The Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) latest Education at a Glance research says the socio-economic composition of UK schools “poses significant challenges” for disadvantaged students and those with an immigrant background.
It reveals that 80 per cent of students from immigrant families attend schools with a high percentage of immigrant pupils. This is much higher than the OECD average of 67.6 per cent.
Three-quarters of immigrant students go to schools where large proportions of students speak a different language at home and nearly 80 per cent of immigrant students whose mothers did not receive a high level of education attend disadvantaged schools.
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