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Poor white boys 'more likely to struggle at primary school'

Half of poor white boys leave primary school without a decent grasp of English and mathematics, damning figures show.

White British boys from the most deprived families perform worse at the age of 11 than any other group, it was disclosed.

They are around 50 per cent less likely to start secondary education with an acceptable standard of the three-Rs than other pupils.

Poor children from black African, black Caribbean, Chinese, Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani families all performed better than their white British classmates, figures show.

This means thousands of children struggle to write complex sentences, spell accurately or use basic percentages and fractions after seven years of education.

The disclosure – in figures published by the Department for Education – prompted claims that Labour had “let down” young people from the most deprived backgrounds.

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