Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the educational attainment of white working class boys.

‘Working class’ is not a characteristic used by the department in monitoring pupil attainment. Disaggregated data at a national level for Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 4 is available for pupil characteristics by gender, disadvantage, free school meal eligibility, ethnicity, special educational need status and month of birth.

The latest Key Stage 2 data is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-2-attainment.

The latest Key Stage 4 data is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-4-performance.

The government has long-standing programmes designed to close the educational attainment gap and improve the education of all children and young people, whatever their background or circumstance.