The North East and North West now have proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) the most socially selective top comprehensives in the is still lower in the top 500 comprehensive schools country by Progress 8 with the North East by far the compared to all comprehensive schools. [...] the FSM rate of the intakes of the top Progress 8 • For schools in multi-academy trusts (MATs), on schools was 4.3 percentage points lower than the pupils average the smaller the MATs they are in, the lower living in their own catchment areas, and 5.8 percentage their FSM rates and the larger the FSM gap with their points for top Attainment 8 schools. [...] In 2016, the year academies over-represented in now have a negative FSM gap of of the data used in the last the top 500 schools. [...] This polarisation catchment areas.10 This is still the English education system of top academies by type the case in 2021/22, although over recent years has been the points to increasing inequality the size of the FSM gap for all encouragement of more schools in the system, particularly free schools has decreased from to move into multi-academy since converter academies are -3.6 percentage points. [...] However, There is also considerable catchment area compared to by 2021/22 we find that the variation in the social selectivity non-religious schools due to proportion of London schools in of faith schools depending admissions criteria related to the top 500 has risen sharply to on the religion.
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