Historically, 95 per
cent of the pupils from my school would go to the local high school.
Nearly 59 per
cent of pupils from the most disadvantaged areas missed their predicted grades, compared to around 48 per cent of students from the most affluent areas.
In fact, the cap was only enforced when schools were oversubscribed: undersubscribed faith schools were allowed to admit 100 per
cent of pupils from the same religious background.
Not exact matches
Bishop Sarah will be introduced to representatives
from across the Diocese
of London at St Paul's Cathedral on Monday morning, before meeting staff and students at the Urswick Secondary School in Hackney, where 70 per
cent of pupils are eligible for
Pupil Premium Funding.
With just seven per
cent of gifted and talent
pupils receiving free school meals, the Liberal Democrats point out children
from low income families are half as likely to be identified as gifted.
The number
of Key Stage 1 classes reported as unlawfully having more than 30
pupils on the census day was 310 (
from a total
of 54,790 classes), 0.6 per
cent of all Key Stage 1 classes, up
from 0.3 per
cent in January 2010.
And as
of the 2014/15 academic year 9,202,894
pupils / students were enrolled in 57,293 educational institutions
from kindergarten to tertiary level indicating 30.74 per
cent over enrolment in the 2008/9 academic year, it said.
In January 2011, 6.6 per
cent of classes in state - funded secondary schools contained more than 30
pupils, down
from 6.5 per
cent in January 2010.
The number
of Key Stage 1 classes reported as having more than 30
pupils, but which met legal requirements (which allow infant classes
of more than 30 in very limited circumstances) on the census day was 1,060 (
from a total
of 54,790 classes), 1.9 per
cent of all Key Stage 1 classes, up
from 1.6 per
cent in January 2010.
In January 2011, 9.4 per
cent of classes in state - funded primary schools contained more than 30
pupils, down
from 9.5 per
cent in January 2010.
The proportion
of Key Stage 2 classes reported as having more than 30
pupils on the census day was 14.5 per
cent, down
from 15.0 per
cent in January 2010.
Despite this, the Selective report shows that the average proportion
of disadvantaged
pupils in the best schools is up to 9.4 per
cent from 7.6 per
cent in 2013.
But, in areas with consistently low densities
of high performing school places, the proportion
of pupils with access to such places fell
from just six per
cent in 2010 to five per
cent in 2015.
Drawing
from a sample
of 1,450 parents, half
of all respondents answered that they'd like to see photographs and videos on their child's school website, and 38 per
cent wanted to see more
pupil content.»
A report
from Scape Group, which advises local authorities on new buildings, reveals that local authorities are expecting an additional 729,000
pupils in education by 2020 — a rise
of 8.6 per
cent in primary school
pupils and 12 per
cent in secondary school
pupils in England.
The number
of top schools with less than six per
cent of disadvantaged
pupils is also down
from 57 per
cent in 2013 to 39 per
cent in 2016.
Only 2.5 per
cent of grammar school
pupils are eligible for FSM, compared to 13.2 per
cent in all schools and the EPI found that grammar schools attract a larger number
of high attaining non-FSM
pupils from other areas, meaning there is a disproportionately large number
of high attaining, non-disadvantaged children.
The statistics
from the Key Stage 2 tests, taken in May by almost 580,000
pupils, showed that 80 per
cent of students achieved the expected Level 4 in reading, writing and maths - up
from just 62 per
cent in 2009.
Additionally, a study
from the National Literacy Trust on the effects
of ebooks on reading progress suggested that boys were keener to read ebooks than their paper counterparts, with ebooks facilitating a 25 per
cent rise in the number
of pupils who read daily and a 22 per
cent increase in those who read for an hour or longer.
7,550 secondary school
pupils were excluded for the same reason, with 290 being permanently excluded for attacking staff, representing an increase
of 11 per
cent from the year before.
A large number
of these
pupils come
from disadvantaged backgrounds; the proportion
of these
pupils leaving school with strong qualifications has risen
from 27.5 per
cent to 32,9 per
cent, equivalent to 7,150
pupils.
The BESA Leadership Briefing report showed that 38 per
cent of primary school
pupils and 20 per
cent of secondary - level students will continue to suffer
from poor internet access in 2016, meaning that a great deal
of superb and helpful resources for computing, such as Espresso Coding, 2Simple's 2Code and J2e's J2Code will remain out
of reach no matter what they cost.
This has been further compounded by the recent proposal that no school will be considered as «Outstanding» by Ofsted
from September 2015 unless 90 per
cent of pupils study EBacc GCSEs — a further disincentive to study D&T.
The Department for Education (DfE) has released GCSE and A level performance tables for 2015, which show that 57.1 per
cent of pupils gained five GCSEs at A * to C, including English and maths, representing a slight increase
from 56.6 per
cent in 2014.
The aim
of 90 per
cent would represent a dramatic increase
from the 39 per
cent of pupils currently studying the Ebacc.
The same analysis also found that
pupils from poorer backgrounds who performed just as well as their more well off peers were still less likely to attend grammars, with 66 per
cent of children who achieve level five in both English and Maths at Key Stage 2 who are not eligible for free school meals going to a grammar school compared with 40 per
cent of similarly high achieving children who are eligible for free school meals.
Applications for secondary school places have risen for the second consecutive year, reaching 521,274, with the proportion
of pupils given their first choice falling
from 85 to 84 per
cent.
Lord Baker, who served as Education Secretary in the Conservative government
from 1986 - 89, has questioned the government's target for 90 per
cent of pupils to study the English Baccalaureate (Ebacc), claiming that it has a «narrow academic focus».
Statistics show that the number
of primary school
pupils suspended or given fixed term exclusions for assaulting an adult increased by 25 per
cent from 9,290 in 2012 - 1013 to 11,660 in 2013 - 14.
According to the 2016 STF ski trip survey, the number
of UK secondary schools choosing to take
pupils on annual ski trips rose to 62.8 per
cent, up
from 43.3 per
cent in 2014.
Since 2010 the proportion
of these
pupils leaving school with this good package
of qualifications has risen
from 27.5 per
cent to 32.9 per
cent.
This program may yet lift the performance
of our
pupils as they go through the school system, although problems remain: out
of Australia's total expenditure on early childhood education in 2010, parents contributed almost half the cost and only 56 per
cent was met
from the public purse — compared with an OECD average
of 82 per
cent public funding — and the rest was
from private sources, probably parental pockets.
Using the Income Deprivation Affecting Children index, the Sutton Trusts» researchers also found that, in selective areas, 34 per
cent of pupils in grammars are
from the richest fifth
of neighbourhoods, compared with four per
cent from the poorest fifth and 11 per
cent from the second poorest fifth
of neighbourhoods.
Pupils from low income families had a 29 per
cent chance
of being rated below average at reading by teachers, compared to 20 per
cent of equally able classmates
from high income backgrounds.
In 2016, the north ‑ east had a sharp drop in entries, with the proportion
of pupils entering at least on arts subject ranging
from 57.3 per
cent in the south ‑ west and 47.8 per
cent in the north east — a gap
of 9.5 percentage points.
The report
from Scape Group, which advises local authorities on new buildings, reveals that local authorities are expecting an additional 729,000
pupils in education by 2020 - a rise
of 8.6 per
cent in primary school
pupils and 12 per
cent in secondary school
pupils in England.
In secondary schools the proportion
of ethnic minority
pupils has risen to 27.9 per
cent,
from 26.6 per
cent last year.
From roughly 1,000 students who moved from schools during the latest monitoring period, Ofsted says that in nearly 40 per cent of cases it is unclear where pupils went n
From roughly 1,000 students who moved
from schools during the latest monitoring period, Ofsted says that in nearly 40 per cent of cases it is unclear where pupils went n
from schools during the latest monitoring period, Ofsted says that in nearly 40 per
cent of cases it is unclear where
pupils went next.
The proportion
of pupils receiving private tuition has risen by over a third in the past decade,
from 18 per
cent in 2005 to 25 per
cent in 2016, with around 280,000 students receiving private tuition in the last year.
According to research carried out by Barracuda, a company which provides security and storage solutions to schools, 43 per
cent of those responsible for technology in schools do not feel equipped to safeguard
pupils from radicalisation.
One comprehensive school in Salford, Harrop Fold, has seen the percentage
of pupils achieving 5 GCSEs at grade A * - C rise
from 18 per
cent to 52 per
cent.
This is despite research
from the Sutton Trust that found that in selective areas on average 18 per
cent of pupils are entitled to free school meals - an important indicator
of social deprivation - but make up only three per
cent of grammar school entrants.
The proportion
of pupils in independent schools has moved
from 4.5 per
cent to 6.3 per
cent over the same period.
Only half
of parents and carers had heard
of the EBacc, compared to 58 per
cent last year, despite a push
from ministers to increase the number
of pupils studying the core academic EBacc subjects.
The research is based on responses
from 1,114 school leaders across England and Wales and shows that 93 per
cent of participants believe that
pupils are bringing more worries into school than they did five years ago.
Of 1,696 secondary school
pupils surveyed, 81 per
cent said that social media sites needed to do more to protect young users
from inappropriate or harmful content.
They found that despite the relaunch
of the government's Prevent duty in 2015, which helped organisations protect
pupils from radicalisation and extremism, many people did not know what it was with 26 per
cent saying they had never heard
of it.
There has been a nine per
cent increase in the number
of pupils removed
from school for being verbally abusive to adults, up
from 550 in 2014 - 15 to 600 last year.
However, almost three - quarters (72 per
cent)
of education staff feel that
pupils are bullied because they are perceived as being different
from the «norm».
Analysis
of Department for Education (DfE) data reveals that in the past four years there has been an increase in the number
of pupils with SEND who attend a specialist school, up
from 5.6 per
cent in 2012 to 8.5 per
cent in 2016.