Sentences with phrase «grammar pupils eligible for free school meals»

Conservative councillor Jenny Whittle said figures were improving with grammar pupils eligible for free school meals now over 3 %.

Jenny Whittle, Conservative councillor and committee chair, has said that figures are improving with grammar pupils eligible for free school meals now over three per cent, but admitted she would like to see that figure doubled.

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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.

The results found that grammar schools only take in a small number of pupils who are, or have been, eligible for free school meals.

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.

Critics of the expansion plans have focused on the low number of pupils attending grammar schools who are eligible for free school meals - used as a traditional measure of poverty.

[1] 2.5 % of pupils who entered grammars in 2015/16 are eligible for free school meals compared to 14.1 % nationally, whereas 11 % of pupils who entered grammar school are likely to have come from prep schools, compared to around 6.5 % nationally.

This is a slightly tricky comparison to make because the government performance tables exclude categories in which there are fewer than five pupils, so about 50 of the 164 grammar schools in the country that entered fewer than five pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) for GCSEs that year are excluded from the analysis.

The findings suggest England's grammars take only a tiny proportion of pupils who are, or have been, eligible for free school meals.

Figures in October showed 2.8 % of grammar pupils are eligible for free school meals compared with 13.4 % in non-selective schools.

Figures show 2.8 % of grammar pupils are eligible for free school meals compared with 13.4 % in non-selective schools.

Research in 2012 showed that the majority of remaining grammar schools took less than 3 per cent of pupils eligible for free school meals — many took less than 1 per cent.

Nearly all grammar schools have fewer than 10 per cent of pupils eligible for free school meals.

The data also found that among pupils eligible for free school meals, white children had the lowest rate of entry to grammar schools.

To gather the evidence and statistics apparently needed to lift the ban, the government may turn to schemes introduced by grammar schools that favour pupils eligible for free school meals.

Research by Policy Exchange shows that, as of 2012, just three of the 164 remaining grammar schools had 10 per cent or more pupils eligible for free school meals.

Research shows that, on average, the proportion of pupils in grammar schools who are eligible for free school meals is less than 3 per cent, and the Labour MP Lisa Nandy (pictured top) warned today that the government's proposals could see it «inflict an experiment» on millions of children based on «flimsy evidence» in favour of grammars.

And while the few pupils who go to grammar schools and who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) tend to have better results, FSM - eligible pupils in the same areas who do not attend grammar schools — which is the majority — are likely to have lower attainment than those in other parts of England.