SATs Results 2025: What You Need To Know

SATs results 2025 will soon be the topic of primary school conversation again. At Third Space Learning, we aim to provide you with as much information and insight as possible about these results in a timely fashion.

For now, all we know is that the SATs results in 2025 will be released in July as usual. Last year’s SATs results came out on 9th July 2024. Therefore, we can assume, as the expected standard, similar timings for this year. There are also provisional test dates for SATs 2025. These are over a week period for KS2, details will follow in this article.

Over the SATs 2025 season, we will follow all the developments. This blog will act as a live tracker of all things related to the KS2 SATs results 2025. As the KS1 SATs are optional, we’ll focus predominantly on KS2 tests from the Standards and Testing Agency and regularly update this blog with the results, SATs data, question types, and analysis throughout this academic year.

KS2 SATs results 2025 

The Key Stage 2 SATs results 2025 are expected to be released towards the end of the summer term, in July, but the exact date isn’t yet confirmed. 

Typically, headteachers receive pupils’ total number of marks, or raw scores, for each of the test papers, and scaled scores in early July. Schools usually release test results to parents/carers in the end-of-year school reports. This will inform them whether their child is working towards the expected standard, at the expected standard or greater depth.  

Here’s what we will cover on this page the day the results come out:

• KS2 SATs results 2025: the headlines
• English SATs results 2025
• Spelling, punctuation and grammar SATs results 2025
• Maths SATs results 2025
• Scaled score conversion tables for the KS2 SATs results
• How the 2025 SATs results compare to 2024 and pre-Covid?
• Is there still any impact from Covid-19 pandemic and school closures?
• What trends can we see from the 2025 SATs results?
• What have we learnt from the results of the SATs Arithmetic Test
• What have we learnt from the results of the SATs Reasoning Test
• What the results mean and what to do next

While this blog will touch on the English papers, as maths tutoring specialists, the main focus will be on the maths SATs scores, difficulty and nuance of the maths tests. 

KS2 SATs 2025 key dates

For KS2, SATs 2025 will take place in the second week of May, beginning Monday 12th May 2025 and finishing on Thursday 15th May 2025. 

Here’s a breakdown of when Year 6 pupils will sit each paper: 

• Monday 12th May 2025: Spelling, punctuation, and grammar (Grammar/Punctuation Test) – 45 minutes
• Monday 12th May 2025: Spelling, punctuation, and grammar (Spelling Test) – 20 minutes
• Tuesday 13th May 2025: Reading Paper (English) – 60 minutes
• Wednesday 14th May 2025: Maths Paper 1 (Arithmetic) – 30 minutes
• Wednesday 14th May 2025: Maths Paper 2 (Reasoning) – 40 minutes
• Thursday 15th May 2025: Maths Paper 3 (Reasoning) – 40 minutes

There are no papers for English writing, pupils are assessed using teacher assessment. Every year, a selection of schools are moderated on their English writing judgements. This ensures fairness in writing assessments across England from the Department for Education. 

The optional Key Stage 1 SATs are available to sit across May. Schools can choose when pupils sit the Maths and English papers within this month-long period. 

Need support preparing for SATs 2025?

Since 2013, Third Space Learning has helped primary schools across England with SATs practice through one to one online maths tuition. Whether it’s to close learning gaps in the maths national curriculum or prepare pupils for the SATs test format, tutors personalise lessons to suit each pupil. 

While not all pupils can access one to one math tutoring, schools and teachers can use the newly updated Maths Hub to support Year 6 pupils on their SATs journey. 

Schools and teachers can access hundreds of free resources, including SATs practice papers and SATs worked examples, Year 6 maths SATS papers and a KS2 SATs revision page with links to all the resources you’ll need. 

To really hone in revision on the most frequently occurring topics, you’ll want to use this carefully curated maths revision programme of the top 20 maths topics. It aims to help all students achieve a standardised score of at least 100 and improve school performance in maths. 

KS2 SATs papers release from embargo

All SATs test materials and mark schemes for KS2 maths and English are expected to be released online for download in May 2025 but the exact dates aren’t yet available. 

These will comprise the English reading paper, the English grammar and punctuation paper, the English spelling paper, and the mathematics papers, including arithmetic and reasoning. 

Previous SATs results and analysis

GET THE ANALYSIS ON PREVIOUS SATS

SATs have been running in their current incarnation for 7 years; there were no government standardised assessments in 2020 and 2021 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Get all the analysis and results from previous national assessments below.
And find out which are the top 20 year 6 maths revision topics to focus on this year.

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