Sentences with phrase «low numbers of pupils»

Some fear that organisations running academy chains will want to drive efficiencies by merging tiny village schools with very low numbers of pupils.

Grammar schools in Kent have been criticised for having low numbers of pupils from poorer backgrounds.

While they currently have low numbers of pupils with allergy, they are thinking ahead and want to be prepared with correct policy to ensure good practice

BMA analysis also found that fewer schools in deprived areas offered the sciences as three individual GCSEs, and lower number of pupils study the qualifications at schools that do.

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.

The low number of pupils achieving a GCSE in English and maths has been blamed for a recruitment crisis in early years education.

Moloney argued that the lower number of pupils attending Broadoak would mean the pupils with special needs could be taught in smaller class sizes.

Not exact matches

Three PFI schools have been forced to close because of low pupil numbers, but local authorities are still financially tied to the private financiers.

The former may be the result of lower than anticipated students, although for academies the majority of grant income is based on lagged pupil numbers and doesn't vary in year.

Wilshaw is expected to say that the number of 16 to 18 year - olds being taken on as apprentices is as low as it was a decade ago, and the low figures are partially a result of schools failing to push pupils down vocational routes.

Labour MP Lucy Powell has criticised London's grammar schools for educating a «shamefully low» number of pupils from poor backgrounds.

A study of 49 states by The Education Trust found that school districts with high numbers of low - income and minority students receive substantially less state and local money per pupil than school districts with few poor and minority children.

The average number of entries overall per pupil has fallen since 2013, standing at 0.70 in 2016, which is lower than any other time in the period under review and comes after an increase between 2010 and 2013 from 0.75 to 0.80.

For instance, ensuring disadvantaged pupils are entered for the same number of subjects as all other pupils would lower the forecast gap in Attainment 8 scores from 10.8 points to 8.8 in 2021, a significant reduction.

Because of this, schools could see a larger number of pupils than usual get lower grades in that subject.

While the UK allows ample time off at Christmas and Easter (11 and 10 days, respectively), it gives pupils the fifth - lowest number of holidays during the summer, with just 37 days.

There is a similar trend in primary schools, with 11 per cent of schools with a high proportion of children on FSM rated «outstanding», compared to 25 per cent of schools with low numbers of FSM pupils.

Where schools pay a high per - pupil amount to offer some courses (for example, AP Spanish or remedial reading) to a small number of students, they may find lower - cost options exist via distance learning or contracted services.

Grammar schools in the capital were today accused of having a «shamefully low» number of pupils from poor backgrounds.

Mr Trobe said the move would disadvantage schools with «a high number of incoming pupils whose Sats results are at a relatively low level.

About half of this gap is due to the location of high attaining schools in catchment areas with lower numbers of disadvantaged pupils, but the rest is due to social selection in admissions occurring even within those neighbourhoods.

The findings come as the UTC project flounders: seven have closed or announced they will do so because of low pupil numbers and financial issues.

The figures do not suggest that schools are reducing their staffing numbers — with the teacher to pupil ratio remaining at an all - time low of about nine children to every teacher.

According to Interserve's accounts for year ending 31 August 2016, Interserve asked EFA for additional funding for Crawshaw because of low pupil numbers.

Today's figures suggest pupils in grammar schools are more often taught by qualified, experienced teachers than those in schools with higher numbers of pupils from low - income families.

'' «Withering on the vine» might work in the private sector but it is not an acceptable outcome for children... Struggling schools need rapid help to turn around, not a long drawn - out death of declining resources and numbers, condemning the remaining pupils to lower standards,» he added.

Charter schools have a lower cost per pupil than traditional schools: Based on an analysis of relevant school costs and the number of enrolled high school students, the data shows the per pupil per pupil costs for Alliance charter high school students to be $ 10,649 per year, compared to $ 15,372 per year for students at traditional public high schools within LAUSD, that is, we find a per pupil cost differential of 44 % in favor of Alliance charter schools.

Wilshaw has been a key advocate of having UTCs function as part of multi-academy trusts, a policy now adopted by the government after several standalone colleges were hit with financial problems caused by low pupil numbers.

Interest in history appears to be falling, however, with the subject's numbers slumping by eight per cent, to the lowest proportion of pupils taking it since 2013.

An example of «geographic» sparsity is that districts with low pupil density typically experience higher per pupil transportation costs as they are transporting a small number of pupils over a greater distance.

This is not the first sign of financial troubles at UTCs as a result of low pupil numbers.

«It pains me to say that a combination of cynicism, dumbing - down and lowered ambitions meant that a significant number of schools were in the habit of entering a high number of pupils just for BTEC science, rather than for GCSE,» she told AMs.

Each year, schools receive additional per pupil funding based on the number of students that are classified as low - income, special education, English learners, or students in foster care.

Secondary modern heads, who did not want to be named, told Schools Week they had made inspectors acknowledge the high number of low - attaining pupils in their schools compared with nearby grammars.

So over time, he is committed to moving the [per - pupil] base funding (which averages roughly $ 8,500 — 30 percent below the national average) up for all districts, even those with lower numbers of needy students.

Around half of this gap is down to schools having catchment areas that have lower numbers of disadvantaged pupils, but the rest is due to social selection, researchers argue.

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.

At large schools, costs like the principal's salary are spread over a greater number of students, resulting in lower funding per pupil than at small schools.

In Nevada, for instance, predominantly middle - income schools spend $ 10,400 per pupil, whereas schools serving just a moderate number of low - income students spend only $ 6,100 per pupil.

Ward previously said the closure plans were «nothing to do with the quality of education being provided», but because of low pupil numbers and the PFI deal signed by Wirral Council to refurbish the school years ago.

It proposes to require «all selective schools to have in place strategies to ensure fair access», and says that legislation would require selective schools to «prioritise the admission of, or set aside a number of specific places for, pupils of lower household income in their over-subscription criteria».

Simon Wallis, Director of The Hepworth Wakefield, said: «In September 2017, it was announced that the number of pupils taking arts subjects at GCSE had fallen to the lowest level in a decade.