Research commissioned by youth charity The Challenge found that in 2016, a total of 40.6 per cent of secondary schools were either considered to be fully "ethnically segregated", because they did not reflect the ethnic make-up of their local area, or were "potentially contributing to segregation", because disproportionality in their intakes was having a knock-on effect on other schools.
For primary schools, the figure was found to be 26 per cent. Meanwhile, 29.6 per cent of primary schools and 27.6 per cent of secondary schools were found to be segregated by socio-economic status, based on proportions of children receiving free school meals (FSM).
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