Grammar Schools: Admissions
(asked on 3rd February 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children (a) in receipt of free school meals, (b) with a statement of special educational needs, (c) from a BME community and (d) looked after by a local authority received a place in a grammar school in January 2012.
The Department for Education does not hold information on pupils who received a place at a state-funded selective school but does hold information on the number of pupils enrolled in year 7 in state-funded selective schools in January each year. The figures for January 2012 are given in the table below.
Year 7 pupils in state-funded mainstream schools in England, January 2012
Number of pupils | Of which, percentage enrolled at | |
All pupils | 536,145 | 4.1% |
(a) Pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals | 96,310 | 0.7% |
(b) Pupils with statements of special educational needs | 10,985 | 0.6% |
(c) Pupils from a black or minority ethnic group | 129,700 | 5.2% |
(d) Pupils who were looked after for at least 12 months in the year ending 31 March 2012 | 1,925 | 0.7% |
Source: School census and national pupil database
Notes:
- Includes pupils who are sole or dual main registrations.
- Numbers are rounded to the nearest 5.
- A small number of looked after children records collected from local authorities could not be matched to pupil records in the school census.
- These figures exclude:
pupils who received an offer of a place which was not taken up;
pupils who enrolled in state-funded selective schools, but left the school roll before the school census day in January; and
selective schools which do not have pupils in year 7.