Yesterday’s provisional Key Stage 2 statistics showed a worrying increase in the disadvantage gap index since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The gap index reached its highest value since 2012. In fact, the 2011 figure is probably something of an anomaly: Just 19% of pupils that year were classified as disadvantaged (in all other years the figure has been between 29% and 32%).
The index is based on the difference between disadvantaged pupils and their peers in mean percentile ranks in reading and maths scaled scores combined.
