In many countries, school evaluations take into account the average progress their students make on standardised tests relative to their peers.

White working-class young people face some of the biggest barriers to educational success in England, with pupils in parts of the capital failing to benefit from the its wider “London effect”, according to analysis.

As a teacher, I saw first-hand how education can lift children out of incredibly difficult circumstances.

Latest Teach First research reveals the stark reality facing England's most disadvantaged pupils — and calls for urgent action.

Pupils experiencing persistent disadvantage consistently demonstrate some of the lowest educational outcomes in the system – falling, on average, nearly two years of learning behind their peers by the time they sit their GCSEs.

We use Key Stage 2 data for 2025 from the National Pupil Database (NPD). We include all 653,000 pupils at state-funded mainstream and special schools.

Nearly half (44 per cent) of the gap between the GCSE results of disadvantaged pupils and their peers already exists at age 11, according to new Education Policy Institute (EPI) and Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) research, underscoring the critical role of early years and...

Almost half of the GCSE attainment gap between poorer pupils and their better-off peers is “locked in” by the end of primary school, new research has warned.

Many of the biggest challenges facing the education system – including absence, disengagement and SEND – are complex, interrelated and are shaped by socioeconomic circumstance.

Smacking children can lead to future behavioural problems and worse exam results, according to new research.