INSPIRING TOMORROW’S LEADERS
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Why our demographic focus We currently focus on girls between the ages of 13–16 years old.
Building my confidence and meeting some inspirational women.
In 2015, for students in Reception to Year 11, eligibility for free school meals was 28% of Black and Black Mixed Race students, 14% of White students, and 16% of Asian students. In 2015/16, the national average for the percentage of A level students at the end of 16 to 18 study achieving 3 A grades or better at A level was 13%. 3 A grades or better at A level was achieved by 24% of Chinese students, 11% of Mixed students, 11% of White students, 11% of Other ethnic group students, 10% of Asian students and 5% of Black students. Black Caribbean pupils were permanently excluded at 3 times the rate of White British pupils.
In 2015/16, 79.8% of postgraduate entrants were White, 9.4% were Asian, 6.1% were Black, 3.1% had Mixed ethnicity and 1.6% were from the other ethnic group. Black Caribbean students were most likely to have no sustained education or employment after finishing key stage 5 (usually 18 year olds) (11%), followed by Mixed White and Black Caribbean (11%) and Mixed White and Black African students (10%). In 2015/16, there were 564,700 undergraduate entrants for whom ethnicity was known at UK higher education institutions: 77.1% were White, 10.3% were Asian, 7.4% were Black, 3.8% were from a Mixed ethnic background and 1.4% were from the Other ethnic group.
For the broad ethnic groups, Black and Mixed pupils were the most likely to be permanently excluded and to have a fixed term exclusion
Even more recent data shows these trends continue and Black students continue to be left behind.
