This article presents the authors' response to the Comment by Gerald Grace on their paper "Religious schools in London: school admissions, religious composition and selectivity". The Comment is a useful contribution to the academic and policy debates about religious schools and the role that empirical research can play. The authors are…

This paper is concerned with segregation and school selectivity in secondary schools with a religious character in London, England. Analyses of the characteristics of pupils at religious and non-religious schools reveal that the former tend to cater predominantly for pupils from particular religions and/or denominations and ethnic groups, so…