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  • About
    • Jobs
  • Sectors
    • Early years
    • School improvement
    • Skills & careers
    • SEND
  • Services
    • Data analysis and insights
    • Visualisations
    • Trackers
    • Systems development
    • Data management and strategy
    • Capacity building
    • Tableau consultancy
  • Products
    • Early years
      • EYFS Tracker
      • Children’s Centre Profile
      • DataPix
    • School improvement
      • Super School Profile – Primary
      • Super School Profile – Secondary
      • Post 16 Profile
      • DataPix
      • SEND analysis
      • SS Tracker
      • Applied Learning Tracker
    • Skills & careers
      • Post 16 Profile
      • Risk of NEET Analysis
      • Skills Route
      • DataPix
      • Applied Learning Tracker
    • SEND
      • SEND Dashboard
      • SS Tracker
      • SEND Analysis
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About Steve Preston

Steve is our founder and Managing Director. He is an expert in all aspects of using and presenting educational data to have maximum impact and is passionate that the work Mime does should make a real differences to the life chances of young people.
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Providing an on-the-day results service for schools

Schools want comparative data as soon as the GCSE and A Level results are available. They want to understand how their results compare to other local schools. But it is... read more →
  • 21st August 2019
  • Steve Preston
  • Data analysis and insights, School improvement, Super School Profile

The Gap Years: Understanding the Median Gender Pay Gap

Of the 50 organisations reporting the largest gender pay gaps in March 2018, almost half were multi-academy trusts. A startling statistic. Since organisations were required to publish information on their... read more →
  • 20th March 2019
  • Steve Preston
  • Mime Think Pieces, Other education, The Long Read

Seven Key Regional SEND Facts (plus, get a free Mini Fact Sheet for your LA)

We have designed a tool to help you quickly understand your SEND data. Reclaim your time today! Why spend weeks and precious internal resource on this in-depth research from over... read more →
  • 15th May 2018
  • Steve Preston
  • Data analysis and insights, School improvement, SEND Analysis

Round up for 2017

This year has been one of change for Mime: we have launched a range of new products, developed our existing products, won some exciting consulting projects, and moved offices! Our... read more →
  • 14th December 2017
  • Steve Preston
  • Company news, DataPix, EYFS Tracker, Post-Primary Tracking Profile, School improvement, SEND Analysis, SS Tracker, Super School Profile

What’s happened to Attainment 8 scores this year?

Are you looking at Attainment 8 scores and wondering why the 2017 results are so much lower than 2016? The new GCSE grading structure means that Attainment 8 scores in... read more →
  • 6th October 2017
  • Steve Preston
  • Data analysis and insights, School improvement, Super School Profile
We've moved!

We have moved!

We have been in our office in Clapham Old Town for nearly 3 years. We love it but are starting to burst at the seams. So we've moved! Our new... read more →
  • 16th May 2017
  • Steve Preston
  • Company news
Primary school cohort at KS2 and KS4

Learning lessons on the performance of primary pupils through secondary education from longitudinal data

Our work tracking a cohort of primary pupils through to A-levels or equivalent found that a primary school’s performance at Key Stage 2 (KS2) often does not equate to success... read more →
  • 2nd May 2017
  • Steve Preston
  • Data analysis and insights, Other education, Post-Primary Tracking Profile, School improvement
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Is your SEND data ready for inspection?

Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will look at the information that you use to monitor the performance of your SEND services. Your data should be timely, comprehensive and... read more →
  • 6th April 2017
  • Steve Preston
  • Data analysis and insights, Other education, School improvement, SEND Analysis, Visualisations

Level 3 transition matrices – 2015/16

We have recently updated our popular Level 3 value-add visualisation, based on the latest DfE published data from 2016 results. The analysis shows pupil progress from average GCSE (and equivalent)... read more →
  • 6th March 2017
  • Steve Preston
  • Data analysis and insights, Tableau, Visualisations
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Welcome to the new Mime website

As you can see our website has had a face-lift! This is part of wider re-branding exercise that allows us to better reflect our values through our work and the... read more →
  • 20th December 2016
  • Steve Preston
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This blog presents company news as well as facts and ideas that we have encountered whilst working with a range of data across education, skills and employment.

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Recent Posts

  • NASUWT Big Question Survey: Data Analysis and Interactive Tool
  • DfE Data Release: Destinations of Disadvantaged Young People
  • 2020 Round-up: Our year at Mime
  • DfE Data Release: 2020 Key Stage 4 Attainment
  • DfE Data Release: SEND Incidence and Primary Needs

ABOUT MIME

Experts in communicating complex information with clarity within the education sector. Passionate about using data to improve the life chances of young people.

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  • Skills & careers
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RECENT POSTS

  • NASUWT Big Question Survey: Data Analysis and Interactive Tool
  • DfE Data Release: Destinations of Disadvantaged Young People
  • 2020 Round-up: Our year at Mime

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