Sentences with phrase «more affluent backgrounds»

It seems that private school students have higher scores because they come from more affluent backgrounds, not because the schools they attend are better educational institutions.

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.

Figures presented to councillors show that 80 % of high - achieving children from more affluent backgrounds in Kent attend grammar schools whereas in poorer families, it is only only 57 % - a difference of more than 700 children.

However, pupils from more affluent backgrounds are less likely to go to university if they do the four - week holiday course, with a 10 percentage point drop in girls and 8 point drop for boys.

But in the early 1970s many universities circumvented the original spirit of affirmative action by recruiting African American students from more affluent backgrounds and those who had attended majority - white high schools.

More support is needed to ensure these pupils are given vital additional support with their learning in order to keep up with children of similar ability from more affluent backgrounds.»

So Steps 1 and 2 privilege the schools with more students from more affluent backgrounds.

Students who are not fluent in English and whose parents are not college educated and have low incomes generally fare worse on standardized tests than students who come from more affluent backgrounds and whose parents are highly educated.

Out of the 300 largest cities (based on school - age population), about 500 schools (or around 4 percent) have students from low - income families who are outperforming their peers from more affluent backgrounds, according to the group's 2017 Education Equality Index.

This is likely to have been caused by a higher proportion of interviews with carers from more affluent backgrounds being conducted in the evenings when children were in bed, to fit round working patterns (children with full - time working mothers were less likely to have been observed).