The table gives information about the percentage of students' attendance in four groups of secondary schools between 2000 and 2009.

The table gives information about the

percentage

of students'

attendance

in four groups of secondary

schools

between 2000 and 2009.

Overall

,

it is clear that

while

the figure for students attending Specialist

Schools

, Grammar

Schools

and Voluntary-controlled

Schools

witnessed a decrease, the opposite was true for those

Community

Schools

.

In addition

, the lowest

percentage

of school children's

attendance

was seen in

Community

Schools

in 2000 before having the highest

percentage

in 2009. In the beginning, the proportion of students who enrolled in Specialist

Schools

started at the lowest point- 12%, which was less than half of the Grammar’s

percentage

. After 9 years, the figure for

student’s

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attendance

in Grammar

Schools

declined significantly to 12%

while

Specialist

Schools’s

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percentage

just witnessed a slight drop of 2%.

Moreover

, starting in 2000, Voluntary-controlled

Schools

had the highest

percentage

with 52% compared to 12% in the proportion of

junior’s

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attendance

of

Community

Schools

. Over the 9-year period, the

percentage

of juniors going to

Community

Schools

increased dramatically before reaching the peak at 58%.

By contrast

, Voluntary-controlled

Schools

saw a considerable drop of 14% and 18% in 2005 and 2009 respectively.