The number of children who achieved a good level of development has increased by 5.9 percentage points over the last year.
A DfE report on early years foundation stage profile results shows that this year 66.3 per cent of children achieved a good level of development by the end of reception compared with 60.4 per cent in 2014.
The early years foundation stage profile was introduced in September 2012, and is based on teacher observations throughout the year.
Children are judged to have reached a "good" level if they hit expectations in terms of communication and language, personal, social and emotional development, literacy, and mathematics.
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