Report - Selective Comprehensives 2024 - The social composition of top comprehensive schools

Selective Comprehensives 2024: The social composition of top comprehensive schools 3 All schools in scope were ranked according to their scores on each of the attainment measures outlined above from the 2021/22 academic year and the top 500 performing schools formed the group of interest for each measure.3 2.2 Measuring the social composition of the top 500 comprehensives FSM is a proxy measure of. [...] In this report, a weighted average approach is used, where the FSM rate is calculated by dividing the total number of FSM pupils across the three intake years in the group of schools by the total number of pupils in these intakes in the group of schools. [...] 3.3 The social composition of the top 500 comprehensive schools Table 1 shows the average FSM rate for the top 500 schools for the four different attainment measures used in this study, alongside the average FSM rate for all secondary schools. [...] Selective Comprehensives 2024: The social composition of top comprehensive schools 9 4 Characteristics of top comprehensive schools 4.1 The social composition of the Top 500 schools by different characteristics In this section, we present findings by looking at the FSM rates in school intakes and FSM gaps for the top 500 schools (Progress 8 and Attainment 8) compared to all secondary schools split. [...] Selective Comprehensives 2024: The social composition of top comprehensive schools 26 Catchment FSM rate The catchment FSM rate is the proportion of pupils eligible for FSM in the intake year (usually Year 7) who live in the school’s catchment area (as defined above) for the analysis year and the preceding two years.