Sentences with phrase «more affluent pupils»
The same analysis for secondary schools shows grammar schools, academically selective at age 11, are by far the most biased towards more affluent pupils -LRB--98.8 percentage points)-- suggesting they aren't quite the «engines of social mobility» some grammar school advocates say they are.
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Children on free school meals achieve almost half a GCSE grade less in Attainment 8 core subjects than more affluent pupils, according to the report, and 88 per cent of this gap is believed to be due to differences between pupils at the same school.
Not exact matches
«Disadvantaged areas already tend to receive higher funding, so the pupil premium would be relatively smaller for a deprived local authority and relatively larger for a more affluent local authority,» said the report.
A negative score means that, on average, students in property - poor districts actually receive more state and local funding per pupil than students in more affluent areas do.
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.
Equally, pupils from less affluent backgrounds who took part «are more likely to be highly motivated» and «more able» than their peers who did not sign up.
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.&raMore 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.&ramore affluent backgrounds.»
The Per Pupil Revenue Limit (PPRL) analysis shows that districts of higher poverty have significantly lower PPRL, and therefore less ability to receive aid and levy appropriate taxes to fund public education than more affluent districts.
The six projects that we have funded all have a secure grounding in neuroscience and show promise as possible means of narrowing the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their more affluent peers.
He says that if pupils are in families that are struggling with unemployment, bad housing and poor health, the ability of schools to close the gap with more affluent children is going to be limited.
A project called Challenging the Gap, which helped schools to collaborate with each other to help poorer pupils achieve as highly as their more affluent peers, had no impact.
And we know that disadvantaged pupils from grammar schools are almost twice as likely to go to a top Russell Group university as those from more affluent comprehensive schools.