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　　Sub-standard schools will be closed and reopened as academies or merged with successful primaries.

　　Those that do not meet the 60 per cent target will get a reprieve only if they can satisfy pupil progression measures charting improvement between the ages of seven and 11.

　　Although the rules will not be effective until next year, the Government is already in discussion with the worst offenders.

　　The 2010 tables show that at almost 350 schools, more than half of pupils fell short of the expected standards. And just 280 schools ensured that all their pupils finished primary education with a decent grasp of English and maths.

　　The best-performing primary is Manuden, in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire.

　　The most improved was the Pilgrim School, in Rochester, Kent, which has produced the fastest improvement in results in the past three years.

　　At the bottom of the table is Starks Field Primary in Enfield, North London, where no pupils received an acceptable standard of English or maths.

　　The tables also showed that half of all children who qualify for free school meals do not leave primary with a grasp of the 3Rs.

　　Schools Minister Nick Gibb said the poorly performing schools had been failed.

　　He said: It is unacceptable that after seven years of primary school these children are not at the standard in English and maths that they need to flourish at secondary school.