Does that mean that OFSTED is only interested in comparative performance
between schools? And not in serious investigation of the relationship
between performance and proportion of pupils on income support??
And is not statistically outrageous to have one class interval with a range
of 65% for what should be a category of special concern??
Teachers and educational researchers who have to put up with this
statistical ineptitude and bias emanating from Ofsted have my deepest
sympathy.
Ray Thomas, Social Sciences, Open University
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Free meals in school are only available to those families on Income
Support. The distribution of equal numbers of schools according to
Free School Meals that you gave looks about right, with very high
numbers of those on Income Support concentrated in a minority of
areas, but I don't know how the Perfomance and Assessment statistics
are constructed.
> ..........there are six bands according to
> the proportion of pupils receiving free school meals - up to 5%,
> 5-9%, 9-13%, 13-21%, 21-35%, and more than 35%.
>
> Is this choice of class intervals intended to produce bands
> containing an approximately equal number of schools? If so does
> not this represent an extraordinary inequality in the distribution
> of pupils receiving school meals?
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