Is attending a grammar school bad for your mental health?
We explore new evidence that suggests attending a grammar school isn’t independently related to increased risk of mental ill-health.
How many children are ever in need up to age 18?
DfE statistics show that on 31st March 2023, 3.4% of all children aged 0-17 were defined as in need. But we estimate that around a quarter of children will be classified as in need at some point before their 18th birthday.
Splitting the disadvantage gap within and between schools, part two
Schools' Progress 8 scores for disadvantaged pupils tend to be correlated with the percentage of disadvantaged pupils in a school's cohort. But this is the case in some regions more than others.
Splitting the disadvantage gap within and between schools, part one
Around 8% of the gap in Progress 8 scores between disadvantaged pupils and non-disadvantaged pupils in 2024 appears to be attributable to the way in which pupils from both groups are shared out between schools
The schools that send no pupils on to A-Levels in the EBacc subjects (and a few others)
We look at the proportion of schools who send no pupils on to study various subjects at A-Level, broken down by gender.
Intersectionality and Key Stage 5 subject choice
We look at how likely pupils are to progress to study A-Levels, broken down by gender, ethnicity and level of disadvantage.
The socio-economic gap in teenage motherhood
We use data from ECHILD to look at how likely high-achieving young women are to become teenage mothers.
Exclusions and suspensions in 2023/24
Based on our analysis of attendance registers, rates of exclusions and suspensions in 2023/24 were higher than last year
Pupil mobility in secondary schools
The highlights of a recent report looking into rates of pupil mobility in English secondary schools, comparing pupils in academies with those in local authority schools