We have now published the National School Categorisation System outcomes for primary, middle and secondary schools across Wales.

The new National School Categorisation System has been introduced to help identify those schools in Wales that are in need of the most support. Under the new system schools will be assessed on both their performance and their ability to improve, to ensure that, in partnership with local authorities and consortia, we direct our support and resources most effectively to secure the improvements necessary in our school system.

All schools are allocated one of four colour-coded support categories with green representing the highly effective schools, yellow for effective schools, amber for schools in need of improvement and red for schools in need of the greatest improvement. The full detail of the categorisation outcomes, including the standards group and performance data used to calculate the standards groups, as well as the improvement capacity and support category will be available on My Local School tomorrow afternoon