The findings, which come from a research study led by Professor John Jerrim at the UCL Social Research Institute, have sparked calls for “targeted interventions in early secondary school to further boost social mobility opportunities”.
The research studied the social outcomes of state school pupils in the lowest and highest socio-economic groups who scored in the top 25% in key stage 2 tests.
It uses data from the National Pupil Database and the Police National Computer and analyses the outcomes for a quarter of a million high-achieving children born between 1990 and 2001. It finds that those in the lowest group were consistently more likely to be arrested and cautioned or sentenced by police.
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