Poor white pupils have become least likely to succeed at school, report finds When he unveils the report, the first on the subject for 10 years, on Thursday, he will point out that poor white British pupils have become the lowest performing ethnic group and that the gap between their achievements and others' has widened. He has previously warned that the nation needed to "worry about those parts of the country where youngsters aren't achieving as well as they should, and therefore can't get jobs in the knowledge-based economy." He added: "Where those youngsters aren't getting jobs, then they will be attracted to organisations like the English Defence League, and we need to worry about that as a society." Although the gap between the richest and poorest pupils in cities is closing, the report finds that the gulf across the country remains "stubbornly wide." It shows that since 2007, the attainment of poor white British pupils has improved by only 13 percentage points against 22 percentage points for Bangladeshi pupils of similar backgrounds.