The table shows the Proportions of Pupils Attending Four Secondary School Types Between 2000 and 2009.

The table illustrates the percentages of students studying at four different secondary

schools

from 2000 to 2009. It is evident that

whereas

the community

schools

experienced a significant increase in the proportion of school children attending their institutions over the period, the others encountered a corresponding decline. In detail, the percentage of pupils in voluntary-controlled

schools

decreased noticeably from slightly over half to well over one-third in 2005 and eventually one-fifth in 2009.

Similarly

,

although

nearly one-quarter of the pupils attended grammar

schools

in 2000, the proportion dropped by half in nine years. Meanwhile, only a few

percent

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of students went to specialist

schools

also

fell by 2

percent

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during the same period.

However

,

while

other types of

schools

declined the proportion of attending students, community

schools

were in the opposite trend. Even though just over one-fifth of children studied in these

schools

in 2000, the figure went up remarkably to over half of all pupils during the following nine years.