Performance tables link: what to publish on your school website
For every school except nursery schools, this is a link to your school's own page on the DfE's compare school and college performance service.
Check this on my websiteWho 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 it's due
Keep it up to date
There's no fixed date. Update it whenever something changes.
What's needed
Link to your school's own page on the DfE compare school and college performance service from the statutory information or results page on your website.
What it must contain
1 part- Links to the school's own performance measures page on the DfE performance tables websiteMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.
What the official sources say
Set out in 2 official sources:
What maintained schools must publish online
All schools must publish a link to the compare school and college performance service and their performance measures page on it.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ Test, exam and assessment results > What all schools must or should publish
What academies must publish online
All academies should publish a link to the compare school and college performance service and to their own performance measures page on it.
Should: Recommended in official guidance, such as the DfE's. Not a legal requirement in itself.§ Test, exam and assessment results > What all academies should publish
Questions schools ask
Do schools have to link to the performance tables?
Maintained schools must. For academies, it's recommended in official guidance, but isn't a legal requirement in itself.
Which performance tables page do we need to link to?
Links to the school's own performance measures page on the DfE performance tables website.
When do we need to check the performance tables link?
Keep it up to date. There's no fixed date. Update it whenever something changes.
Where does the requirement for the performance tables link come from?
It is set out in What maintained schools must publish online and What academies must publish online.
Recent changes to the official guidance
None of the published updates to the official sources change this requirement.
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