Here at Datalab, we’re often prompted to write new posts based on the insightful comments and awkward questions that readers post in the blog’s comments section. This post is actually based on my attempts to answer an awkward question from one of my Datalab colleagues, but here’s hoping it prompts even more questions and comments to keep us going with ideas for future posts.
To come to the point, I recently wrote a post that looked at the composition of MATs in terms of school phase, finding that nearly 80% of MATs are either primary-only, or a mix of mainstream phases. Secondary-only MATs make up just 5% of MATs, and there is currently only one large secondary-only MAT (that is, a MAT with ten or more open schools).
And the awkward question was: why are there so few secondary-only MATs?
We’ll be using data from Get Information about Schools from 2019-24.
