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4 August 2010

Primary school test results for 11 year olds in England have shown an improvement in English and maths. In English, 81% of pupils reached the expected level and in maths 80% reached this level - both one percentage point higher than last year. Girls outperformed boys in English - but achieved the same results in maths. This year's Sats tests were disrupted by a boycott by teachers' unions, with about a quarter of schools not taking the tests. There are usually about 600,000 pupils taking the tests, but this year only 420,000 pupils sat the exams, with their scores appearing in the full national data. In 20 local authorities so many schools took part in the boycott that there are not enough results to produce a reliable figure for attainment in the authority. This will mean that primary school league tables, to be published later this year, will be incomplete in some areas.