The poorest children are
11 months
behind when starting school
Closing Gaps Early
High performing comprehensive schools take in
half the number
of poorer pupils than the average school
Selective Comprehensives
Disadvantaged students are
twice as likely
to leave formal education without GCSEs in English and maths than their better-off classmates
EEF’s The Attainment Gap
Britain’s most influential people are
over 5 times
more likely to have been to private school
Elitist Britain 2019
8 top schools
send as many pupils to Oxbridge as three-quarters of all schools
Access to Advantage
This means if you’re born into a well off family, you’re
more than 2.5x times
more likely to end up wealthy yourself
Recent Changes to Intergenerational Mobility in Britain
To change this, we work at every stage of a young person's life. We want to make sure that every child – no matter who their parents are, what school they go to, or where they live – has the chance to succeed.