Sentences with phrase «more pupils eligible for free school meals»

Research by Policy Exchange shows that, as of 2012, just three of the 164 remaining grammar schools had 10 per cent or more pupils eligible for free school meals.

The figures also show that coastal schools have a more deprived intake, with 3 % more pupils eligible for free school meals - a figure similar to the achievement gap.

Non-religious comprehensives admit 11 % more pupils eligible for free school meals than expected, Jewish secondaries 61 % fewer.

Not exact matches

Alan Milburn, a former Labour UK cabinet minister, recently published a report showing that pupils eligible for free school meals in England are 50 % more likely to obtain five good GCSEs than their counterparts in Wales.

The same analysis also found that pupils from poorer backgrounds who performed just as well as their more well off peers were still less likely to attend grammars, with 66 per cent of children who achieve level five in both English and Maths at Key Stage 2 who are not eligible for free school meals going to a grammar school compared with 40 per cent of similarly high achieving children who are eligible for free school meals.

The poorest fifth schools, as defined by the number of pupils eligible for free school meals, spent on average 31 per cent more per pupil than the richest fifth.

To look at this difference more closely, additional, separate analyses were conducted on pupils eligible for free school meals and their peers.

Pupils eligible for free school meals made more progress in participating schools than in comparison schools.

One future step may be to try and develop the intervention into a more structured programme targeted specifically at low achieving pupils and pupils eligible for free school meals.

Ofsted notes the «more demanding key stage 2 SATs and new measures have resulted in a gap of 21 percentage points in the percentage of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics between pupils eligible for free school meals and their peers.

Alongside its demand for new accountability measures for schools, the report suggests reforms to pupil premium funding so it can «better target funding for disadvantage» by allocating more to pupils eligible for free school meals «throughout their schooling», and the establishment of a Northern Powerhouse Schools Improvementschools, the report suggests reforms to pupil premium funding so it can «better target funding for disadvantage» by allocating more to pupils eligible for free school meals «throughout their schooling», and the establishment of a Northern Powerhouse Schools ImprovementSchools Improvement Board.

To be eligible charter schools must serve a student population with at least 55 percent of their pupils eligible for free or reduced price meals (FRL), or they must be physically located in the attendance area of a public elementary school with 55 percent or more FRL qualified students.

They are also much more likely to be eligible for free school meals and therefore the pupil premium.

More than a fifth of school staff are worried that pupils eligible for free school meals are not claiming them.

The government claims the changes in eligibility will mean that 50,000 more pupils will become eligible for free school meals, while Labour and the Children's Society say around a million children who have become eligible under the transitional arrangements stand to lose out once the new system fully comes into force.

Elements primary, which plans to open in September 2015, will serve an area of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, with a «predominantly white working class community», where more than half the pupils will be expected to be eligible for free school meals.

However, one inescapable — and deeply uncomfortable truth underlying these latest figures is that certain groups of pupils continue to more likely to be excluded than others: boys; pupils with SEN; pupils who are eligible for Free School Meals; and pupils from certain minority ethnic backgrounds.