The Department for Children, Schools and Families is piloting a possible replacement in the form of "single level tests" that children would take to confirm their teachers' assessment that they had reached a higher national curriculum attainmentlevel.
Also, whilst it may be easy to calculate the direct costs allocated to the education budget, the high attainmentlevel at Dunshalt pays dividends back in areas that will never appear as a gain in Dunshalt's "cost per child" figures.
But there are also serious concerns about a "significant minority" of youngsters in care who were found to have "an unacceptable level of low attainment".
May is Asian-American Heritage Month and, over the course of the month, you might have heard it said that Asian-Americans enjoy the highest income and level of educational attainment of any racial group in this country.
These include the proportion of children under five on free school meals achieving a "good level of development" compared with other children, attainment at age 16 of those eligible for free school meals and higher education enrolment by social background.