The government’s proposal to lift the ban on establishing new grammar schools, set out in its consultation ‘Schools that work for everyone’, has reignited the debate on selective education.

In September 2016, the Education Policy Institute published new, rigorous data analysis to inform this important debate. The report, which is the most detailed impartial study of the data and evidence on selective schools for almost a decade, examines how grammars impact both pupil attainment and social mobility.