Sentence examples for higher than average proportion from inspiring English sources

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Very few have been brought up in strongly religious households, and there is a higher than average proportion of converts.

Now it is recognised that many other groups of people are also likely to have a higher than average proportion of HIV infection.

They display strong entrepreneurial qualities compared with other migrant groups, with a higher than average proportion engaging in small and medium business enterprises".

It has a higher than average proportion of children eligible for free school meals, while around 10% of pupils are from refugee or asylum-seeking families.

The school has a higher than average proportion of children with special educational needs, and a 50% A*-C GCSE pass rate including English and maths, slightly below the national average but it is improving and Goddard points out they have beaten the local authority's targets every year for the last five years.

There are also a higher-than-average proportion of Asian homeowners in the free school catchment areas – 5.3% – compared with 1% in England as a whole.

We know that a higher-than-average proportion of the population with intellectual or psycho-social disability have prison as their accommodation option.

This is compared to a higher-than-average proportion in a number of other locations in the UK, such as Lancaster (37%), Dorchester (37%) and Kirkwall in Scotland (39%).

Primary schools will similarly be deemed to be coasting if, over a three-year period, fewer than 85% of 11-year-olds achieve a level 4 in reading, writing and maths, and a higher-than-average proportion of pupils fail to make expected progress.

The Ofsted report shows that far from using emotional literacy to skimp on costs, Southampton still delegates a higher-than-average proportion of money to fund its special needs and outreach programmes.As Ms Nicholson at Mason Moor school acknowledges, emotional literacy "does not work with the extremes of children's behaviour".