Sentences with phrase «grammar schools only»

However, in grammar schools only 2 % of the top achievers were on free school meals, compared with 5.5 % for non-grammar schools.

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

Not exact matches

No one is trying to teach the new grammar to the old folks of the general public but only the new grammar is being taught in the schools.

They naturally wanted their children to have as good an education as they had had themselves, but the only schools available were the grammar and rhetoric schools which offered an education based on Greco - Roman non-Christian culture.

The only problems were those of growth: new schools were needed, not just the new secondary modern schools, but more grammar schools.

The current arrangements, brought in by Labour in 1999, enable affected parents to scrap selection in local grammar schools but only after a complex ballot process.

Only one such ballot has taken place and parents in Ripton, North Yorkshire eventually voted to keep the local selective grammar school.

Although many people in Southern Rhodesia went only as far as a grammar school, Mugabe was fortunate enough to receive a good education.

Selective «grammar» schools will be resurrected — but only on a small scale, and perhaps not at all, given how many Tory MPs oppose the idea.

In areas where grammar schools were the norm, the 1998 regulations made under the Act provided for ballots to be triggered by 20 per cent of parents at all schools signing a petition, while in areas where grammar schools were less common, only parents of children at «feeder schools» would be allowed to vote.

That being the case, isn't it only right and proper that the national audience know where smaller parties like my party stand on the issues of national defence, on the issue of the union, on the issue of grammar school education, on issues of healthcare, taxation, the cost of living and defence spending?

Asked if the abolition of Grammar schools and secondary moderns and their replacement with comprehensive schools was in hindsight a good or bad idea, 48 % of people think it was a bad idea, with only 31 % thinking it was a good idea.

On Mrs May's policy platform, some 51 % of respondents said grammar schools are «good for social mobility,» although only 47 % backed grammar selection through the 11 - plus exam.

As my daughter is finishing up 9th grade and her first year of Home Schooling with Easy Peasy she had to write a report and to my great pleasure she had one, only one obvious grammar mistake, she stayed on topic and it makes sense!

«In grammar school, we would have a computer class once a week, and that'd be for only 40 minutes,» says student Tisha Phillips.

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.

Only six out of 152 local authority areas in England would benefit from expanded selection and opening new grammar schools, according to new research from the Education Policy Institute (EPI).

Only 38 per cent of people believe that the government should build more grammar schools and encourage more schools to select on academic ability, according to a YouGov poll.

Public Opinion A YouGov poll found that only 38 per cent of people believe the government should build more grammar schools and encourage more schools to select on academic ability, which suggests there isn't a huge amount of public support for the idea.

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.

While 23 per cent of people polled believed that grammar schools should be forced to accept children of all abilities, 35 per cent said they believed that grammars improve social mobility, with only 19 per cent thinking they damage social mobility and a further 27 per cent saying they make no difference at all.

Steyning Grammar School is one of only three successful schools in West Sussex to receive funding from the building programme.

Instead, he repeated the government line that new grammar schools would only open where their was demand from the local community.

At present, 80 per cent of high - achieving children from more affluent backgrounds in Kent attend grammar schools whereas in poorer families, it is only only 57 per cent.

Social mobility was a key theme of Education Select Committee's evidence check on grammar schools held on 8 November and statistics quoted suggested that only 2.5 per cent of pupils in grammar schools are on free school meals, compared to an average of nine per cent of the school population in the same areas.

Or, if we look at grammar schools or independent schools, many of which are not only selective but also more academic and less vocational which in itself can close off certain avenues for students.

She added: «What a damning verdict of our country if we went back to an era where we told four in every five children at the age of 11 that there was a cap on their potential and it was only the grammar school kids who could get far.»

However, Melissa Benn, chair of Comprehensive Future, told Tes that grammar schools that have already changed their admissions policies to prioritise children entitled to the pupil premium have only ended up admitting «two or three» additional disadvantaged children.

With Sevenoaks the only major Kent town previously without a grammar school, chairman of governors David Bower said: «It's an important day for west Kent rather than grammar schools.

Ellie Mulcahy, senior research associate at education and youth think and action tank LKMco, said: «Even if these grammar schools open up their entry to allow a proportion of disadvantaged pupils to come in, that will be only for those who do well in the test, whether they've been coached or not.

But later, this conversation led me to think more purposefully about grammar instruction, and I asked myself, to what extent does grammar instruction matter not only to English Language Arts teachers but also to any high school teacher?

Only state - funded schools that are grammar schools can select by ability at age 11, but this rule does not apply at 16.

There are only about 163 grammar schools in England, out of some 3,000 state secondaries, and a further 69 grammar schools in Northern Ireland.

«Opening new grammar schools would not only be a backward step but is also a complete distraction from the real problems facing schools and education.

The Inspiration Trust has been placed top for non-selective schools, with only the Thinking Schools Trust - which includes two grammar schools - ranked schools, with only the Thinking Schools Trust - which includes two grammar schools - ranked Schools Trust - which includes two grammar schools - ranked schools - ranked higher.

There are about 24,000 state schools in England and only 164 of these are grammar schools.

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

Similar quota systems were widely expected to be part of any plans for new grammar schools, which overall have only 3 % of pupils on free school meals.

Sevenoaks is the only part of Kent without a grammar school, resulting in more than 1,100 pupils travelling 15 miles to Tunbridge Wells.

England's first «new» grammar for 50 years in Sevenoaks, Kent, was only approved last year as an «annexe» to an existing school using a loophole in the law.

The only saving grace is there's no target on grammar schools.

These included that new grammars should not be to the detriment of pupils who do not pass entrance tests, should not undermine existing high - performing schools and should be allowed only in areas where parents want them.

This is largely because those attending grammar schools have to pass an academic test and only one in 20 pupils among the top performing pupils are on free school meals, they said.

Gibb first revealed plans for the agreement in his response to a recommendation from the parliamentary education committee that the 11 - plus test should not be the only basis for admissions to grammar schools.

A Department for Education spokeswoman said: «The government consultation puts forward proposals to allow more grammar school places to be created, making them a realistic choice for more parents, but only on the basis that strict conditions are met to ensure this also contributes to the improvement of other parts of the school system.»

She said not only was selection at 11 «wrong in principle», but that those areas which still had grammar schools were now «dominated by private tuition», and had become a «bastion for those who have the financial and social ability to get that tuition».

The government is at pains to say that the grammar proposal will be part of a wider reform, only one of many measures to maximise the number of good school places.

Similarly only 61 per cent of respondents thought that grammar schools achieved the aim of producing children who are «confident and self - assured adults», only slightly more than the 58 per cent who said this about the secondary moderns.

It found only 2.7 % of grammar school entrants were from families who qualified for free school meals, while 12.7 % came from outside England's state sector - mainly independent schools.

According to the Sutton Trust, only 3 % of entrants to grammar schools are entitled to free school meals, when in selective areas the average proportion of free school meal pupils is 18 %.