Disadvantaged primary school pupils were on average 2.2 months behind in maths during the autumn term of the 2021/22 school year, compared with 1.8 months for their non-disadvantaged classmates, research has found. This represents a narrowing of the gap since the previous summer term, researchers say.
In reading, the attainment gap has widened over the same period. In the autumn term of 2021/22 disadvantaged primary school pupils were 1.4 months behind in their reading, compared with 0.5 months for their more affluent peers, which is worse than the previous year.
The attainment gap in readin between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged secondary school pupils has also widened since the summer term last year, found the research by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) and Renaissance for the Department for Education.
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