# The Education (School Performance Targets) (England) Regulations 2004, Regulation 5: Targets for pupils aged 15


(1) This regulation applies to every school where education is provided which is suitable to the requirements of pupils who have attained the age of 15.
(2) The governing body of a school to which this regulation applies shall, by no later than 31st December in every school year, set the targets specified in paragraph (3) in connection with the performance of the relevant group of pupils aged 15 in approved qualifications.
(3) The targets referred to in paragraph (2) are—
(a) the percentage of the relevant group of pupils aged 15 to achieve, by the end of the following school year, the level 2 threshold in approved qualifications;
(b) the average point score per pupil to be achieved by the relevant group of pupils aged 15 by the end of the following school year in approved qualifications.
(4) For the purposes of this regulation and regulation 6, questions as to the points allocated to each approved qualification award for the purposes of calculating the average point score shall be determined in accordance with the database of accredited qualifications as published by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.
(5) In this regulation and regulation 9(5)(a), “the relevant group of pupils aged 15”, in relation to—
(a) a school, and
(b) any school year during which the governing body has a duty to set the targets specified in paragraph (3),
means all persons who, in the following school year, the governing body anticipates—
(i) will be registered pupils at the school on the third Thursday in January, and
(ii) will have attained the age of 15 during the period of twelve months ending on the 31st August immediately preceding that day.
(6) For the purposes of this regulation and regulation 9(7)(c), a pupil achieves an approved qualification in the school year in which he completes the course or takes the examination leading to the award of the qualification irrespective of whether the decision to award the qualification is made in a later school year.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2858/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-performance-targets-england-regulations-2004/regulation-5
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