The Education Policy Institute's (EPI) annual report on the state of education finds that disadvantaged pupils in England are 18.1 months of learning behind their wealthier peers by the time they finish their GCSEs – the same gap as five years ago.
The gap at primary school is now 9.3 months, having increased for the first time since 2007 up from 9.2 months in 2018 to 9.3 a year later, the analysis of government figures for 2019 shows.
Researchers put the widening of the gap due to rising levels of persistent poverty even before the Covid-19 pandemic.
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