The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-10-14.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children were (a) White British, (b) White British eligible for free school meals, (c) White Non-British, (d) White Non-British eligible for free school meals, (e) Black, (f) Black eligible for free school meals, (g) Indian, (h) Indian eligible for free school meals, (i) Chinese ethnicity, (j) Chinese ethnicity eligible for free school meals, (k) other Asian, (l) other Asia eligible for free school meals, (m) any other ethnicity and (n) any other ethnicity eligible for free school meals received a place in a grammar school in each of the last five years.
Nick Gibb
Proportion of Year 7 pupils in Selective schools by selected ethnic groups, gender & FSM eligibility
|
All pupils |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
|
White British |
3.7% |
3.7% |
3.9% |
3.9% |
3.8% |
|
White British – Eligible for FSM |
0.6% |
0.5% |
0.6% |
0.6% |
0.7% |
|
White non-British |
3.1% |
3.1% |
3.4% |
3.2% |
3.3% |
|
White non-British – Eligible for FSM |
0.2% |
0.5% |
0.5% |
0.5% |
0.9% |
|
Black |
2.5% |
2.9% |
3.2% |
3.1% |
3.6% |
|
Black – Eligible for FSM |
0.3% |
0.4% |
0.6% |
0.5% |
0.8% |
|
Indian |
12.6% |
12.9% |
14.0% |
15.5% |
15.7% |
|
Indian – Eligible for FSM |
2.5% |
2.1% |
2.2% |
3.0% |
2.8% |
|
Chinese |
19.4% |
19.3% |
21.0% |
18.0% |
18.2% |
|
Chinese – Eligible for FSM |
10.2% |
9.0% |
12.0% |
8.8% |
5.2% |
|
Other Asian |
5.5% |
5.6% |
5.9% |
5.9% |
6.0% |
|
Other Asian – Eligible for FSM |
1.6% |
1.1% |
1.4% |
1.4% |
1.5% |