Social Class and Educational Opportunity

Abstract

It is obvious that the number of working-class boys entering the grammar schools each year has been increasing fast, and that there are more in the schools today than ever before. Nevertheless, the probability that a working-class boy will get to a grammar school is not strikingly different from what it was before 1945, and there are still marked differences in the chances which boys of different social origins have of obtaining a place. Of those working-class boys who reached the age of 11 in the years 1931-41 rather less than 10 per cent entered selective secondary schools. In 1953 the proportion of working-class boys admitted to grammar schools was 12 per cent in Middles-brough and 14 per cent in South West Hertfordshire.

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