Native English speakers have fallen behind the children of immigrants in GCSE maths and English, an official analysis has found.

According to the latest data from the Department for Education, 43.2 per cent of native English speakers gained grades 9-5 in English and maths in 2019, compared to 43.8 per cent their peers who speak English as an additional language.

Native speakers were also outperformed by their non-native speaking peers in 2017. The figures also show that white pupils are the least likely to enter for the eBacc subjects when sitting GCSEs.

Just 37.5 per cent of white teenagers enter for the award, which is the lowest proportion out of all other ethnic groups.

The EBacc was established in 2010 by the former education secretary Michael Gove in a bid to reverse the "dumbing down" of GCSEs. In order to obtain the award, students must obtain five A*-C or numeric grades 9-4 in maths, English, science, history or geography, and a modern language.