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The table shows the Proportions of Pupils Attending Four Secondary School Types Between Between 2000 and 2009.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The table given above illustrates the percentages of students attending four secondary school types during the first decade of 21st century. Overall, its quite apparent that the number of students attending community schools followed a significant increasing trend until the end of the period. On the other hand, the other types of schools showed a decreasing inclination from 2000 to 2009.

To begin, the percentage of students, educated in community schools, was in minority in the first years of 2000's. In contrast, the rate of these schools was in a sharp upward trend between 2005 and 2009. It increased by 20 percent and reached almost a third in 2005, and afterwards the number of students at community schools topped the list with more than half at the end of the period.

In dramatic contrast to the percentages of educated students in community schools, the attendance in other three types of school declined in importance. First, voluntary-controlled schools had the highest attendance rate, just over a half; however, the number of students in these schools decreased by more than half from 2005 to 2009. Similarly, educated students in grammar schools went down sharply in 9 years and fell down to 12 percentage. Specialist schools also decreased steadily and finished the period at one in ten proportion.