Researchers at the University of Warwick analysed Key Stage 3 test results at 14 and GCSE and GNVQ results at 16 for links between attainment and ethnicity. At 14 years old it was found that the scores of Bangladeshi, black African and black Caribbean pupils were all substantially below those for white British pupils.
However, by the age of 16 black African, Bangladeshi and Pakistani pupils had caught up, with scores only just below or the same as white British pupils. Only the results of black Caribbean pupils remained significantly lower than those of white British pupils. Pupils from an Indian background showed the biggest progress. At 14 they were marginally ahead of white British pupils, but by 16 they were substantially so.
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