Do school league tables matter?

How much attention do you pay to school league tables and do you think they reflect the quality of education?

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00:00For the school I went to, Concert Academy, I think it's rated quite low and I would say so, yeah,

00:07I don't really pay much attention to them but obviously word of mouth goes around, I hear a few

00:12on where the leaderboards are but it doesn't matter, I would say. I think now that we've

00:18added Progress 8 it does more but I think not necessarily because schools like Wellfield,

00:22which my sister goes to, are like top of the Attainment 8 league tables but I think it doesn't

00:28account into, yes these students might have performed better but I think obviously being

00:32a teenager and being in that set area you're going to improve and I think it relies a lot

00:36more on just set teachers than the school itself really because especially Wellfield,

00:42they've changed head teachers at least six times over the past few years so there's like

00:47no way that you can market that just based off a league table, I think you need to include more

00:52things. An A level is an A level right, depending where you go so I do think

00:57once you come to university it doesn't actually matter too much.