- Children from poor families are 16.5 percentage points less likely to attend a good school. This is equivalent to about half the chance of non-poor families.
- Children from poor families face a reduced chance of being assigned to a good school in large part because of where they live.
- Children from poor families do go to lower scoring schools on average. This effect is around 1.5 percentage points, around 9% of the standard error of school quality in this dataset.
- Most of the reason for poor children’s lower chances is accounted for by where they live, but not all of it.
- In a typical LEA in England a child from a poor family is half as likely to attend a good secondary school as a non-poor child.