Educational attainment
Only 41% of young people on free school meals pass English and maths GCSEs, compared with 69% of all other pupils. With the right support, we can make life after school fairer.
Read MoreImpetus helped us crystallise how our group of highly committed schools can best improve outcomes for our students.
– Sir Nick Weller, CEO, Dixons Academies Trust
The need: In 2018 only 56% of Bradford pupils got a grade 4 (equivalent to a 'C' GCSE) or above in English and maths, compared with 64% nationally. 36% of Bradford pupils are from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Our charity partner: Dixons runs 13 mainstream schools in Bradford and Leeds. They open new schools and take on and improve existing schools, to give children a better education and the qualifications they need.
Our impact: We’ve helped Dixons make sure that teaching and learning across their schools is excellent. The Department for Education’s 2018 league tables showed Dixons to be the second-best performing trust in the country in terms of progress for secondary school pupils.
Only 41% of young people on free school meals pass English and maths GCSEs, compared with 69% of all other pupils. With the right support, we can make life after school fairer.
Read More2016 – not all bad! What’s the first word you think of when you look back on 2016? I can hazard a guess – ‘uncertain’, ‘tumultuous’, maybe ‘historic’, maybe something less polite! But for me the word is ‘inspiring’.
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