Anyone know if the % of low income kids going to grammar is any different to historical levels?

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That's it really..... Following from the other thread aboout the sutton trust report it struck me that bright low income kids have probably always had a hard time getting into grammar. I just wondered if there was any difference in % now that tutoring is more widespread amongst those with more disposable income?

Note: my mother becoming a teacher was a big step up from her parents (a miner and a seamstress), but it wasn't what she wanted to do. And she could have done it, but was very much persuaded that she shouldn't.

The point is not that grammar schools = social mobility, but that the post-war period was remarkable for the (upward) social mobility in the population generally, whether people went to grammar schools or not. Now we're experiencing the effects of that period, and realising that mobility can go in any direction

I completely agree.

The difference now is that we seem to all expect that our standard of living should keep increasing in the same vein. That cannot happen but it may not mean that people will be "worse off".

i still need to do some digging on the figures but I can't believe that low socio income groups were anything other than a minority....