Poor white pupils perform even worse than children who have English as a second language

 

Poor white schoolchildren perform even more poorly than pupils who have English as their second language, an analysis of exam results has found.

Pakistani, Bangladeshi and black youngsters all outperform their white English classmates from deprived backgrounds.

Black British pupils score the equivalent of one A* higher than a white child from the poorest 20 per cent of the population, an analysis of three million sets of results revealed. | Mail Online