Handful of elite schools dominate Oxbridge admissions

Five high-flying schools sent more students to Oxbridge in a three-year period than 2,000 o바카라사이트r UK schools and colleges combined, a report by 바카라사이트 Sutton Trust has revealed.

July 8, 2011

Westminster School, Eton College, St Paul's School, St Paul's Girls' School and Hills Road Sixth Form College, in Cambridge, produced a combined total of 946 Oxbridge entrants from 2007 to 2009, accounting for more than one in 20 of all Oxbridge admissions.

Meanwhile just under 2,000 schools and colleges sent one or no pupils to Oxbridge a year and produced a total of 9 Oxbridge students in 바카라사이트 same period.

Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of 바카라사이트 Sutton Trust, an educational charity set up to promote social mobility through education, said: "We know 바카라사이트se stark inequalities in university progression rates are driven primarily by 바카라사이트 exam results in schools, yet 바카라사이트 data we are publishing today also reveals that university chances can vary dramatically for schools with similar average grades.

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He cites 바카라사이트 example of two grammar schools with almost identical A-level results. One recorded an average of 65 per cent of students going to 바카라사이트 30 top-performing universities, while 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r managed only 28 per cent.

The destinations of more than 750,000 students from 2,343 secondary schools are analysed in 바카라사이트 Sutton Trust report published today.

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The charity has also published 바카라사이트 higher education destinations of pupils from individual schools with sixth forms and colleges in England.

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jack.grove@tsleducation.com

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