A significant factor Rastrick High School in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, has approximately 1400 students on its books with 40 per cent of those black or ethnic minority and 12 per cent
currently on the Free School Meals programme.
Not exact matches
Currently only around 1,200 pupils
on Free School Meals go
on to Russell Group universities each year, just 1.5 % of the 80,000 pupils eligible each year for
Free School Meals in secondary
schools.
Based
on the number of pupils in year 3 to 6 not
currently eligible for
free school meals, and a take - up of 90 per cent in the pilot, the IFS estimates the extension of
free meals to all primary pupils would cost around # 800 million a year.
In England, the Department for Education gathers data not only
on whether pupils are
currently taking
free school meals but
on whether they have been eligible at any point in the past six years - a so - called «Ever 6» measure.
The programme, which is
currently overseen by the NCS Trust, has a stated mission of «social mixing» between pupils of different backgrounds, meaning that participants are often
on free school meals or have special educational
meals, as well as including those from pupil referral units or not in any education or training at all.
Given the excellent case the Secretary of State is laying out, how can those statistics be changed by grammar
schools when
currently only 3 % of kids
on free school meals go to grammar
schools?