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Actually, there's an example of this four doors away at the primary school my son's going to go to - it's got a fairly high intake of non-English as first language children (from all over the place, particularly East Africa) and apparently (according to the headmistress) they get to exactly the same level in a year (so much so that their results are indistinguishable from native English speakers).
The school's one of the top 200 in the country on last years results, which were admittedly exceptional. The key is probably that it's quite a well off area and a well-managed and resourced school.
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i do wonder if it would be a same result if you compared that to one of the bottom 200 in the country and it was in a deprived and rundown area.
i suspect it might be, as it seems its not the primary schools that are the most under funded in these area's, its the upper schools were you will find the massive cuture shock going from primary to secondary/upper.
my sons primary was great and the 2 teachers and helpers were far better than great, cant say the same about the current school even after several years there.