According to the latest analyse carried out by the Department of Education children of immigrants are ahead of their British counterparts in GCSE maths and English.
The analysis found that 43.2 per cent of native English speakers gained grades 9-5 in English and maths in 2019, compared to 43.8 per cent their peers who speak English as an additional language.
The figures also show that white pupils are the least likely to enter for the eBacc subjects when sitting GCSEs and that just 37.5 per cent of white teenagers enter for the award, which is the lowest proportion out of all other ethnic groups.
The EBacc was established in 2010 by the former education secretary Michael Gove in a bid to reverse the "dumbing down" of GCSEs.
In order to obtain the award, students must obtain five A*-C or numeric grades 9-4 in maths, English, science, history or geography, and a modern language.
Chinese students were the most likely to obtain Ebacc, with 61.6 per cent getting the award.
Meanwhile, 50.6 per cent of Asian students, 46.5 per cent of black students and 44.3 per cent of mixed race students obtained the award.
The gap between disadvantaged pupils and wealthier classmates increased for the second year running. In 2019 it was 0.4 percentage points higher than the year before.
The official government figures, based on performance in last year’s GCSEs, showed that multi-academy trusts performed worse than other mainstream state schools in the measure of pupils’ progress.
The data which was published last Thursday followed a delay of two weeks as officials admitted that a “significant number” of results were missing from their original dataset.
As reported iin the Daily Telegraph headteachers accused ministers of “eroding” their confidence, adding that this was the second major data issue to have occurred in the past six months.
Duncan Baldwin of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said: “These performance tables come after a series of problems dating back to September in collecting and processing qualification data, the most recent of which resulted in a two-week delay to the information published today.”
