Oriel High School has achieved some notable success with its Pupil Premium strategy. Helen Everitt and Ryan Sallows reflect on some of the key tenets of the school’s work

Oriel High School in Crawley, West Sussex, opened in September 2004 after a campaign from parents and the community. It currently has just under 1,400 students on its 11 to 18 roll, 13 per cent of whom are Pupil Premium funded; 25 per cent of its 11 to 16 students were identified as Catch-Up Premium students on entry in year 7 in maths and/or English.

Engaging with the demographics of our Pupil Premium cohort has become key to understanding the challenges we face when helping these students to make as much progress as their non-Pupil Premium peers.

We already know that, statistically, students in the South East region, schools with a similar size of Pupil Premium cohort as ours, and schools with high proportions of White British males tend to do less well when trying to narrow the gap.

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