According to a new study by the Financial
Times newspaper, state schools in London are the best in England, after it
found out that pupils in these schools did better in five GCSEs including maths
and English than pupils from any other region.
The results are published after the Financial
Times analysed 3.5 million children’s exam results for the six years to 2011.
FT education correspondent Chris Cook said that when the figures were
adjusted to account for poverty London's performance was even stronger.
Analysis of the data from the National Pupil Database showed that
results improved during the six-year period. In 2004 London's exam results were
just fourth best out of nine English regions.
During the period the performance gap between richer and poorer pupils
narrowed in London - a change that was not mirrored elsewhere in England,
suggests the analysis.
The FT says that by 2011 pupils in some of the poorest areas of the
capital were outperforming children in more affluent areas.
For example the FT says: "A London child can expect to achieve one
better grade in three subjects than a similar child from a similar
neighbourhood in the south-eastern counties".
At their most extreme the figures suggest a child from the
top-performing borough, Westminster, would outperform a similar child from a
similar neighbourhood in Hull by two grades in every subject.
Commenting on the findings, Chris Husbands, director of London
University's Institute of Education said the improvement in London results made
the capital "not only the national but in many ways the international
school success story in the last 10 years."
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