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The Value of School Locations
Author(s) -
Conduit E.,
Brookes R.,
Bramley G.,
Fletcher C. L.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/0141192960220204
Subject(s) - overcrowding , townsend , school certificate , variance (accounting) , unemployment , index (typography) , unemployment rate , geography , certificate , statistics , demography , demographic economics , vocational education , socioeconomics , mathematics education , sociology , psychology , mathematics , economic growth , economics , pedagogy , physics , accounting , algorithm , quantum mechanics , world wide web , computer science
A method for assessing schools’ performance in relation to socio‐economic indicators of their location is described. A substantial proportion of the variance in General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) results is accounted for by indicators such as the percentage of owner‐occupied houses in the area around the school. The addition of car ownership, unemployment, and overcrowding to give a composite normalised score known as the Townsend Index accounted for more than half the variance in the GCSE results of two West Midlands local education authorities (LEAs). The results are critically discussed.