DIVISION ADDS UP:

Faith schools top 'perfect' primaries league (Liz Lightfoot and Graeme Paton, 07/12/2006, Daily Telegraph)

The success of faith schools is underlined today in a league table of nearly 16,000 primaries published by the Government.

Church of England, Roman Catholic and Jewish schools make up 127 of the 209 primaries achieving "perfect" results, with all pupils reaching the expected standard for 11-year-olds in English, maths and science.

Currently, faith schools make up just a third of all schools in England. In 2005 they accounted for 44 per cent of the top primaries, but this year the proportion has risen to more than 60 per cent.

The results will fuel debate over Labour's support for faith-based education in the face of claims that the schools are culturally divisive and achieve the best results by selecting pupils.

Rather by pupils selecting to be educated.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 6, 2006 11:51 PM