Student Detail reports

The Student Detail area shows what one data set holds about one pupil. That includes their filters, each grade with its expected grade, their flight paths and their own headline measures. Use it to look at a pupil in depth, such as before a meeting about them. It has two reports, Overview and Headlines.

Where to find it: select Student Detail on the area bar, then Overview or Headlines, then Students. Selecting a pupil’s name in any other report opens their Overview.

Who can see it: authority groups with View Student Report, which Admin and User have by default.

The examples follow one fictional pupil, Barraclough; Abbie, in the demo school. The screenshots show the 25/26 leavers’ Exams, and the flight path comes from the 26/27 cohort’s Y10 Summer predictions. The demo school’s KS2 scores for 25/26 are not official. So for that cohort, the Progress 8, value added and Subject Progress Index (SPI) figures rest on unofficial scores.

Choose a pupil

On the Options tab, choose the pupil in Student. The list gives each pupil’s surname, forename and Student ID, such as “Barraclough; Abbie - 005004”. Until you choose, the report says “Please select a Student”, and Filters, Measures, AtL, On Track and Key Characteristics are greyed out.

Student Detail always shows a pupil’s latest published filters and classes, not those when the grades were collected.

Overview

The Overview has a section for each kind of information:

Section	What it shows
Student Filters	The pupil’s value for each filter, such as Gender, SEN and KS2 Banding
Overall	How many of the pupil’s grades are above, on and below their expected grades
Qualifications	A row for each qualification with a grade in the data set
Flight paths	A chart for each qualification, if your administrator has generated flight paths that include this data set. See Flight paths
Legends	KS3/4 Legend and Data Collaboration Legend, explained in Legends and icons

Overall

Column	What it shows
On Or Above	The grades on or above their expected grade, and their share of the pupil’s grades
Above	The grades above
On Track	The grades equal to the expected grade
Below	The grades below

A bar beside the table shows % Above in green, % On in light green and % Below in pink. Only grades with an expected grade count. Sub and Whole decide whether sub-grades count: see Sub and Whole.

In the 25/26 leavers’ results, Barraclough; Abbie has 11 grades with expected grades. Four are above, 3 on and 4 below, so On Or Above is 7 (64%), because 7 ÷ 11 = 0.636.

A pupil's filters and their track summary.

Qualifications

Column	What it shows
Qualification Name	The qualification
Class (Staff Initials)	The pupil’s class, with the teacher’s initials where your school has set them up
Eligibility	Whether the grade can count in the headline measures, such as a green star, or a red down arrow if it is discounted
Type	The kind of qualification, such as GCSE (9-1), from the Matching page
Results Date	The date of the result, which decides the first entry
Grade, Points	The grade and its points
Residual	The grade’s points minus the pupil’s average points
Subject Progress Index, SPI Chart	The pupil’s SPI in the qualification
Attitude, Behaviour, Organisation	The pupil’s Attitude to Learning (AtL) judgements, under your school’s category names
EAP Grade	The grade expected from the pupil’s Expected Attainment Pathway (EAP)
EAP Diff (whole), EAP Diff (sub)	Whole grades and sub-grades above or below the EAP grade: green and striped above 0, pink below
KS2 Core	The pupil’s KS2 score in English or maths, or the average of the two for other qualifications
EAP Baseline	The pupil’s starting point on the EAP, such as a target grade

Barraclough; Abbie’s art grade is 9 against an EAP grade of 6: 3 whole grades and 9 sub-grades above. Her 11 grades total 72 points, an average of 72 ÷ 11 = 6.55. So her residual is 9 − 6.55 = 2.45 in art, and 6 − 6.55 = −0.55 in physics. Her KS2 reading and maths scores are both 109, so KS2 Core is 109 in every row.

Her art graphics grade, 6, has a red down arrow: it is discounted, so it does not count in her headline measures. It still counts in Overall, which uses every grade, as one of her 4 grades below expected.

Each qualification against the pupil's expected grade.

In the 26/27 cohort’s Y10 Summer predictions, the same pupil has 5 grades (45%) on or above expected and 6 (55%) below. Her art prediction is 5= against an EAP grade of 5+. That is the same whole grade but one sub-grade lower, so with Sub it counts as below.

Flight paths

A flight path charts one pupil’s grades in one qualification across KS3 and KS4, against the expected grades in their EAP. It appears in the Overview, below Qualifications, for data sets that your administrator included when generating flight paths. In the demo school, the 26/27 cohort’s Y10 Summer collection has flight paths, but the 25/26 Exams does not.

If a data set in the flight path is closed to you, such as a Locked report, the chart does not show. Instead, a message starts “You do not have permission to view this Flight Path”.

Options

Option	What it does	Default
The qualification list	Chooses the qualification to chart	The pupil’s first qualification
The chart list: Line Of Best Fit or Plotted Expectation	Chooses how the expected line is drawn. Changing it reloads the page	The chart your administrator chose when generating the flight paths
The menu (three lines)	Saves the chart as an image

Read the chart

Part	What it shows
Across	KS2, then T1, T2 and T3 of Year 7 to Year 11, then KS4
Up	Grades, with the baseline’s grade method on the left, such as Baseline - 9-1 Sub Grades, and the KS4 Ending Point on the right
Actual	Blue squares joined by a solid line: the pupil’s grade in each collection, with the grade written above
Expected	Green dots: the expectations from the EAP
Orange band	The term of the data set you are viewing
Grey lines	The bottom and top of the grade scale for each term

With Line Of Best Fit, the expected line runs straight from the first expectation to the last. With Plotted Expectation, it passes through each term’s expected grade. The chart places grades by their rank in the grade method, not by their points. Two grades worth the same points can sit one above the other. The grade scale between the grey lines climbs from term to term. So a pupil who keeps the same grade still rises towards the KS4 Ending Point. Flight paths explains both charts.

Barraclough; Abbie’s art chart, as a Line Of Best Fit:

• The first point, under KS2, reads 6=. It is her EAP baseline, a target grade, because the demo school chose the EAP’s baseline as the starting point.
• Years 7 and 8 read A and year 9 O. The demo school grades KS3 art above (A), on (O) or below expectations.
• Year 10 reads 6+, 5- and 5=, with the summer term shaded orange.

One pupil's grades in art, term by term, against the expected line.

Points to watch

The left axis has no grade labels, so read the grades written on the points. Pointing to a point shows nothing more.

A flight path shows your school’s expectations, not a forecast. The DfE’s 2018 report ‘Making data work’ said flight paths for pupils with similar starting points “are not valid”. What the evidence says about flight paths sets out the evidence.

Headlines

The Headlines report shows the pupil’s own headline measures. It needs a data set published with Headlines on. Orange banners appear when the estimates are not the ones the DfE will use for the cohort. They say the Progress 8 and value added figures are for internal use only.

Read the report

Section	What it shows
Student Filters	The pupil’s value for each filter, as in the Overview
A8/P8 Summary	Dataset, KS2 A8 Prior, Att 8, Att 8 Estimate, Progress 8, Avg A8 Grade and Slots Filled
A8/P8 Detail	For the English, maths, English Baccalaureate (EBacc) and open slots, and overall: estimated Attainment 8, Attainment 8, Progress 8, slots filled and average points per entry
Attainment 8 Qualifications	Each qualification, with its Basket: Eng/Mat, EBacc, Open, or N/A if it does not count. Also Slots Filled, Att 8 Points and EAP Grade
Basics	The English and maths qualifications that count, their points, and Passed 9-5 and Passed 9-4
EBacc	Entry and the standard and strong passes, for each element and overall, and the average point score
Value Added	For science, humanities and languages: EBacc Points, VA Est and VA Score
Other Measures	Y or N, or a count, for the KS4 results measures, such as Achieving 5 Standard Passes inc EM

In the 25/26 leavers’ results, Barraclough; Abbie’s KS2 A8 Prior is 109.0 and her Att 8 70.00, against an estimate of 60.765. Her Progress 8 is (70.00 − 60.765) ÷ 10 = 0.924, rounded up from 0.9235. Her average points per entry is 70.00 ÷ 10 = 7.00.

In A8/P8 Detail, her English slots hold 14.00 points against an estimate of 12.48. Her English Progress 8 is (14.00 − 12.48) ÷ 2 = 0.76. The report shows 0.763, from the unrounded estimate. In Value Added, her science score is 7.00 − 6.06 = 0.94, shown as 0.944.

A pupil's own Attainment 8 and Progress 8.

Points to watch

Attainment 8 Qualifications lists the qualifications that do not count at the bottom, with N/A in Basket. A qualification can be N/A because it was discounted, or because higher grades filled every slot it could use.

The two reports read the grades differently. Headlines uses first entries after discounting, as the DfE does. The Overview uses every grade, including discounted ones.

The DfE’s secondary accountability guidance (updated October 2025) says schools should not share individual pupils’ progress scores with pupils or parents. See Do not predict or share pupil-level Progress 8.

Related pages

• Report tools and options
• Grades reports
• Attainment 8 and Progress 8 reports
• EAPs, flight paths and on track
• Generate the tracker and flight paths
• Good practice with school data