Spot students who have stalled
A child who has not passed anything in months is usually a family about to leave. This report finds them first.
The most reliable warning that a family is about to quit is not a complaint. It is a child who has stopped moving up.
1. Open Assessment Progress
Reports → Assessment Progress. Each student shows their Date Joined, their Latest Passed Assessment, and the gap between that and your Reference Date.
2. Sort by the longest gap
Anyone who has not passed an assessment in around five months or more deserves a look. Not all of them are a problem — some levels genuinely take longer, and some children joined recently — but the top of that list is where your churn is coming from.
3. Work out which kind of stall it is
Open the student and check three things:
- Their attendance. Someone attending irregularly is not stalled, they are
drifting away for another reason. Check the register history.
- Their outstanding skills. If two skills have been blocking them for
months, that is a teaching plan, not a mystery.
- Whether they have been assessed at all. Sometimes nobody put them forward.
That is the easiest fix in the building.
4. Do something visible
The intervention that works is the one the parent notices: a progress update that names what is being worked on, an assessment date in the diary, or a conversation at pick-up.
Related: Write a progress update · See who stopped, and why · Read the Overview Dashboard.