8% eligible for free school meals in grammar school areas

3% of pupils that go to grammar schools in those areas are eligible for free school meals

(8% figure here User Posted Link 3% figure here User Posted Link )

the Sutton Trust hasn't swamped the media with anything, it was the Tories what announced their love of Grammar schools as official policy wishing - but the Sutton Trust carried out research into grammar schools - which is why you're seeing lots of articles mentioning them

but yes, the Tories probably have brought up Grammar schools as a way of deflecting from the incompetence that is their Department for Leaving Europe and the Department for International Trade

Posted By: Ralf Scrampton, Sep 9, 15:42:59