Sentences with phrase «grammar school pupils»

High proportions of grammar school pupils come from the independent primary school sector, roughly double the rate you would expect.

For example, grammar school pupils tend to outperform pupils of similar ability at other types of schools where the ability range is more mixed.

Mr Brady is far from alone in his party in questioning the move away from academic selection, with the former grammar school pupil calling for an increase in grammar schools in inner cities.

Additionally, the report advises that while grammar school pupils do score slightly higher at GCSE, much of this is explained by prior levels of attainment, meaning that bright pupils do just as well in the best comprehensives as they do in grammars.

It confirms that while grammar school pupils do score slightly higher at GCSE, it concludes that much of this can be explained by prior levels of attainment.

These grammar schools have faced criticism for their intake of poorer pupils, with just three per cent of grammar school pupils receiving free school meals, compared to 15 per cent in comprehensives.

Nor have grammar schools ever been a vehicle for social mobility even in their heyday in the 1950s and 60s a pitiful 0.3 per cent of grammar school pupils with two «A» levels were from the skilled working class.

Although 96.7 per cent of grammar school pupils achieve five A * to C GCSEs against a national average of 57 per cent, the EPI says this is not evidence of better grammar school performance, but is in fact likely to be driven by the high prior attainment and demographic of pupils at selective schools.

(1) Furthermore, the attainment of grammar school pupils comes at the expense of those who don't pass their 11 - plus, with pupil attainment at secondary moderns in areas with a selective education system lower than that of their counterparts in comprehensive schools.

As an ex Grammar school pupil I played both football and rugby at school.

The Trust is the home of a former Manchester Grammar School pupil, Alan Garner.

Recent research from the Education Policy Institute showed grammar school pupils travelled, on average, twice as far to get to school as those attending non-selective schools.

Headmaster Simon Hinchliffe said: «Words can not express how thrilled and proud we are that two former Bradford Grammar School pupils have won a brilliant Olympic triathlon gold and silver in Rio.

The grammar schools in the area have faced criticism for their intake of poorer pupils, with just 2.8 per cent of grammar school pupils receiving free school meals, compared to 13.4 per cent in comprehensives.

Nor have grammar schools ever been a vehicle for social mobility — even in their heyday in the 1950s and 1960s a pitiful 0.3 % of grammar school pupils with two A-levels were from the skilled working class.

Of those entered for the EBacc, 69.7 per cent of grammar school pupils achieved the measure, compared to just 23.1 per cent of those at comprehensives.

The research, which also looks at GCSE attainment for pupils at grammar schools, confirms that while grammar school pupils do score slightly higher at GCSE, it concludes that much of this can be explained by prior levels of attainment.

Nationally, some 20 % of grammar school pupils come from outside the local authority of the school.

A former grammar school pupil, he spent 18 years working in the pubs, brewing and hotel industries, in Britain and abroad, before entering politics.

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.

Grammar school pupils are not making as much progress as official figures suggest, according to new research into the government's Progress 8 measure.

Shocking that grammar school pupils are benefiting while councils all over the country are withdrawing free school transport to catchment schools.

They found that about 2 % of grammar school pupils were from low income families - on free school meals - compared with 12 % of pupils at non-grammar schools.

In the same period, 77.3 per cent of grammar school pupils were entered for all components in the English baccalaureate, compared to 38.2 per cent of comprehensive pupils.