The tables, which rank more than 16,000 schools, are based on the results of Key Stage 2 tests taken by 11-year-olds this May.
They reveal that 150 primary schools have been below the government’s so-called floor target for five consecutive years, while one in 10 boys leaves primary school with the reading age of a seven-year-old.
In Derby, Torbay, Plymouth and Wakefield between 23 and 24 per cent of primary schools fall below the government’s target, but in the London boroughs of Hammersmith & Fulham and Havering no primary school is deemed to be underperforming.
The percentage of children achieving the attainment targets in both English and maths rose by one percentage point to 74 per cent this year. But the proportion of children achieving anything above that level fell by three per cent in English and by eight per cent in reading.
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