Hull and East Riding pupils have improved their performance in primary school tests for 11-year-olds. It comes as the Government has raised the bar in terms of what children must achieve for the new gold standard.
Hull is ranked 137th out 152 authorities in the new national league table and the East Riding is joint 55th with a group of authorities on the same percentage. In the city, 71 per cent of pupils achieved level four in reading, writing and maths, a rise of four percentage points from last year. Nationally, the rise was just one per cent, up to 75 per cent.
Ken Sainty, Hull City Council's head of standards, said: "We are striving for year on year improvement and that is what we have achieved."
Despite the improvement, the authority still found itself on a list of authorities who had the highest percentage of schools not reaching the floor target of 60 per cent. Seven city schools fell short.
Mr Sainty said: "We are still not where we want to be but the encouraging thing is seeing the year on year improvement and also eating away at the gap between ourselves and national figures."
East Riding primary schools achieved above-average results and also improved on last year's performance. Seventy seven per cent of pupils achieved the required level in reading, writing and maths. This is up from 76 per cent last year and is above the national average of 75 per cent.
Mike Furbank, East Riding Council's head of children and young people, education and schools, said: "We have done better this year than we did last year, it's a rising trend, our schools are doing very well. But we are not satisfied, we are not complacent, we want to be even better."
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