Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 March 2020
Pupils of religious foundation schools in England show superior educational performance over general (Local Education Authority) schools, the advantage having been estimated in previous studies at learning about a tenth faster for the average pupil by the age of leaving primary schooling (age 11+). In this study access to individual pupils' scores at SAT tests shows that the advantage of religious foundation schools is particularly great for lower-attaining pupils, with only the lowest tenth of those in religious schools attaining the scores of the lowest third in general schools.
Thanks are due to the Education Department of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, without whose great help on statistics this note could not have been prepared, and to NIESR for research facilities.