• Academies: Should
  • Maintained schools: Must
Department for Education (DfE) publishing rules

Performance tables link

A link to the DfE compare school and college performance service and to the school's own performance measures page on it. Maintained schools must publish it and academies should.

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Who it applies to

Published on
The school's own website
School type
Academies and maintained schools
School stage
All stages, from early years to sixth form
Does not apply to
Nursery schools

When is it due?

Renewal
No fixed date

The official sources set no renewal date. Keep it accurate whenever it changes.

What's needed

Publish a working link to your school's page on the DfE compare school and college performance service, on the statutory information or results page.

What it must contain

1 part
  • Links to the school's own performance measures page on the DfE performance tables websiteMust

What the official sources say

Set out in 2 official sources:

What maintained schools must or should publish online

Updated 24 October 2024 · All items from this source

  • All schools must publish a link to the compare school and college performance service and their performance measures page on it.

    Must§ Test, exam and assessment results > What all schools must or should publish

What academies, free schools and colleges must or should publish online

Updated 24 October 2024 · All items from this source

  • All academies should publish a link to the compare school and college performance service and to their own performance measures page on it.

    Should§ Test, exam and assessment results > What all academies should publish

Questions schools ask

Does every school have to publish the performance tables link?

Maintained schools must publish it. Academies should publish it.

When does the performance tables link need to be published?

Renewal: No fixed date. The official sources set no renewal date. Keep it accurate whenever it changes.

What must the performance tables link include?

Links to the school's own performance measures page on the DfE performance tables website.

Where does the requirement for the performance tables link come from?

It is set out in What maintained schools must or should publish online and What academies, free schools and colleges must or should publish online.

Changes to the official sources

Dated change notes published by the Department for Education on the sources above.

  1. 15 December 2022 · What academies, free schools and colleges must or should publish online

    We have updated example wording which schools can use to show that the most recent key stage 2 performance measures are for the 2018 to 2019 academic year.

  2. 15 December 2022 · What maintained schools must or should publish online

    We have updated example wording which schools can use to show that the most recent key stage 2 performance measures are for the 2018 to 2019 academic year.

We last checked these sources on 21 September 2026.

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Official sources last checked 21 September 2026 · register version 1.0.4