than 31st December in every subsequent school year, set the targets specified in paragraph (3) in connection with the performance of the relevant group of third key stage pupils in NC tests to be administered at or near the end of the following school year.

(3)

The targets referred to in paragraph (2) are—

(a)

the percentage of the relevant group of third key stage pupils to achieve level 5 or above in such tests in English;

(b)

the percentage of the relevant group of third key stage pupils to achieve level 5 or above in such tests in mathematics; and

(c)

the percentage of the relevant group of third key stage pupils to achieve level 5 or above in such tests in science.

(4)

In this regulation “the relevant group of third key stage pupils”, in relation to—

(a)

a school, and

(b)

any school year during which the governing body have a duty to set the targets specified in paragraph (3),

means all persons who, in the following school year, the governing body anticipate will be—

(i)

registered pupils, and

(ii)

in the final year of the third key stage.

(5)

In relation to a designated school, paragraphs (2) and (4) shall have effect with the following modifications—

(a)

paragraph (2) shall have effect as if—

(i)

for “by no later than 30th June in the 2000–01 school year and no later than 31st December in every subsequent school year” there were substituted “as soon after the beginning of every school year, commencing with the 2001–02 school year, as is reasonably practicable”, and

(ii)

for “the following school year” there were substituted “that school year”; and

(b)

paragraph (4) shall have effect as if for “, in the following school year, the governing body anticipate will be”, there were substituted “are”.