Shocking stats - one quarter of one percent!

The Daily Mail does have a history of stirring up "Middle England" and this isn't the sort of story that I would expect them to run normally but it is relevant and pretty shocking.

Of the 75,000 children on free school meals each year, just 189 of them went onto get 3 A levels at grade A.  That is one quarter of 1%.  OK, Daily Mail style meant they compared this with the 67% at a top indepdndent school that got 3 A grades but in my view the real story is the shocking statistic of one quarter of one percent.

"The system fails children from poorer backgrounds" - a very fair quote I would say given the results.