Britain's Olympic athletes bridge the class divide Figures from the 2008 Beijing Olympics appeared to back up Mr Cameron's claim, showing that 37 per cent of British medal winners were privately educated. However, The Sunday Telegraph's new figures are more up to date and cover a broader range of athletes. The findings suggest that efforts to improve state school pupils" participation in sports traditionally associated with the private sector are paying off. Only seven per cent of children are educated privately. Out of the 47-strong rowing team, traditionally seen as a public school sport, 20 went to state schools and 19 went to private schools, while the men's gymnastics team is made up entirely of athletes from state schools. The single most prolific school was the private Millfield Senior School, in Somerset, which has produced five members of Team GB. Peter Wilson, 25, a shooter; 19-year-old James Disney-May, a swimmer; Helen Glover, 26, a, rower and fencer Sophie Williams, 21 were all educated at the school. Shot putter Carl Myerscough is also a former pupil. The 32 year-old was given a two year drugs ban in 1999 but can compete in the Olympics for the first time this summer after the British Olympic Association was forced to drop its ban on athletes with previous doping violations. Fees at Millfield are £31,260 a year for boarders and £21,075 for day pupils. The most prolific state school was Coleraine Academical Institution, a boys grammar school in Northern Ireland, which has three former pupils on Team GB. They are brothers Peter and Richard Chambers, 22 and 27, and fellow rower Alan Campbell, 29.