Dave Hill On London: Politics, Places, People

Dave Hill On London: Politics, Places, People

On London Extra: School report

How ethnicity, sex and place intersect in the capital. Plus a bunch of by-elections, the politics of waste, Aylesham Centre latest and more

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Jun 26, 2026
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London has become accustomed to topping national school attainment tables, but in some ways its success has been uneven. A new report by the Sutton Trust, a leading education charity, has looked at English national data to explore how pupils’ ethnicity, their sex and where they live intersect to influence how well they do at school. The London picture is complicated.

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