HC Deb 15 December 1966 vol 738 cc129-30W
42. Mr. J. E. B. Hill

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what comparability studies are or have been made between the progress and improvement of the least able children in comprehensive and in secondary modern schools, respectively.

Mr. Crosland

It has not been possible to make systematic studies on these lines as until recently there have been very few truly comprehensive schools in this country; that is to say, even those schools called "comprehensive" have frequently been creamed of their top-ability group by the existence of selective schools in the same area.