The attainment gap between Bristnall and the other local schools closed during the late 1970s when all the local secondary schools became comprehensive schools.

The attainment gap between looked-after children and others at GCSE in day schools was 49.4% last year.

Understand that teachers can do only so much to close the attainment gap for as long as the lives of so many children are blighted by poverty and disadvantage.

Since becoming Education Secretary, Gove has made narrowing the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils his cause celebre.

Overall performance went up, but the attainment gap didn't close.

We all want to close the attainment gap, stretch the brightest or show that we value creativity.

Is addressing the attainment gap between poor children and their better off counterparts no longer a priority?

When I was a young education reporter, I favoured the unfolding comprehensive revolution as a great opportunity to close the attainment gap that kept so many people back.

The attainment gap in A-levels started circa 2001 (not that long ago).

"As a result, there is a considerable cost attached to this attainment gap identified in relation to minority ethnic students."