This article explains how to complete Key Filter Mapping for KS5 cohorts.

What is Key Filter Mapping?

Key Filter Mapping involves mapping your school's student data filters to Sisra-defined key filters. This allows schools to be able to filter KS5 Headline Trends by key filter groups.

Additionally, if your school is part of a Multi Academy Trust which uses our Sisra MAT Dashboard, this will also allow users in your Trust to view your school’s figures compared with other schools within your MAT, broken down by either of these key filters, as well as provide the ability to filter the reports by them.

The Sisra key filters available to map are Disadvantaged, Gender, and SEN. In order for your own school's figures in either of these filters to be included in the MAT reports, is it essential that they mapped on this page. 

Setting Up Key Filter Mapping

To complete the Key Filter Mapping page, navigate to DATA > select KS5 & cohort > Students > Key Filter Mapping.

This will display the three Sisra key filters available to map; Disadvantaged, Gender, and SEN. To map these to your school filters, click into the filter name.

This will then display two drop downs which can be used to map your key filters, each of which are explained in more detail for specific scenarios below:

1 / If you have a student data filter available for the selected Sisra key filter

If you have a filter available for the selected key filter, select this in the ‘Use the values from the Student Data Filter’ dropdown on the left. Once selected, you will be presented with a list of your school filter values underneath. This will then allow you to map each value to the associated SISRA filter value in the dropdowns below.

For example, the screenshot below shows our school filter values “N” for Non-Disadvantaged students and “Y” for Disadvantaged students. This allows us to map “N” to ‘Other – Not Disadvantaged’ and “Y” to ‘Disadvantaged.

2 / If all or no students are classed as a specific filter value

If all of your students, or none of your students, fall under a specific filter value, select the appropriate option in the ‘All of the students in this cohort are’ dropdown on the right.

For example, the screenshot below shows all students linked to “Male” Gender, which could be used for an all-boys institution.