‘Wide variation’ for academy chains

England’s best academy chains are raising standards for their poorest pupils and outperforming other state schools, but the weakest are lagging far behind, research suggests.

It concludes that there is “enormous variation” between chains, and the results and improvement of their disadvantaged pupils.

The research, commissioned by the Sutton Trust, analysed school performance figures to look at what disadvantaged pupils attending schools in an academy chain achieve based on five different measures.

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