Sentences with phrase «large numbers of grammar schools»

In areas where there are large numbers of grammar schools, such as Kent, Medway, Buckinghamshire and Lincolnshire, many schools lose more than a fifth of their potential bright pupils to grammars.

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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.

And a large number of non-academically selective state schools were found to be more socially selective than grammar schools.

Performance depends on intake — a school where there are a large number of previously low - achieving pupils is unlikely to be as high performing as a selective grammar school.

He added that there was a risk that pupils in areas with large numbers of selective places, more grammar schools would «reduce the results achieved by poorer children» on average.