Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications inEngland. This paper seeks to build … correlation with unobserved school and neighborhood quality, i.e. the role ofsorting into schools and neighborhoods of different … quality. We suggest a method ofcalculating school quality (how effective a school is in helping its pupils to avoid …

Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower indisadvantaged areas than others and much recent … ways that are not reflected by the usualindicators of disadvantage. School managers respond by adapting … quality. The paper argues thatbecause school processes and quality are affected by context, schoolimprovement in disadvantaged …

affected the quality of school achievements? The papersuggests there have been significant improvements not just on averagebut …