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 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.
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The table illustrates the percentage of schoolchildren attending four different types of secondary school from 2000 to 2009. It is evident that
whereas
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the community centres of learning 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 academies dropped 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
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quarter- dropped
by half in the same period. As for the specialist colleges, the relatively small percentage of pupils attending
this
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type of educational institution (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,
on the other hand
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, only a small minority of 12% were educated in these
schools
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in 2000, and
this
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figure increased to well over half of all pupils during the following nine years.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words schools with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "decline" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increase" was used 2 times.
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