NEW figures on the poverty-related attainment gap in Scotland’s schools show a real recovery from the pandemic, the Education Secretary has said, although they remain above pre-Covid levels.
The Scottish Government has made reducing the gap between the most and least well-off pupils its key education mission, logging achievements in Curriculum for Excellence in primaries one, four and seven and S3.
The curriculum breaks achievement down into four levels, spread across literacy, numeracy, listening and talking, writing and reading, between the start of primary school and S3. In all of these indicators, the poverty-related gap for S3 pupils earning the third level or better has widened since 2018-19, the last available figures for secondary schools.
