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

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.

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In particular, he has pointed to the impact of the pupil premium, which was introduced in April 2011, and provides additional funding to schools for each pupil who is eligible for free school meals.

At present schools can receive # 488 for each pupil who is eligible for free school meals, under a measure introduced by the coalition government last year.

The PDG provides additional funding to schools based on the number of pupils on eligible for Free School Meals (e-FSM) and also for those children who are looked after (LAC).

Targeted resources bode well for the «pupil premium» policy, which provides additional resources for disadvantaged pupils who are eligible for free school meals.

Schools» eligibility for a bursary will be decided based on the number of pupils who are eligible for free school meals or pupil premium.

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.

Williams continued: «We have always said that the PDG is there to support all pupils who are eligible for Free School Meals, not just those that are struggling academically.

The latest data shows that 59 per cent of pupils who are eligible for free school meals achieved the expected standard in maths by the end of primary school, compared to over three - quarters (78 per cent) of all other pupils.

The results found that grammar schools only take in a small number of pupils who are, or have been, eligible for free school meals.

Many of the pupils who fall behind do come from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, although they are not technically eligible for free school meals or the pupil premium.

These characteristics include, in addition to a variety of measures of student achievement as of 1996, the percentages of students in the school that are eligible for free school meals, those who are nonwhite, and those with special educational needs; the pupil - teacher ratio and the number of students enrolled; whether the school is all girls, all boys, a religious school, or in London; and several measures of the qualifications of the teaching staff.

The issues it highlighted included the labelling of «working class boys», as the DfE does not collect information on pupils» socio - economic status and the statistics quoted were actually about white make students who were eligible for free school meals in year 11.

Only 21 % of the 93.5 % of students in the UK not at private school receive tuition, and within these students are the staggeringly large 15 % of secondary school pupils in the UK who are eligible for Free School school receive tuition, and within these students are the staggeringly large 15 % of secondary school pupils in the UK who are eligible for Free School school pupils in the UK who are eligible for Free School School Meals.

«We have always said that the PDG is there to support all pupils who are eligible for Free School Meals, not just those that are struggling academically.

The Pupil Development Grant (PDG) helps schools tackle the effects of poverty and disadvantage on attainment and is targeted at learners who are eligible for Free School Meals or are Looked After Children.

Critics of the expansion plans have focused on the low number of pupils attending grammar schools who are eligible for free school meals - used as a traditional measure of poverty.

[1] 2.5 % of pupils who entered grammars in 2015/16 are eligible for free school meals compared to 14.1 % nationally, whereas 11 % of pupils who entered grammar school are likely to have come from prep schools, compared to around 6.5 % nationally.

Of those aged 11 - 16, 17 % of pupils who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) have received private tuition at some point in their schooling, compared with 26 % of students who do not receive FSM.

The study found that attainment had been improving for pupils who were eligible for free school meals for less than 60 per cent of their time in schools.

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The findings suggest England's grammars take only a tiny proportion of pupils who are, or have been, eligible for free school meals.

In 2012 - 13, it was extended to pupils who have been eligible for free school meals at any point in the previous six years

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.

The funds are available for pupils who are, or have been over the previous six years, eligible for free school meals or in care.

«These attainment gaps are significantly larger than the gaps between free school meals - eligible pupils in all schools and their peers who are not eligible for free school meals,» the report said.

Research shows that, on average, the proportion of pupils in grammar schools who are eligible for free school meals is less than 3 per cent, and the Labour MP Lisa Nandy (pictured top) warned today that the government's proposals could see it «inflict an experiment» on millions of children based on «flimsy evidence» in favour of grammars.

And while the few pupils who go to grammar schools and who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) tend to have better results, FSM - eligible pupils in the same areas who do not attend grammar schools — which is the majority — are likely to have lower attainment than those in other parts of England.

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.