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

The table illustrates the percentage of

school

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children attending four different types of secondary

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school

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schools

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from 2000 to 2009. It is evident that the specialist, grammar and voluntary-controlled

schools

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experienced declines in numbers of pupils,

whereas

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the community

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became the most important providers of secondary

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education during the same period.

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, the proportion in voluntary-controlled

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fell from just over half to only 20% or

one fifth

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from 2000 to 2009.

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, the relative number of children in grammar

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-- just under one quarter -- dropped by half in the same period. As for the specialist

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, the relatively small percentage of pupils attending

this

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type of

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(12%)

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fell,

although

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not significantly.

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while

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the other three types of

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declined in importance, the opposite was true in the case of community

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. In fact,

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only a small minority of 12% were educated in these

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in 2000,

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figure increased to well over half of all pupils during the following nine years.

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Jul 31, 2025

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