Claim: Disadvantaged children who go to grammar school progress twice as fast than their better-off peers.
Fact-check: Do poor grammar schools pupils make twice as much progress? - Full Fact
Verdict: that's the finding of one study, from 2004. the relatively few poor children who attend grammar schools seem to progress more than wealthier children, but those in the schools around them perform worse.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2017-02-24T00:00:00