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The table shows the Proportions of Pupils Attending Four Secondary School Types Between Between 2000 and 2009. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The table shows the Proportions of Pupils Attending Four Secondary School Types Between Between 2000 and 2009. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
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The table illustrates the percentage of school children attending four different types of secondary school from 2000 to 2009. It is evident that
whereas
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 the community
schools
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 experienced a marked increase in the proportion of those attending their institutions over the period, the others saw a corresponding decline.
To begin
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, the percentage of pupils in voluntary-controlled
schools
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 fell from just over half to only 20% or one-fifth from 2000 to 2009.
Similarly
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, the relative number of children in grammar
schools
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 - just under one quarter - dropped by half in the same period. As for the specialist
schools
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, the relatively small percentage of pupils attending
this
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 type of school (12%)
also
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 fell,
although
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 not significantly.
However
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,
while
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 the other three types of
schools
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 declined in importance, the opposite was true in the case of community
schools
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. In fact,
whereas
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 only a small minority of 12% were educated in these
schools
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 in 2000,
this
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 figure increased to well over half of all pupils during the following nine years.

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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "whereas".
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Vocabulary: Replace the words schools with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "decline" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "fell" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "increase" was used 2 times.
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