The Education Policy Institute (EPI) Annual Report looks at the state of education in England, with a focus on the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers.
EPI’s 2025 Annual Report considers the attainment of vulnerable groups of students at the ages of 5, 11, 16 and by 18. The report analyses attainment gaps based on economic disadvantage, gender, ethnicity, English as an additional language (EAL), Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and geography.
You can access all sections of the 2025 EPI Annual Report, as well as our Executive Summary, using the links below.
- Foreword & executive summary
- Disadvantage
- EAL
- Ethnicity
- Gender
- Geographic disadvantage gaps
- SEND
- Methodology
Below, you can also find links to EPI’s previous reports on the disadvantage gap:
- 2024 EPI Annual Report
- 2023 EPI Annual Report
- Covid-19 and disadvantage gaps in England 2021
- Covid-19 and Disadvantage gaps in England 2020
- 2020 EPI Annual Report
- 2019 EPI Annual Report
- 2018 EPI Annual Report
- 2016 EPI Annual Report
Acknowledgements
This report has been kindly funded by the Sequoia Trust and Unbound Philanthropy.
