Sentences with phrase «proportion of disadvantaged children»
«That's why the proportion of disadvantaged children at grammar schools is extremely low, just 2.6 per cent of kids on free school meals,» Powell said.
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For example, the top 5 selective schools recorded here have a very small proportion of disadvantaged children (c. 6 % to 17 %).
However it highlighted that there was still a large 18 per cent gap between the proportion of disadvantaged children reaching these levels compared with their peers.
Not exact matches
The sample was stratified by country and electoral ward type to over-represent families in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and wards with a high proportion of disadvantaged and ethnic minority families.19 Electoral wards were defined as ethnic minority (at least 30 % of population «Black» or «Asian», 1991 census), with the remainder defined as disadvantaged (upper quartile Child Poverty Index20) or advantaged (not in upper quartile Child Poverty Index).
The programme has targeted areas according to measures of relative disadvantage including the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD), free school meals and the proportion of children under four in households receiving income related benefits.
It is adequate to conclude, from international perspective, that the most disadvantaged schools, especially those serving large proportions of aboriginal children and other children with special needs, should be much better resourced if equity is to be enhanced in Australia.
The report said: «In the context of creating a fairly funded system, government should also consider the external effects that may combine to compound the effects on pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, including place poverty (living in neighbourhoods with high proportions of poor children, attending schools serving higher proportions of disadvantaged pupils) gender and ethnicity.»
The results of disadvantaged children, and the proportion of pupils taking the English Baccalaureate, will also be published at trust level for the first time.
The Sutton Trust report, Background to Success, said: «In the context of creating a fairly funded system, government should also consider the external effects that may combine to compound the effects on pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, including place poverty (living in neighbourhoods with high proportions of poor children, attending schools serving higher proportions of disadvantaged pupils) gender and ethnicity.»
Area - level explanatory variables will include: accessibility and remoteness, as measured by the Accessibility / Remoteness Index of Australia Plus (ARIA +); 54 socioeconomic disadvantage, as measured by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Socioeconomic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA); 55 presence of Aboriginal Medical Services; presence of an AMIHS; proportion of Aboriginal pregnancies / births in an area managed by an AMIHS; numbers of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children attending preschool; numbers of full - time equivalent health workers (including general medical practitioners, nurses, midwives and Aboriginal health workers) per 10 000 population; measures of social capital from the NSW Population Health Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each area.57