Branding & Context

The levels used across the primary trackers, dashboard and reports — when a percentage is entered it is converted to the matching level, and Writing/Phonics are recorded directly as a level. Set your own codes, names, boundaries, colours and how many levels you use (2–8). “At least %” is each level’s lower boundary. Standing decides how a level counts in analytics: At expected or above feeds the on-track rate, Needs support flags a child for intervention (pink row), Approaching is below expected but not flagged.

Levels are ordered automatically by boundary. If you rename a code after data has been entered, any Writing/Phonics results already saved under the old code keep their letter until re-entered — set your scale up before entering data where possible.

The grades Years 7–13 are reported on. Meridian has always offered A*–G and 9–1; neither is what every school uses — an incremental scale, where a B is three distinguishable grades, is common in international schools. Set your own codes, what each is worth in points and which count as on track. Points are what progress is measured in, so these are the numbers the dashboard compares. Leave this untouched and every secondary page behaves exactly as it does today.

What a standardised score suggests a pupil should manage, so a target starts from evidence rather than memory. A CAT4 report offers two readings of the same score — what a pupil is expected to achieve, and what they might reach if challenged — and this chart holds both. These bands are a starting point, not GL’s own table: put your school’s figures in from your CAT4 report, because a projection becomes a target and a target becomes what a child is told they are capable of. A department can still set its own chart in its tracker; this is what applies where it has not.

A boundary is not one answer per school: each department sets its own, for each qualification it enters, and the same pupil can be marked against a different set depending on tier. So boundaries live in named sets here, and a tracker says which set it is marking against. A school with one set of boundaries makes one set and never returns. The last table decides which set applies — a rule naming subject, year and tier beats one naming only the subject.

The national outcomes the dashboard’s Benchmarking and Attainment 8 views compare your results against — KS2 (expected standard), KS4 (Attainment 8 & Basics) and A level (cumulative grades). Meridian ships built-in figures and keeps them current; tick below to enter or upload your own (e.g. the latest DfE / JCQ National row), which then override the built-in ones. Leave unticked and Meridian’s figures are used and refreshed for you.