Social Class Educational Attainment Outside Factors: Free School Meal Recipients

Question 1

How is social class measured within education?

Answer 1

Whether students have FSM or not

Question 2

What does FSM mean?

Answer 2

Free School Meals

Question 3

What does DfE data show about the percentage of all FSM eligible pupils going on to higher level education?

Answer 3

Only 26% of them did

Question 4

According to DfE, what percentage of white males who received FSM went on to higher education?

Answer 4

16%

Question 5

Which social class have the lowest grades in Education? What gender and ethnicity are they also?

Answer 5

White Working Class Males

Question 6

What was the average Attainment 8 score for someone eligible for FSM?

Answer 6

36.9

Question 7

What was the average Attainment 8 score for someone not eligible for FSM?

Answer 7

51.4

Question 8

What was found with FSM eligible students in every ethnic group with their attainment 8 scores?

Answer 8

All ethnic groups had lower scores than those not eligible

Question 9

What can be said about if meritocracy exists in education as shown with DfE data? Why?

Answer 9

Meritocracy in education does not exist because there are not equal opportunities

Question 10

Name the 3 Outside School factors affecting Educational Attainment

Answer 10

Cultural Deprivation, Material Deprivation, Cultural Capital