Anders, Jake;
Green, Francis;
Henderson, Morag;
Henseke, Golo;
(2025)
Private school pupils’ performance in GCSEs (and IGCSEs).
Cambridge Journal of Education
, 54
(6)
pp. 795-813.
10.1080/0305764X.2024.2420611.
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Abstract
Using rich longitudinal data from the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), the authors compare the performance of private and state school pupils in age 16 national examinations (GCSEs) in England, where private schools are particularly well resourced by international standards. Performance among pupils attending private secondary schools is superior. However, this raw difference ignores the highly socially selective nature of the English private school system. Adjusting for socioeconomic background, the overall performance difference between the sectors disappears. The picture is also quite different when considering English, Maths, Science and Arts subjects separately. Implications are reviewed for debate surrounding the role of private schools and the emphasis of lower secondary state education on core subjects at the expense of Arts subjects.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Private school pupils’ performance in GCSEs (and IGCSEs) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0305764X.2024.2420611 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2024.2420611 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Private schools; academic attainment; socioeconomic status; arts subjects |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership > Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198515 |
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