The Department for Education (DfE) has released information about the EBacc performance measure and the criteria qualifications must meet to count towards it.

The attainment measure will change to a school's EBacc average point score for the results of exams taken in 2018 onwards.

To calculate a school's EBacc average point score, they will:

• add together the EBacc average point score for all pupils at the end of key stage four
• divide by the number of pupils in the group.

To calculate a pupil's average point score, they will:

• take an average of the points scored in the five EBacc subject areas.

The full guidance document can be found here.

First published 09 February 2018