These are among a raft of findings in a new data analysis published by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) think-tank.
The government is currently consulting over plans to increase selection by relaxing the restrictions on new or expanding selective schools and allowing existing non-selective schools to become selective “in the right circumstances”.
Minister for school standards, Nick Gibb, said last week that the proposal was designed to “turbo boost social mobility”.
However, the EPI report finds that only 2.5 per cent of grammar school pupils are eligible for free school meals (FSM) compared to an average of 13.2 per cent in all state-funded schools.
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