The government has published data on schools, which now includes how well disadvantaged children perform in each school; whether previously high-, average- and low-achieving pupils continue to make progress; and how many pupils at each school are entered into the core academic subjects that make up the so-called English Baccalaureate.
But the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) said the revised tables focus on a narrow definition of progress and do not measure how well schools do for pupils with different needs.
Russell Hobby, general secretary of the NAHT, said: "Unlike the world's most successful education systems, England focuses on crude measures of school performance published in a high stakes adversarial climate.
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