Meanwhile, across town,
more affluent students take and pass the test with ease.
Not exact matches
Contrastingly, figures are much higher in Rutland, a
more affluent area, where 36 per cent of
students have
taken triple science as a GCSE choice.
Taking into account place and location, «Background to Success» suggested that
students who lived in poor neighbourhoods were less likely to go on to advanced level courses than
students who lived in
more affluent neighbourhoods.
If we want low - income
students from less - educated families to get the same kind of high school education their
more affluent peers are getting, we need to give them access to the same knowledge those peers are
taking in at home.