Sentences with phrase «pupil eligible for free school meals»

The reading ability of pupils eligible for free school meals at age 7 in 2015 was 6 percentage points closer to the level of their peers than 5 years ago.

The programme was found to have a differential effect for pupils eligible for free school meals compared to their peers.

The data also showed that among pupils eligible for free school meals, white children had the lowest rate of entry to grammar schools.

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

Nearly all grammar schools have fewer than 10 per cent of pupils eligible for free school meals.

However the improvement was small for pupils eligible for free school meals between 60 per cent and 90 per cent of the time.

The data also found that among pupils eligible for free school meals, white children had the lowest rate of entry to grammar schools.

If the premium is spent on pupils eligible for free school meals in schools with high proportion of them, the effects could be substantially higher and the pupil premium could go some way to closing the large attainment gap for disadvantaged pupils.

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

Jenny Whittle, Conservative councillor and committee chair, has said that figures are improving with grammar pupils eligible for free school meals now over three per cent, but admitted she would like to see that figure doubled.

Conservative councillor Jenny Whittle said figures were improving with grammar pupils eligible for free school meals now over 3 %.

At the age of 11, the gap was 16.8 % but rose to 26.2 % at 16 when exam results of pupils eligible for free school meals compared with those not eligible.

The attainment gaps between pupils eligible for free school meals and their classmates are not only wider at Key Stages 2 and 4 than those found nationally, but they widen as pupils move through their secondary education.»

In place since 2012, the PDG will be worth # 1,150 per pupil eligible for free school meals in 2016/17.

New, highly significant research carried out by the Guardian and published today for the first time has revealed the huge extent to which English «faith» schools exclude pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM).

Research by the Sutton Trust in 2014 showed that pupils eligible for free school meals who scored in the top 10 per cent nationally at the end of primary school were significantly less likely to be entered for the EBacc, compared to their wealthier peers who achieved the same level aged 11.

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

In 2017, over two thirds (68 per cent) of pupils eligible for free school meals met the expected standard in phonics, compared to 83 per cent of all other pupils.

St Mary's University, where Ms Greening is speaking, recently published research showing that counting pupils eligible for free school meals had become an unreliable measure of poverty.

In Kent, just 27 % of pupils eligible for free school meals get five good GCSEs, compared with 45 % in London.

To gather the evidence and statistics apparently needed to lift the ban, the government may turn to schemes introduced by grammar schools that favour pupils eligible for free school meals.

GCSE results, including for pupils eligible for free school meals and those with special educational needs, improved at a faster rate in 2009 - 2011 compared with the results in similar schools.

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 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.

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.

While 46 per cent of pupils overall failed to get five GCSE A * to C grades including English and maths in 2015, this rose to 73 per cent among pupils eligible for free school meals, and more than 89 per cent of children in care.

To measure social divergence between school and neighborhood, we calculated the school's percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) over five reception cohorts and compared it to the % of pupils eligible for FSM in the school's recruitment neighborhood.

In 2011 - 12, the Pupil Premium will be allocated to those pupils eligible for free school meals.

The proportions of pupils eligible for free school meals and with special educational needs are both higher than the national average.

In a Holyrood debate this afternoon, Alex Salmond, the Scottish First Minister, has tabled a motion recognising «that free school meals help tackle child poverty and promote child welfare and educational attainment; further recognises that free school meals save families at least # 330 per child per year; confirms its commitment to increasing the number of primary school pupils eligible for free school meals».

According to the Selective Comprehensives 2017 report by the charity Sutton Trust, the top 500 comprehensive schools, based on GCSE attainment, are taking just 9.4 per cent of pupils eligible for free school meals.

The programme builds on evidence that footballers can influence the way young people view reading, particularly among boys and pupils eligible for free school meals.

Encouragingly, there are signs that these interventions disproportionality benefit low attaining and pupils eligible for Free School Meals, and so could be effective approaches to «narrow the gap».

Plans to provide free transport to pupils eligible for free school meals, which was announced in the Spring Budget, could cost up to # 5,000 per pup

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.

The region also had the worst GCSE results in England in 2015, with nearly 46 per cent of pupils not achieving the benchmark five or more A * to C grades including English and maths, with an additional 73 per cent of East Midlands» pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) failing to achieve this benchmark.

The EPI's analysis used data from from inspections that took place from 2005/06 to 2014/15 and found that secondary schools with up to five per cent of pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) are over three times as likely to be rated «outstanding» as schools with at least 23 per cent FSM (48 per cent compared with 14 per cent).

Plans to provide free transport to pupils eligible for free school meals, which was announced in the Spring Budget, could cost up to # 5,000 per pupil, a councillor has warned.

GCSE results, including for pupils eligible for free school meals and those with special educational needs, improved at a faster rate 2009 - 2011 compared with the results in similar schools.

A small positive (but not significant) effect was found for pupils eligible for free school meals, while a negative (and statistically significant) effect was detected for pupils not eligible for free school meals.

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.

The top performing 500 comprehensive schools in England, based on GCSE attainment, continue to be highly socially selective, taking just 9.4 % of pupils eligible for Free School Meals (FSM), just over half the rate of the average comprehensive (17.2 %)

This revealed a positive effect for pupils eligible for free school meals.

It says that in the past 10 years, the proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals has doubled in Lincolnshire and nearly halved in Southwark.

The Skinners» School in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, gives five places, out of 150, to pupils eligible for free school meals.

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 Improvement Board.

Last year the gap between richer and poorer students reached a record high, with pupils eligible for free school meals — a long term indicator of poverty — said to be less than half as likely to go on to higher education than their most affluent peers.

That's why, when I worked for Tony Blair, I helped introduce a new right of access — clauses 95 and 96 of the guidance — for pupils eligible for free school meals to free travel to a choice of three schools rather than the one designated by the local authority.

This is a slightly tricky comparison to make because the government performance tables exclude categories in which there are fewer than five pupils, so about 50 of the 164 grammar schools in the country that entered fewer than five pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) for GCSEs that year are excluded from the analysis.

It is also addressing a question about admissions policies for new grammar schools - with the suggestion that a fair intake needed to reflect more than counting the number of pupils eligible for free school meals.