The EEF has launched a new interactive database of all secondary schools in England. Alison Kershaw for the Press Association reported on the new tool which was then published by the Daily Mail.

Schools will be able to compare their performance with other similar schools across the country as part of a new attempt to close the achievement gap between rich and poor pupils.

A database that groups secondary schools into “families” of 50 based on factors such as prior attainment, percentage of children on free school meals and the number speaking English as an additional language, has been launched by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), which said that the tool can be used by individual schools to learn from others that are like them.”

Read the full PA article on the Mail Online.

The Telegraph also featured the Families of Schools database in a piece by Josie Gurney-Read.