I'd assumed I'd get a choice of five local schools, including three
grammar schools rated as outstanding.
Not exact matches
The Prime Minister is pleased to have political cover for keeping the 50p top
rate of tax, abandoning the «prison works» approach to crime, avoiding a return to
grammar schools and retaining the ring - fence on aid — all policies that infuriate the rightwingers.
The Ofsted official has argued
grammars» higher
rating may be due to «more effective teaching», while Mr Widdows, deputy head teacher at Giles Acadamy in Lincolnshire, said the claim was an «insult» to teachers in other
schools.
Half of academies sponsored by
grammar schools are
rated as requiring improvement or inadequate, casting doubt on the effectiveness of government plans to get more selective
schools running other nearby
schools.
Data released by the government on the day it called the general election shows that eight of the 18
schools sponsored by
grammar schools that have been inspected by Ofsted are
rated as requires improvement, while two are inadequate.
Bexley said it had the second - highest
rate in the city of children at
grammar schools eligible for free
school meals — three per cent — behind Redbridge.
High proportions of
grammar school pupils come from the independent primary
school sector, roughly double the
rate you would expect.
Ethnic background also affects
rates of
grammar school entry.
Disadvantaged white British children enter
grammar school at the lowest
rate of any major ethnic group.
Ethnic background plays a significant role in
grammar school entry, with disadvantaged white British pupils having the lowest
rate of entry to
grammars among a range of ethnic groups, according to new analysis published by the Sutton Trust today.
Institution Name Total Students Adjusted
Rate per learner Perry Beeches II 90 # 3,136 Holy Trinity 39 # 3,200 Chetwynde
School 42 # 3,216 The Rural Enterprise Academy 25 # 3,296 Jane Austen College 80 # 3,350 Bolton Wanderers Free
School 135 # 3,494 Atherton Community
School 37 # 3,564 Connell Sixth Form College 336 # 3,608 Nishkam High
School 33 # 3,707 The Maltings College 144 # 3,736 Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form Free
School 201 # 3,755 Bradford Girls»
Grammar School 121 # 3,766
Last year, the
schools minister Nick Gibb said the
Grammar School Heads Association would «codify» a commitment to improving admission
rates for disadvantaged pupils in a «formal agreement with the Department for Education».
Research for the Sutton Trust suggests other state
schools in England take twice the
rate of smart, poor pupils compared to
grammar schools.
Five other
grammar schools were previously
rated as requires improvement and one — Chatham
grammar school for boys in Kent — fell into special measures.
But he also said the higher
ratings given to
grammar schools might be because their teaching was «more effective».
Across the country, secondary moderns were less likely than
grammar schools to be
rated «good» or «outstanding».
This holds true even when the non-selective
schools have the same Ofsted
rating as the
grammars.
The data also found that among pupils eligible for free
school meals, white children had the lowest
rate of entry to
grammar schools.
The Sutton Trust, an education think - tank, is publishing new analysis on entry
rates to
grammar schools which shows that, on average, bright pupils do just as well in the best comprehensives as they do in
grammar schools.
Ofsted has
rated 99 % of
grammar school places good or better, and 82 % outstanding.
For example, Rainham Mark
grammar school last year took over the inadequate - rated Twydall Primary School in Gillingham,
school last year took over the inadequate -
rated Twydall Primary
School in Gillingham,
School in Gillingham, Kent.
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Grammar schools select only a tiny proportion of children for the best education, leaving others with a second
rate choice.
Schools Week revealed last month that half of the academies currently sponsored by
grammars were
rated as requires improvement or inadequate by Ofsted.