On average, pupils who participated in the programme made slightly less progress than similar pupils who did not. (educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk)
One of the burning questions that friends and foes of free schools often ask is whether pupils who go to free schools do better than similar pupils who go to other schools? (thenferblog.org)
Interestingly, the analysis also found that high attaining pupils perform just as well in high quality non-selective schools as in selective schools and if you compare high attaining pupils in grammar schools with similar pupils who attend high quality non-selective schools, there are five times as many high quality non selective schools as there are grammar schools. (educationbusinessuk.net)