Sentences with phrase «between pupils eligible for free school meals»
Ofsted notes the «more demanding key stage 2 SATs and new measures have resulted in a gap of 21 percentage points in the percentage of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics between pupils eligible for free school meals and their peers.
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The attainment gaps between pupils eligible for free school meals and their classmates are not only wider at Key Stages 2 and 4 than those found nationally, but they widen as pupils move through their secondary education.»
Not exact matches
Senior Labour MP Lucy Powell published figures showing the capital had the biggest gap between the number of pupils at grammars eligible for free school meals compared with the figure for the broader school population.
Last year the gap between richer and poorer students reached a record high, with pupils eligible for free school meals — a long term indicator of poverty — said to be less than half as likely to go on to higher education than their most affluent peers.
However the improvement was small for pupils eligible for free school meals between 60 per cent and 90 per cent of the time.
The report also stated a strength in primary schools was the impact of better teaching on the learning of pupils eligible for free school meals, which Ofsted attributed to helping to close the attainment gap between these pupils and their peers.
It gives additional funds of between # 935 and # 1,320 for every pupil eligible for free school meals, with additional grants for care leavers.
«These attainment gaps are significantly larger than the gaps between free school meals - eligible pupils in all schools and their peers who are not eligible for free school meals,» the report said.