This item was published during the term of a previous administration that ended in April 2007
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Scottish schools website a hit
13/12/2004
More than 127,000 users have logged onto Scottish
Schools Online - the website which offers comprehensive
details on every school - in the year since its launch.
The site, which will be updated with the latest exam and
attendance results tomorrow (December 14), ensures that
parents, teachers and pupils have vital information at
their fingertips.
In total, the site has had 127,864 visits, an average of
more than 10,000 a month. The highest number of visits -
16,720 - was recorded in March.
As well as exam results and attendance statistics,
Scottish Schools
Online includes:
- School leaver destinations
- Number of pupils taking free school meals
- Links to school inspection reports and school
websites
- Contact details
Education Minister Peter Peacock said:
"I am delighted this website has been such a success in
its first year, providing continuous access to parents of
information about their local school.
"The details available provide rounded information about
local schools and are far more useful than simplistic
league tables of exam results.
"Any serious observer of education knows a school's
performance cannot be judged on narrow exam results alone.
There are a whole host of factors which contribute to a
school's success and only by looking at them all can anyone
get a true picture of how a school is performing.
"Scottish Schools Online provides parents with a
complete view of the performance of every Scottish school
including progress made on previous years. It is easy to
access and simple to use and I hope it will help to further
strengthen the important links between parents and
schools.
"I encourage parents to access the site and the links it
givs to other information about Scottish education. We have
a strong and successful education system in Scotland, but
it will be even more successful with more parents taking an
increasingly active interest in their school and their
child's learning - this site helps them do just that."
Scottish Schools Online, part of the Parentzone website,
was launched on December 15, 2003 and is run by Learning
Teaching Scotland (LTS) on behalf of the Executive.
The breakdown for visitors to the site is:
Dec 03 - 11,890
Jan 04 - 12,355
Feb - 9,173
March - 16,720
April - 10,192
May - 11,170
June - 10,361
July - 6,306
August - 9,349
Sep - 11,201
Oct - 9,035
Nov - 10,112
Total - 127, 864