The attainment gap between disadvantaged primary school pupils and their better-off peers has widened to its largest level in 10 years.
The government said the data, published today, suggested that disruption to learning during the Covid-19 pandemic “has had a greater impact on disadvantaged pupils”.
Headline key stage 2 SATs results were published earlier this year, but today’s publication breaks the data down by pupil and school characteristic.
The data shows the disadvantage gap index, used by government to track the gap between poorer and better-off pupils, increased to 3.21 this year.
