Secondary School Attendance The table indicates a rate of pupils attending four differents types of secondary schools: the Specialist schools, the grammar, the voluntary-controlled and the community schools; between 2000 and 2009. A period of 9 years. Overall, the rate of attendance in scpecialist, grammar and voluntary-controlled schools decreased over the period, whereas the rate of pupils who attend the community schools increased. In 2000, the voluntary-controlled schools were the most most popular among pupils with an attendance rate of 52%. This was far higher than for the other types of schools montioned, with 12% each for the specialist and community scchools and 24% for the grammar schools. But, throughout the periode, the voluntary-controlled schools became less popular, and in 2009 its attendance rate decreased to 20%, a little less than the grammar schools in 2009 which the attendance rate also decreased along the period from 24% to 12%. The specialist school also experienced a drop in rate but not a significant one, from 12% to 10%. 245 words In sharp contrast to this, the community schools which was one of the less popular provider of education among pupils in 200, with a rate of 12% as the specialist schools, rose in popularity to reach a rate of almost 3 times higher in 5 years and to finish with a pretty much higher rate of 58%, 6% higher than the voluntary-controlled schools in 2000. Which is almost a 500% of growth in rate on a overall period of 9 years.