Revealed: How white working class pupils have among WORST outcomes of any group in England as data reveals they are failed at every stage

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Only around a third - 36 per cent - of white British pupils on free school meals get at least a grade 4 or above in English and maths.

Published: 00:02 GMT, 11 November 2026 | Updated: 00:26 GMT, 11 November 2026

White British pupils living in deprivation are outperformed at GCSE by every other ethnic group in similar circumstances, data reveals.

Only around a third – 36 per cent – of white British pupils on free school meals get at least a grade 4 or above in English and maths.

It means they are the worst performing group in the country after Irish and Roma travellers.

In contrast, 85 per cent of Chinese heritage pupils on free school meals achieve these grades – the highest-performing group in the country.

Meanwhile, among Indian and Bangladeshi pupils it is 68 per cent, among Black African pupils it is 62 per cent and among Black Caribbean it is 42 per cent.

The data is from the ongoing Independent Inquiry into White Working Class Educational Outcomes, which announced its second phase on Monday.

Among its other findings so far is that the rate of persistent absence for white working class pupils is 38 per cent, compared with 19 per cent overall.

Only 54 per cent of white working class pupils felt their school helped students to succeed, compared with 72 per cent of their peers.

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