"Academies are under-performing compared with other state schools, raising doubts over the reform programme being pursued by the education secretary, according to a new analysis of government figures.
Ministers are encouraging schools to remove themselves from local authority control to become academies, while failing schools are having that status imposed upon them. Michael Gove, who is pushing through the programme, has accused critics of being "happy with failure". However, a new analysis of Department for Education figures shows that, while 60% of pupils in non-academy schools attained five A* to C gradeGCSEs last year, only 47% did so in the 249 sponsored academies.
The progress that pupils achieve over time is also lower in academies than in non-academy schools, with 65% of those in academies making expected progress in English in the year leading to the 2011 GCSE examinations, compared with 74% in the community, foundation and voluntary-aided schools that make up the rest of the state sector."
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