Claim: The UUP's manifesto for the 2022 Assembly election says there is a "persistent and unacceptable attainment gap at GCSE between Protestant and Catholic pupils entitled to free school meals and those not entitled to free school meals."
Fact-check: Are children entitled to free school meals 29 percentage points less likely than their peers to get good GCSEs? Has this attainment gap barely closed in over a decade? - FactCheckNI
Verdict: this is accurate. data shows that in 2018-2019, 49.5% of fsme school leavers had at least five gcses including english and maths, compared to 78.5% of their non-fsme peers - a gap of 29 percentage points. in 2005-2006 the gap was 32.1pp, a difference of 3.1pp.
Organisation: FactCheckNI
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2022-04-21T00:00:00