Comments on: GCSE Scores and Poverty in London https://mappinglondon.co.uk/2011/gcse-scores-and-poverty-in-london/ Highlighting the best London maps Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:37:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: M https://mappinglondon.co.uk/2011/gcse-scores-and-poverty-in-london/#comment-142857 Mon, 07 Jul 2014 13:35:03 +0000 http://mappinglondon.blogweb.casa.ucl.ac.uk/?p=521#comment-142857 Yes, I totally agree with your comments. These results are good, but they don’t take into account the entire population. For example I live in the City of Westminster and commute to a school in Redbridge. As the map shows Redbridge out performs Westminster-mainly because of the number of grammar schools (there are also good state schools aswell).

]]> By: Slash and burn. Identifying your hell-no! areas. | family moving to london https://mappinglondon.co.uk/2011/gcse-scores-and-poverty-in-london/#comment-32199 Thu, 28 Nov 2013 13:47:00 +0000 http://mappinglondon.blogweb.casa.ucl.ac.uk/?p=521#comment-32199 […] One reason is the correlation between low school test scores at age 15 and poverty – see here: http://mappinglondon.co.uk/2011/gcse-scores-and-poverty-in-london/. Many exceptions, of […]

]]> By: James Cheshire https://mappinglondon.co.uk/2011/gcse-scores-and-poverty-in-london/#comment-42 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:45:42 +0000 http://mappinglondon.blogweb.casa.ucl.ac.uk/?p=521#comment-42 In reply to Thomas Wood.

Thanks Thomas- I expect you are right. If I can get hold of more detailed data I will update the post. Thanks for the comment!

]]> By: Thomas Wood https://mappinglondon.co.uk/2011/gcse-scores-and-poverty-in-london/#comment-41 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:32:06 +0000 http://mappinglondon.blogweb.casa.ucl.ac.uk/?p=521#comment-41 I would argue that this analysis is not all that it seems, it shows the location of the results of the schools, but not where the pupils are from.
For example, many of the pupils at my school in Sutton were from other London boroughs, Croydon, Merton, even as far as Lambeth, Wandsworth, Southwark.
They were driven to my school because of a lack of ‘good’ schools in their own areas, and the reputation that the many grammar schools that exist in Sutton have.

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