The latest figures show that just 44 per cent of children on free school meals achieve a good level of development in the EYFS Profile assessments, compared with 62 per cent of other children.
However, since 2007 the gap between children on free school meals and other pupils has narrowed.
In 2010 just 40 per cent of children on free school meals attained a good level of development, and in 2007 this was just under 30 per cent.
The Department for Education statistics give a more detailed breakdown of the EYFS profile results published in October, which showed that the number of children achieving a good level of development at the end of the EYFS, had risen from 46 per cent in 2007, and 56 per cent last year to 59 per cent this year.
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