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Date: September 27th, 2026 11:01 AM Author: pea-brained cerise stag film organic girlfriend And Jeets have DOUBLED. Noticing a pattern. These are UK Grammar Schools which have select admissions based on Merit. Birdshits cannot COMPETE
Less than half of grammar school pupils are white British Why has the number fallen from 66 to 44 per cent? Head teachers have a few explanations Collage of a frustrated student in a classroom setting with graphic elements. Louise Eccles Yennah Smart Louise Eccles, Education Editor, and Yennah Smart, Data Journalist Saturday September 12 2026, 8.45pm BST, The Sunday Times Listen • 7:00 min Share
Fewer white British families are applying to grammar schools for fear their child would need intense tutoring to gain a place and be “hot-housed” when they are there, according to a head teacher. Chris Evans, head of Reading School in Berkshire, said such applications to his grammar had “fallen spectacularly”. A decade ago the school was 49 per cent white British and now it is 13 per cent, according to figures based on data sent by schools for an annual spring census. This trend is reflected nationally. The white British cohort at grammar schools has fallen from 66 per cent to 44 per cent in a decade. Other grammar schools cited nuanced reasons for the shift, including high aspirations among first and second-generation immigrants, and variations between ethnicities in their willingness to relocate for a school or accept long commutes. Many children travel by train or bus for an hour, sometimes more, to get to a grammar school, rather than making the shorter journey to their local school. The most significant drops in white British pupils are in Kent, Greater Manchester, Essex, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire and West Yorkshire. Changing share of pupils classified as white British Search by grammar school name Search in table Page 1 of 17 Table with 5 columns and 163 rows of data. Currently displaying rows 1 to 10. (column headers with buttons are sortable) School Gender 2016 2025-26 Change Colchester County High School for Girls Colchester Girls 69% 24% −45% Chatham Grammar School for Girls Chatham Girls 78% 33% −45% Dartford Grammar School for Girls Dartford Girls 52% 7% −45% Pate's Grammar School Cheltenham Mixed 75% 34% −41% Lawrence Sheriff School Rugby Boys 74% 34% −40% Rugby High School for Girls Rugby Girls 75% 36% −39% King Edward VI School Stratford-upon-Avon Boys 80% 42% −38% The Crossley Heath School Halifax Mixed 67% 30% −37% Invicta Grammar School Maidstone Girls 80% 43% −37% Altrincham Grammar School for Girls Bowdon Girls 58% 20% −37% Table: The Times and The Sunday Times One of the biggest falls is at Pate’s Grammar School in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, where the rate has dropped from 75 per cent to 34 per cent over the decade. Its Indian pupil population rose from 8 per cent to 30 per cent and Chinese students from 0.3 per cent to 5 per cent. The Sunday Times Parent Power league table ranks Pate’s among the best state secondaries in the country. Top stories 1 Cruise, land and rail: Five must-book Times Holidays packages Promoted content James Richardson, the head teacher, said: “Our pupils do ten GCSEs as standard. We still do three sciences at GCSEs for everyone. We have a very large language department including Mandarin, and strong co-curricular music which I think is very popular with certain ethnicities. I think the perception that perhaps only grammar schools offer that is a driving factor.” Word of mouth has also played a part in ethnic-minority families moving to the area and children commuting in, Richardson believes. “We know that our Indian community is incredibly strong — we have the largest Diwali celebration in the southwest at Pate’s every November — and when the families talk to each other, they share their successes and perceptions of the school and its reputation grows.” Ethnicity of under-18s England and Wales Ethnic groups 2011 share 2021 share White British 75% 68% Asian 10% 12% Mixed 5% 7% Other white 4% 6% Black/African/Caribbean 5% 5% Other groups 1% 3% Chart: The Times and The Sunday Times•Source: 2021 Census In the past decade each of the ten largest ethnic minorities have increased their representation at grammar schools, including Indian, Pakistani, African and Chinese people, according to Department for Education figures. The biggest rise is among Indian children, from 8 per cent to 15 per cent of pupils. At Dartford Grammar School for Girls, in Kent, the proportion of white students has fallen from 52 per cent to 7 per cent. The African pupil population rose from 14 per cent to 37 per cent, the Indian from 7 to 16 per cent and the Chinese from 1 per cent to 4 per cent. Sharon Pritchard, the head teacher, said it was “difficult to know precisely why”. While the make-up of the local population had changed “to some degree”, she said, it did not explain such a large shift. She said the school’s increasing academic success had encouraged applications from further afield. Almost 80 per cent of its GCSE grades this year were 7 to 9 (A/A*). “An important number of students travel a considerable distance to attend the school,” Pritchard said. Reading School said black families were also underrepresented, accounting for about 3 per cent of pupils compared to about 11 per cent of the local population. It has developed outreach programmes with neighbouring schools, partly to address misconceptions about grammar school education. This includes the perception that grammar schools do not prioritise sport or the arts, which Evans believes is deterring some white British families. He thinks white British families, in particular, may have been put off by the idea of “a high-stakes grammar school test that needed years of maths and English tutoring”, which particularly influences those from poorer areas. Man in a blue suit and striped tie smiling in front of a wood-paneled wall. Chris Evans, head of Reading School Evans said: “Our qualitative analysis, in conversation with primary school head teachers and parents, suggested that parents who weren’t willing to put in hours and hours of tutoring were being dissuaded from applying, believing that their child didn’t stand a chance of getting in.” Reading’s outreach and catchment work has made an impact. This year 15 per cent of applicants were white British, compared with 7 per cent in 2024. Reading has named local feeder schools, which will account for up to half of offers. It has also altered the 11-plus test to a less predictable, “tutor-proof” model where the subjects change each year. Evans said: “I don’t think the ethnicity of the children in the grammar school matters. If you have one school that has more white children, another school that has more black children, another has more Indian children, I don’t think that matters at all. “But what matters is whether the grammar school reaches its local community and indeed whether all schools serve their local community. If the grammar school is becoming more homogenous, then the local comprehensive school is probably also becoming more homogenous too.” Pupils at grammar schools by ethnicity Ethnicity 2016 2026 White British 66% 44% Indian 8% 15% Other Asian background 4% 6% Pakistani 4% 5% Other white background 3% 6% African 3% 6% Other mixed background 2% 4% White and Asian 2% 3% Chinese 2% 3% Other ethnic group 1% 2% Bangladeshi 1% 2% *Comparing school years 2015-16 to 2025-26. Chart: The Times and The Sunday Times•Source: Department for Education Lucinda Platt, professor of social policy and sociology at the London School of Economics, said: “Those who emigrate are much more likely to be degree holders now, partly because of immigration restrictions [on visas]. Plus, if you emigrate to another country, you are often doing so to have better life chances and success — if not for yourself then for your children — so their educational attainment is a big part of that.” The prevalence of tutoring for the 11-plus has been cited as one of the barriers to white working-class children getting into grammar schools. The government-backed Covid Social Mobility and Opportunities Study found that, among pupils on free school meals, 26 per cent of black Africans and 24 per cent of Bangladeshis received tutoring, falling to 5 per cent for white Britons. The average cost of a tutor for the 11-plus exam is £37.50 per hour, according to Tutorful, a website that connects parents and tutors. Many charge far more, up to about £100 an hour.
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