London’s “remarkable” turnaround in school performance will be put at risk if funding is diverted away from the capital to boost other areas, education experts have warned.
The latest GCSE results show London pupils have pulled further away from those in the rest of the country, with around one third of GCSEs taken in the capital given top grades compared with a quarter or less in most other regions.
London had the biggest growth from 2019, the last year that exams were taken, with a 6.9 percentage point increase in top grade GCSEs compared with 4.2 points for the East Midlands.
But experts fear that in order to narrow the gap between London and elsewhere, resources could be redistributed which would hamper the capital’s hard-won success.
