ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES
THAT BLACK CHILDREN ARE
GROWING UP IN TODAY
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ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES
THAT BLACK CHILDREN ARE
GROWING UP IN TODAY
We know that black children are twice as likely to grow up poor. On the flip side white children are 4x more likely to live in wealthy households than black children.
That disparity has huge consequences because we know that wealthy children over take poorer children in their development very early on in life.
So by the time they start school, the vocabulary of the poorest kids lags more than a year behind that of a wealthy child.
That's why poverty is the biggest determining factor in any child's life. Children growing up in poor households are at a disadvantage from day one.
Hover over the images to explore school attainment levels between black and white children
White people start at this midpoint and attain this level to the age of 14.
Black children start much lower.
And while Black-African pupils maintain their attainment, Black-Carribean pupil's academic progress declines dramatically up to the age of 14.
Between the ages of 14-16, black puplis start doing a lot better.
Both Black-African and Black-Carribbean pupils start seeing an increase in their attainment.
In fact by the time they sit their GCSE's Black-Africans surpass their white counterparts.
Professor Simon Burgess from the University of Bristol might just have the answer to explain this sudden rise of attainment levels when black people get to GCSEs.
He believes it because these exams are marked by independent examiners.
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