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At private schools, 46.6 per cent of students achieved the top grades at GCSE - at least a 7 or an A - this year, which was down 6.5 percentage points on last year's 53.1 per cent.
Education sector leaders have raised concerns that pupils from disadvantaged communities are among the worst affected by a failure to consider the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on GCSE grading.
LONDON, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- This year's A-level results revealed widened regional inequalities in England when compared to the pre-COVID-19 pandemic year of 2019, with students from less advantaged backgrounds believed to have been more negatively impacted by factors such as the pandemic.
A-level results, awarded to pupils in the first cohort to return to standard grading after the pandemic, signal a “growing disparity” in academic achievement between pupils from poorer families and their more well off peers, experts say.
The attainment gap for the top grades between the north and south of England continues to be larger than it was before the pandemic, figures show.