BBC News, on UK Politics, 13 November 2026
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Read the original article on bbc.co.uk (opens in a new tab)The BBC profiles Hetton Academy in Sunderland, a non-selective school with mostly white, working-class pupils and many on free school meals that reached an 80% pass rate in maths and English. It sets the school's story against national data and the views of academics and the Morris inquiry. Nothing in it misleads the reader: the figures carry their base and period, and the regional comparison comes with its own qualification.
“only 339 non-selective schools in England that hit an average 80% pass rate in maths and English for the three years to 2025, out of around 3,000 that published the relevant data”
The BBC gives the base, the period and the comparison for its figure, so the reader can judge how rare the result is.
“Schools that hit the average 80% pass rate have fewer children from the lowest-income families than average, and are less likely to be in deprived areas.”
The BBC sets one school's success against the wider data on income and deprivation, so a single case is not passed off as the general picture.
“(On other measures of GCSE performance, the North East ranked more favourably.)”
After reporting that the North East came bottom on top grades, the BBC adds the qualification that other measures rank the region better, so the figure does not mislead.
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