School choice ‘raises standards’

Published: 15 March, 2007

Faith schools which operate their own admissions have higher educational standards, research suggests.

An institute at the London School of Economics has published a study of school choice, using a sample of 200,000 pupils in England.

Faith schools - outside local authority control - were used by researchers to measure the impact of parental choice.

It says the extra "value added" for pupils in such schools is equivalent to 16 to 19 weeks of progress.

The research also attacks any assumptions about inner-city educational disadvantage – with findings that densely-populated, urban areas with many competing schools have higher standards.

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