Clause36
Education and Inspections Bill
10:45 am
Nick Gibb (Shadow Minister (Schools), Education; Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, Conservative)
How then does the hon. Gentleman account for the fact that there are comprehensive schools in leafy suburbs where 37 or 38 per cent. of children achieve five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C and other schools, such as the Wellington school in Telford, which creams of 40 per cent. of its children to grammar schools, where 73 per cent. of children achieve five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C? Is that not a result of what happens in the school? Wellington school employs strict setting and streaming, whereas in other schools in those leafy suburbs children are taught in mixed-ability classes?