According to the Education Policy Institute’s (EPI) annual State of Education report, the disadvantage gap has continued to narrow in primary school, but has now stopped closing in the early years and by the end of secondary school at Key Stage 4.
It measures the disadvantage gap by comparing the attainment of pupils eligible for the pupil premium funding due to deprivation and their peers.
The EPI’s analysis covers the period from 2011 to 2018. For the early years, it starts in 2013 to coincide with the introduction of the current Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results. Over this period, it finds the disadvantage gap has closed across the early years, primary and secondary school. The largest closing of the gap is in the early years and primary.
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