Riordan, Sally; Jopling, Michael; Starr, Sean; (2021) Against the odds: achieving greater progress for secondary students facing socio-economic disadvantage. The Social Mobility Commission: London, UK.

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It has never been more important for all pupils, whatever their background, to be able to make the progress they deserve at school. And yet, in my job as Vice-Principal of a large secondary school, I constantly see how otherwise able pupils are held back by their circumstances of birth. It shouldn’t be this way. While the pupil premium has become a vital part of school funding as part of schools’ strategies to support social mobility, it is also true that most of the successes seen so far are in the primary sector. In this report we provide one of the most thorough investigations to date on the characteristics of secondary schools able to start closing the progress gap and achieve better outcomes for disadvantaged pupils. The blunt truth is that despite schools’ best efforts, this is staggeringly rare. Our research looked closely at the approaches which made a difference, through a survey of 285 schools across England, in-depth fieldwork, and analysis of national Progress 8 data.

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