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POORER PUPILS STRUGGLING
Released 20/08/2008
Study shows disadvantaged students not making grades
Poorer children are less likely to achieve good exam grades, according to new figures.
Research into the GCSE results of disadvantaged children suggests they underperform compared to better-off pupils.
An eighth of children who receive free school meals fail to gain five good GCSE results, according to figures obtained by the campaign to end child poverty, who called for the government to make more funds available.
London is the one anomaly, where the London Challenge has helped struggling secondary schools.
Hilary Fisher, director of Campaign to End Child Poverty, said: "It is unacceptable that children have the odds stacked against them simply by default of having poorer parents."