At Key Stage 4, the number of pupils achieving five A* to C GCSEs increased by just over five per cent at extended schools between 2005 and 2006. This compares to an average national increase of 2.5 per cent during the same period. Schools in the first wave of full-service extended schools improved their Key Stage 2 average point score by 0.5 per cent, compared to a national increase of 0.2 per cent.
Last week the government announced that 7,000 schools are now offering extended services.
With almost a third of schools now providing these services the next milestones are for half of primary schools and a third of secondary schools to provide the full extended school core offer by 2008 and for all schools to provide it by 2010.
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