Tag Archives: Educational disadvantage

Four Outstanding Schools and Disadvantaged Students

Posted on May 7, 2025 by odeboyz

In the 2022 to 2023 school year….25.2% of disadvantaged pupils and 52.4% of all other pupils got a grade 5 or above.1 The attainment gap disadvantaged children suffer is a chasm. Those schools which reduce the gap are adding value … Continue reading →

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Disadvantaged Students and Educational Innovation

Posted on February 14, 2024 by odeboyz

“…in 2014, only 36.5 per cent of disadvantaged pupils achieved 5 A*-C including English and maths GCSEs, compared with 64.0 per cent of other pupils.”1 Bright Futures Educational Trust2 controls South Shore Academy, Blackpool. Achieving 5 Grade ‘A*-Cs’ is remote … Continue reading →

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The Institutional Failure of Disadvantaged Students

Posted on November 18, 2021 by odeboyz

School leaders are best placed to assess their pupils’ needs and use the funding to improve attainment, drawing on evidence of effective practice. It is up to school leaders to decide how to spend the pupil premium.1 ‘Closing the attainment … Continue reading →

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Ben Bradley MP (In a previous life a workhouse manager)

Posted on June 21, 2021 by odeboyz

“…..[Mansfield] Tory MP Ben Bradley has claimed that free school meals vouchers are “effectively” a handout to a crack den and brothel. Even if this is true – and the evidence for it is less than overwhelming – so what? … Continue reading →

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