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

The table illustrates the amount of students attending four different types of secondary school from 2000 to 2009.

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, there have been a lot of structural changes over the period, most significantly being, voluntary-controlled

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’ place as the main educators was taken by community ones. At the beginning of the given period, voluntary-controlled

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educated over half of all the students, which is double the amount of grammar

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second place out of all the school types.

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, through the

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the popularity shrank to 20% and their place was taken by community

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, which grew gradually through the

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reaching almost 58 per cent in 2009. In terms of specialist

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and grammar ones, their numbers experienced changes as well. When comes to grammar

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, over the

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their popularity decreased by half, starting from 24% in 2000 to 12% in 2009, respectively. To compare, specialist

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educated

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somewhat similar amount of students in all

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nine

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decreasing every year by one per cent.