Free schools built in mainly middle-class and wealthy areas

poorest white students, study finds underrepresented, such as Michael Gove control over political appointments

Analysis

watershed first 24 free schools approved by the Government states that lean toward the middle class and white working-class students are underrepresented.

Research shows that nearly 10 minute ride around the first wave of free schools is dominated by middle class households, which seems to undermine the claims of the coalition who are training for the families working class. The regions have 57% of richest households, educated and professionals from the English average of 42.8%. There is also a higher proportion than the average Asian owners in the catchment areas of the free school - 5.3% - compared to 1% in England as a whole. Only 29.1% are classified as "distressed" or "moderate means" compared to 36.9% for the country.

white households are underrepresented. Areas are 64% white, compared to 87% for the nation as a whole, although it may be that the first wave of free schools is essentially urban

Education Secretary Michael Gove said schools are free to make good the deficiencies of the education system, including a concentration of the lowest in schools "our poor cities and towns."

The analysis is based on census data and data collected by the sellers. Patrick Tate, of CACI, a market research firm that conducted the survey by The Guardian, said the areas were populated by "middle-class suburb who know the value of education."

• The watersheds used in this analysis may not reflect the actual distribution of students in the first wave of free schools - some of which will be even. The two schools with catchment areas are also rich with the smallest number of households. Priors of the free school in Warwickshire is less than 700 households in 10 minutes from the school. However, these households, 94% are classified as "winners" with a high average household income of over £ 50,000.

Rachel Wolf, director of the New Schools Network (NSN), the charity which provides advice and guidance to the creation of free schools, said: "Schools are set free in place for two reasons - to help children of poor performance or where there are currently. The biggest crisis is in London and the Southeast, and it is both middle-class neighborhoods and private. These two different patterns are the result of the overall situation seems confused. "He added that groups requesting the opening of free schools in September 2012 are" very focused "on disadvantaged areas.

A spokesman for the Department of Education, said: "Considering about 1,500 residents who live near the place where the first free schools will be based, half the schools will be within 30% of the most poor communities of England.

so many free schools opening in September have been put in place for passionate teachers want to support the poorest students in the communities where the outcomes and aspirations have been low for generations. These include schools of Bradford, Edmonton and Birmingham. Many are already a success. "

Andy Burnham MP, the shadow Education Secretary, wrote to Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell, the majority of senior officials from Britain, asking him to reconsider the price of £ 500 000 to NSN by the Ministry of Education. Burnham letter comes after the Guardian published an email from a trusted Gove calls for delivery of "cash without delay."

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