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| NGSA Hon. Secretary:- Mrs Jenny Jones, 18 Leomansley Road, Lichfield, Staffordshire WS13 8AW |
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9th July 2003
Fools Rush In...
On its website, the Socialist Education Association has a two-page paper entitled Pupil Achievement in Secondary Education, dated February 2003.
This includes a table showing the percentage of pupils achieving 5 or more grade A*-C GCSEs over a 4-year period in upper (secondary modern) and grammar schools in Buckinghamshire. Percentages are also given for county and national averages. The percentages are as follows:
| 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | |
| Upper schools | 37% | 39% | 39% | 42% |
| Grammar schools | 97% | 97% | 98% | 97% |
| County average | 60% | 61% | 62% | 63% |
| England average | 46% | 48% | 49% | 50% |
So in 2001, Buckinghamshire’s grammar and secondary modern schools, taken together, were achieving at a rate 13% above the national average.
But according to the Socialist Education Association, these percentages show that academic selection is damaging standards. |
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