Scaled scores for 2025 key stage 2 SATs announced

The Department for Education has today released the marks pupils needed for the 2025 key stage 2 SATs to achieve the government’s “expected” score.

To meet government expectations, pupils must achieve 100 in their scaled scores. But this equates to different marks for each paper (maths; reading; grammar, punctuation and spelling) and can change each year.

Converting a pupil’s raw score to a scaled score simply requires looking up the raw score on the tables below, and reading across to the appropriate scaled score. The tables are also available on the government’s website here.

The marks required for 2025 on each of the key stage 2 SATs tests are:

– Maths: 58 out of 110 (up from 54 in 2024)

– Reading: 28 out of 50 (up from 27 in 2024)

– Grammar, punctuation and spelling: 35 out of 70 (the same as in 2024)

English grammar, punctuation and spelling

Raw score	Scaled score
0-2	No scaled score
3	80
4	80
5	82
6	83
7	84
8	85
9	86
10	86
11	87
12	88
13	89
14	89
15	90
16	90
17	91
18	92
19	92
20	93
21	93
22	94
23	94
24	95
25	95
26	96
27	96
28	97
29	97
30	98
31	98
32	98
33	99
34	99
35	100
36	100
37	101
38	101
39	102
40	102
41	103
42	103
43	104
44	104
45	105
46	105
47	106
48	106
49	107
50	108
51	108
52	109
53	109
54	110
55	111
56	111
57	112
58	113
59	114
60	115
61	116
62	117
63	118
64	119
65	120
66	120
67	120
68	120
69	120
70	120

English reading

Raw score	Scaled score
0-2	No scaled score
3	80
4	80
5	82
6	83
7	84
8	85
9	86
10	87
11	88
12	89
13	89
14	90
15	91
16	92
17	92
18	93
19	94
20	95
21	95
22	96
23	97
24	97
25	98
26	99
27	99
28	100
29	101
30	101
31	102
32	103
33	104
34	104
35	105
36	106
37	107
38	108
39	109
40	110
41	111
42	112
43	113
44	114
45	116
46	117
47	119
48	120
49	120
50	120

Mathematics

Raw score	Scaled score
0-2	No scaled score
3	80
4	80
5	80
6	81
7	82
8	83
9	84
10	84
11	85
12	85
13	86
14	86
15	87
16	87
17	88
18	88
19	89
20	89
21	89
22	90
23	90
24	91
25	91
26	91
27	92
28	92
29	92
30	92
31	93
32	93
33	93
34	94
35	94
36	94
37	94
38	95
39	95
40	95
41	95
42	96
43	96
44	96
45	96
46	97
47	97
48	97
49	97
50	98
51	98
52	98
53	98
54	99
55	99
56	99
57	99
58	100
59	100
60	100
61	100
62	101
63	101
64	101
65	101
66	102
67	102
68	102
69	102
70	102
71	103
72	103
73	103
74	103
75	104
76	104
77	104
78	105
79	105
80	105
81	105
82	106
83	106
84	106
85	106
86	107
87	107
88	107
89	108
90	108
91	108
92	109
93	109
94	109
95	110
96	110
97	111
98	111
99	112
100	112
101	113
102	113
103	114
104	115
105	116
106	117
107	118
108	119
109	120
110	120