A study undertaken by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) and Renaissance for the Department for Education showed that the severity of lost learning in the spring and summer terms in 2021 was greater for disadvantaged pupils compared with the average for all children.
At a national level, by the end of the spring term, learning losses for disadvantaged pupils were 4.2 months in maths and 2.7 months in reading for pupils in primary school compared with 3.4 months in maths and 2.2 months in reading for all pupils in primary school.
By the summer term, learning losses for disadvantaged pupils recovered to 2.6 months in maths and 1.2 months in reading for pupils in primary school, still slightly higher than the average of 2.2 months in maths and 0.9 months in reading for primary pupils.
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