The number of primary schools in England below the government's target for academic performance has fallen dramatically, data shows.
This year 521 schools are below the government's expectation for maths and English, compared with 1,310 in 2011.
Data published on Thursday by the Department for Education shows how more than 14,000 primaries fared in national curriculum tests, known as Sats.
The performance information is used to compile school league tables.
Last year, the government said schools where fewer than 60% of pupils achieved at least the expected level (Level 4) in both English and maths, and which were down on progress scores in English and in maths, were underperforming.
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In total, 789 fewer schools failed to reach this target in 2012 than last year.
The improvement is more notable given that the average progress scores have risen this year.
Of the 521 schools deemed to be underperforming, 47 have now closed, with 37 becoming academies.
A spokesman for the Department for Education said higher primary school floor targets were brought in to drive up standards and end underperformance.
"Today's figures demonstrate that schools have responded to the challenge. The floor standards we introduced were tougher and have improved performance.
"Heads, teachers and pupils deserve credit for meeting the challenge head on.
"Schools with a long history of underperformance, and who are not stepping up to the mark, face being taken over by an academy sponsor."
National pictureAcross England schools have done better than last year with 79% of pupils attaining Level 4 in English and maths compared with 74% in 2011 and 73.5% in 2010. However, the DfE figures are not directly comparable because there was no writing test - an area which has been the focus much effort in schools in recent years.
Some 27% achieved Level 5 in maths and English, the level expected of a 14-year-old.
WHAT THE LEVELS MEAN
- L4 English: read independently, write extended sentences, choose words for effect, use commas
- L4 maths: add, subtract, multiply, divide in the head comfortably, know times tables up to 10, plot co-ordinates on a graph
- L5 English: well organised writing, use of paragraphs, complex sentences, with use of subordinate clauses
- L5 maths: carry out simple equations and algebra, calculate in fractions and percentages, calculate angles and understand probability
But pupils did not
Pupils with low prior-attainment at the end of infant school have done noticeably better this year.
Last year, only a quarter of those with low attainment at the age of seven reached the expected standard in English and maths at the age of 11. This year a third (34%) did so.
High achievers also did better. Last year, 61% of those who were doing particularly well when they were seven reached Level 5 at age 11 and this year 72% did so.
The tables show the best performing local authority is Richmond upon Thames in south London, where 90% of pupils reached the government's benchmark of Level 4 in maths and English.
It is followed by Kensington and Chelsea where 86% achieved this.
The worst performing local authority this year is Medway in Kent, where 72% of 11-year-olds made this benchmark.
Newton Farm Nursery, Infant and Junior School in Harrow tops the BBC list of best performing schools, with 100% of pupils achieving Level 4 in maths and English and a full average point score (the average number of points per pupil in the tests).
The school with the lowest percentage of pupils reaching the expected level in maths and English was Crays Hill Primary School in Billericay, Essex, where 8% reached the target.
The school serves a large traveller community. The community was evicted last year from the Dale Farm site.
'Excellent news'Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said the results were "excellent news".
"It shows the hard work that's going on in the system and has been going on for some years."
He said the majority of primaries would not become academies and that showed schools could improve "no matter what their status".
One of Education Secretary Michael Gove's flagship new free schools, the Mahirish Free School, in Lancashire failed to administer the Sats tests this year.
It seems that they did not realise their pupils had to sit the test, as they used to be an independent school before attaining the state funding associated with free school status. Independent schools do not have to sit national curriculum tests.
The Department for Education has written to the school reminding its head teachers of its obligations.
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