Sentences with phrase «poor white pupils»

On Wednesday, the education select committee called for greater efforts to support poor white pupils, who had much worse exam results than disadvantaged black and Asian pupils.

These struggling schools were most likely to be in disadvantaged areas with a high proportion of poor white pupils, to have a high turnover of staff, and heads and teachers facing «burnout».

Poor white pupils are now the worst performing ethnic group in education, a report by Ofsted will say this week.

Not exact matches

Bangladeshi, Indian, black African and Pakistani pupils from poorer homes were also found to perform «well above» the national average, while white working class boys achieve the lowest grades at GCSE of any main ethnic group.

It found that white British pupils from the poorest families were the least likely to go to university.

«We regularly castigate ourselves — rightly — for the poor performance of white British pupils.

The analysis also found that poorer pupils took fewer STEM subjects, particularly if they were white British or black.