Saturday 18 October 2008

I was reading about the marked difference in Bradford results depending on where you live...

Apparently a Freedom of Information request has revealed that last year only 3.3% of students living in Holme Wood in the south of Bradford achieved 'the expected benchmark of five good GCSEs including English and mathematics'. However if you lived in Ilkley, on the other side of Bradford, 86.3% of students achieved 'the expected benchmark of five good GCSEs including English and mathematics'.

Raising aspiration, expectation and performance is a hugely complex issue and probably the greatest challenge facing us in education today linked to anti-social behaviour, teenage pregnancy, persistent absence, knife-crime. WE are doing great things, but are we doing enough.

It would be interesting to know the highs and lows of living here in Leeds?
Chris

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